LOIS WAISBROOKER. ANTIOCH, CAL.
Eighty Years Young and a Human Dynamo.
In reply to your request I would say that I was born in the lower strata of life. My father worked by the day or by the job to support his family. My mother was a quiet retiring woman who died at the age of thirty-six. I have no noted ancestry. I have worked in people’s kitchens year in and year out when I never knew what it was to be rested. Finally I added enough to the little schooling I received in childhood to enable me to meet the requirements of a country school over fifty years ago.
While thus teaching I learned a lesson I have never forgotten. A new edition of Adams’ arithmetic was brought into the school containing eight pages of added examples, and my first work was to solve them, which I did all but one, and oh the weary hours I spent upon that. Neither could I find any one who could solve it for me, the county superintendent and a college educated gentleman both failing to do so.
One Sunday evening as I was looking into the fire and thinking, not of God and heaven, but of that problem, all at once I saw the law involved, the rule under which it came. I turned to one of my pupils, the son of the lady where I boarded, and said:
“Charlie, please take your arithmetic and slate turn to such an example, set it down and work it out so and so.”
The problem was solved. I had no more question as to the result than I had of my own existence, and I knew he would work it out quicker than I could, for I so often blundered in multiplying and dividing. That blundering propensity pertains to more than the handling of figures in arithmetical problems, and under the disability I have staggered through life, but ever since I began to, think independently of Christian teaching I have been studying the problem of society, and fully believe I have found the principle involved. It is that and not my personality which I wish to get before the minds of the thinkers of this age, that they may work out the problem while I go hence.
MRS. WAISBROOKER’S BOOKS.
Address Antioch. Calif.
My Century Plant — So called because so much in advance of the times that only thinkers will appreciate.
Shows the law of regeneration, of materialization, the root of church power, and how to free the earth from sex disease. A remarkable book. Price $1.00.
Perfect Motherhood; or Mabel Raymond’s resolve — This work shows the conditions of motherhood under the present influences of society. A prominent thinker writes: “It is not only one of the most interesting, but one of the most instructive books I have ever read.” Price $1.
A Sex Revolution — This book does not treat of sex as such. It simply reverses the position of the sexes for the time being, bringing woman to the front. The evils of our economic system are graphically illustrated, that woman may observe her true position. Paper. Price 25 cents.
[To-Morrow, October 1906]
