The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1858-11-11

holy and perfect, is in contradiction to
the necessities Of human nature. Idle
ness was never yet the parent Of happi- !
ness.
That the cares Of home are all of that
drudging character which degrades |
women We need not deny. just so
long as love, patience, charity, kindness,
forbearance, self-denial, help to beauti-
fly and strengthen the human heart, just
so long will home be the shelter of the
loveliest characters. 1t is true that the
mother Of a family is generally, except
in the homes of the wealthy, overworked
and dragged down by so many duties
that she cannot be the cheerful and JOY
GUS wife that she would love to be-
Here is an evil. But it cannot be be-
lieved that the only remedy is in destroy
ing home entirely. In the FIRST place,
the mother should be fitted for the
place she occupies as carefully as the
merchant or mechanic is educated to his
business, With a thorough knowledge
of the requirements Of a household, and
with skill to govern and control, let the
means then be placed in her hands to
do it we'll, and there need be no such
drudgery as to break her health and
spirits.
That a wife can be mother, mistress,
lady, nurse and maid-of-all- work, is i'm
possible. She should have help. And
so long as there is such a body Of un-
married women to be provided for, what
safer or more comfortable work can they
find than under the order of the mis-.
tresses of honest Here they can learn
what will be of great value to them, if
ever they assume like possibilities
As long as there are uneduoated classes
of men and women, stout and bred to
toll, so long will there be those who
will be glad to do the menial labor Of
household for the bread which they are
not fitted otherwise to earn. We insist
that one great and ruling reason of the
perplexities and cares Of homes, is be-
cause the help is so deficient. If the
same system of apprenticeship was de-
manded of hOuse-servants that is neccs-
sary to fit workmen for trades, we should
have less of disordcred and distracted
homes. A good deal more system in the
training both of mistrosses and maids
would effect a world of reform. A
wife would be ashamed Of her husband
if he was incompetent to overlook the
affairs Of his counting.room, but she
thinks it no shame to confess that she
doesn't know how to superintend her
servants, and that they will not obey
her orders. A pretty state Of affairs we
should have, if men were as incapable
This idea may not be so romantic at first
glance, as the fancy that she is a queen,
and need not trouble her head about
duties, but she may believe us, that ii
is the only idea which will result in
sound and abiding happiness, and an
honorable old age.
We believe that another great cause
of domestic misery is the continued
bearing of children, when the father is
unable to supply necessary help, or tc
, suitably provide for and educate his
. children. IF this matter were regard,
ed in a more conscientious light, the
amount Of universal poverty and suf
ering would be vastly lessened. But
: OF this we have not space to speak IN
this brief article.
Again, all daughters, fully as muci
as the sons, should be provided with q
trade, calling or profession, by which
they can support themselves; and they
should be considered first and not las
in all wills and legacies, for the reason
/ that their cOmpensations are smaller
, No woman should be tempted to MARI,
by the sad fact that she cannot provide
for herself independently; and no wild
/ ow should ask in despair-'What can
do to supply the wants of my helples
little ones2" We believe all these re
forms could be brought about withou
. any such fatal revolution as the Reform
ers propose.