What can a mother do to save her seven children and herself from an alcoholic, womanizing husband? Emma Schuron, the Iron Mother, made a fateful decision. She threw her husband out of the house. In the early 20th century that act alone made Emma very brave, and made her a single mother, with no job or education. She had to learn the languages of the New York streets, and how to bargain with all the merchants for her daily bread. She had only two weapons...