I may say that I have been fortunate in being able to have good care
and a good doctor. Had I not been able to have it, I should have
certainly lost my life when my still-born child was born. I was very
ill for six weeks after, and I know what an expensive time it was. When
I tell you that I am aunt to forty-seven nieces and nephews, all of the
poor working class, you will understand that I have seen something of
the struggle with poverty at such times, some having to get out and
attend to the home before the child was eight days old. Knowing all
this, I am out to help do all I can to hasten the day when every man,
woman, and child shall have all the good things of life which is theirs
by right.
_Wages average £1; three children, one still-born._