This was taken from the Ladies Home Journal, July 1910, but still very much relevant today.

Law-maker or Man-maker?
A woman will often envy a man his chance to go out into the world and make laws. But, in comparison, what is the law-maker to the man-maker?

Which, think ye, will make the better man? The boy who is taught by his mother to pass a wide open saloon...or the boy from his vision every saloon is removed by law?

Which, think ye, would be more practically effective today? Better housekeeping and greater competency in the cooking of man's food by women, making it impossible for the saloon keeper to compete successfully within the home...or no-license laws as enacted by men?

Which can do the greater work today in raising the moral standards of our young people? The mother, at the awakening period in a child's life with the child at her knee and kneeling beside him at his bed at the close of day when he offers up his petition for help...or the statutes of the State that men have written on the books?

Which brings to the little mind of the child his first realization of what is moral and what is in moral? Is it the law of the State that he cannot read...or the teachings of the mother's voice that the child understands and knows and loves?

Is it the law that man has written that tells the child, "Thou shalt not steal", "Thou shalt not lie"...or is it the mother with the child in her lap after the first piece of sugar has been taken from the bowl or the first untruth spoken?

Man in the world writing it's laws is not to be compared with women in the home making it's laws!

Born of woman as a babe...
Taught by woman as a boy...
Loved by woman as a man...

He--the Law-Maker; but...
She--the Man-Maker!

*special thanks to our friend, Carla Butaud, for passing this gem along. Happy Mother’s Day!