I don't know exactly what she meant by Nonentity, but guess she meant the
world we all stay in, before we are born into this one.
Aunt Hetty has lost five boys, two by battle and three by licensed saloons,
that makes her talk real bitter, but to resoom. I told Josiah that men
needn't worry about Race Suicide, for you might as well try to stop a hen
from makin' a nest, as to stop wimmen from wantin' a baby to love and hold
on her heart. But sez I, "Folks ort to be moderate and mejum in babies as
well as in everything else."
But Drusilly's husband wanted twelve boys he said, to be law-abidin'
citizens as their Pa wuz, and a protection to the Govermunt, and to be
ready to man the new warships, if a war broke out. But her babies wuz
real pretty and cunning, and she wuz so weak-minded she couldn't enjoy
the thought that if our male statesmen got to scrappin' with some other
nation's male law-makers and made another war, of havin' her grown-up
babies face the cannons. I spoze it wuz when she wuz so awful tired she
felt so.
You see she had to do every mite of her housework, and milk cows, and make
butter and cheese, and cook and wash and scour, and take all the care of
the children day and night in sickness and health, and make their clothes
and keep 'em clean. And when there wuz so many of 'em and she enjoyin' real
poor health, I spoze she sometimes thought more of her own achin' back than
she did of the good of the Govermunt--and she would git kinder discouraged
sometimes and be cross to him.
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