Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-01-14
What Makes a Woman Truly a
HeIpmeet to her Husband.
BY OLIVE LOGAN.

Without love as q first plank in
the platform there is no use what
ever III discussing the question. The
platform won't hold together with
out that plank, whatever other tim
Der there be in it, "
But love is not enough.
1t is very sad, but it is true-and
as trite as true-that ''love won't
boil the pot;;' and what is worse, it
won't put that into the pot which
makes it worth the boiling.
A boiled pot wouldn't be very
nice eating without "fixin's."
The beggar who made delicious
soup, jnst by boiling stone in his
pot, had to put in little salt to sea-
son it, and bit of beefto give it a
flavor, and a few vegetables to tone
it-up. I'll 1H':z- 5l-
So, if even love would ''boil the
pot" love would not be sufficient,
unless it would fill the pot, too.
- Love is the prime requisite to sue
cessful endeavor on woman's part
to be her husbands true helpmeet,
but love alone is very far from being
all that is required. sr9
There are countless thousands of
women who love their husbands tru-
-ly, aud who are no more helpmeets
to them than if they were wooden
women, whitfield out with a jack
knife.
the first and greatest misfortune
women have to encounter is that, in
marrying, most men don't ask them
selves whether the object of their
choice is fitted to be- a helpmeet. A
man generally marries because he
wants somebody to love him and
caress him. He also wants his wife
to look pretty, and be bright and
cheerful, that other men may envy
him his possession.
But that sort of thing won't last
through the vicissitude of lifetime.
When years roll ON, and misfor-
tunes come. and the silly loving wife
has become firmly rooted in her
dawdling habits, he savagely turns
on her and reproaches her for not
being helpmeet.
There is nothing but misery for
her, poor creature, after that
Therefore, the other plank in our
platform is this:
To be true helpmeet to her hus-
band the woman must have the
ability to earn her living independ-
emily Of him.
No woman can earn her own liv
ing by baby tending.
I mean, of course, by tending her
own babies. If she adopt the pro-
fession of a nurse, the case may be
different.
When you talk with intelligent
men on the subject of skilled labor,
you find that they have but one
opinion as to the best way Of get
ting work done thoroughly.
They tell you that the man who
is Jack of-all trades is master Of
none.
They tell you that the man who
makes great success in life is the
man who masters one field Of labor
completely-who educates himself
up to the highest point Of skilful-
ness in that field alone.
The best editors in this country
are men who have been bred to their
work in that college of editors-the
printing office.
The worst editors are those men
who have taken up editorship after
having given trial to mercantile life,
or farming, or medicine, and who
will most probably drop editorship
byand-by for the Law, or perhaps
the stage-and do as i'll in these
again, being thorough in none.
1t stands to reason that the best
baby-tender must be the woman
who educates herself specially for
that pursuit.
How many women who become
mothers do this?
And of those women who hare
bent all their energies to perfect
themselves in the art of baby tend
ing, how many can earn their living
by it?
/ once lived in a house with
Young couple who had baby of