ething about the inequalities of the world. I wanted to make other women feel their responsibility; organize their instinctive mother love to do away with evils that prey on childhood, like slums, undernourishment, child labour and drunkenness. I felt that women could abolish these if they wanted to. That's why I started by joining the W.C.T.U. (Womens Christian Temperance Union) (Nellie McClung 1945)
             While her children were in their early teens Nellie would tour around Canada and make speeches on temperance. While she was away she had to leave her children with their father and hired help. In those days a wife leaving her young children at home didn't happen and the public made sure she knew their opinion on the matter with headlines like "Nellie's Neglected Child." Nellie never let it upset her, she even found it amusing. Once she caught a man trying to impress a few ladies with a story about how his sister has to watch Nell
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