The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1869-09-10
why Many Wives Fade.

iioW ibpny pdic, iiltitSS WOnitH YOU
see in the West, and in the East, too,
for that matter. Young, fresh looking
women marry, and in five years you
scarcely recognize them, while their
husbands look as fresh as on the day of
the wedding.
One cause of this is complicated house
keeping. When man undertakes
business, he finds learned men ready to
assist him he knows what there is to
do, and secures help accordingly. A
young woman goes to house keeping
very often without any help at all, or
perhaps with one awkward girl.
There are three meals to get every
day-that means cooking; and then
comes the dishes to be washed after
each meal. 1t would take about forty
five pieces for breakfast and supper,
and seventy for dinner for family of
five, one hundred and sixty-fve pieces
to be carried from the dining room to
tho kitchen every day, and washed and
carried back. Ifyou have six rooms in
your house, there is one room to be
thoroughly swept and cleaned daily,
besides brushing up the others, making
beds, bringing in wood and carrying
water.
Twice week then is brcad.making /;
twice a week yeast making, one day
washing, one day ironing, all your pan
tries and safes 10 be washed out once u
week, dairy work to attend to, besides
innumcrablc jobs in the way of prcserv-
ing, jelly making, pickeling pork, cur
ing hams, putting down pigs feet, look
ing over and nipping Off your apples
twice in winter, and making hogshcatl
cheese, mincc-meat, n thorough house
cleaning twice II year, then sewing on
dresses, aprons, shirts, drawers, gowns,
&C., by dozens.
Then supposing the house keeper has
Il baby, an average six months old baby
weighs about eighteen pounds. Say
she has this child in her arms forty
times day, Ia cross infant is taken up
much more frequently, and often she
works with the right arm, while carry
ing the bundle of baby about in her
left. Who is it that says there is moth.
ing in gymnastics equal TO the endur.
ance of mothers arms. Even when
the days labor is accomplished and sht
goes to bed, she still holds her baby
and does not sleep soundly for fear o
rolling on 1t or its getting uncovered
she must attend to its wants severa
times in the night, and must be in ,
constrained position for fear of disturb
ing it.
L have heard women say they woult
give anything for one night of undis
turbed sleep, with no care on thei
mind. Then in the morning up and a
it again. Don't you see why womel
get pale, and why they are sometime
, little cross, and why their husband
, wonder that their wives don't loo
nrnttv-anl .dsoor-, sy9lJ .noy' ,eeIt5 mai
ried?
The wives don't reason on the matte
they think it is all the mans fault, an
} then they turn cross, and 50 things s
: at skies and sevens, and this is the plac
| when woman's rights should be take
hold of. I don't think voting woul
; help that very much; woman's labt
should be made a study. In the fir
place men must realize that it is a grea
labor to keep house.
: A great many women sink down III
, der the weight, then everybody say
t "poor thing, she always was weak
e good for nothing creature" and IL
! "poor thing" has been doing moro f'
3 the last ten years than three womt
I ought to do.