Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-01-15
CEDAR FALLS, JANUARY is, 1895
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"Preach only what you know
said a celebrated divine, TO young
man about to enter the ministry.
4 Write only what you know" j:
advice that may we'll be, preached and
8rracticcd too, particularly by those
iwho occupy the vanguard in the
great, SO called, woman reformation.
! Olive Logan, in All article in the
January number of Pockard's Month
3 N, on the subject of "Wnat Makes a
L Woman Heipmeet to her Husband, "
evidcntly Ietrays want of knowl-
a edge of what she attempts. She adj
yanccs, as ono of the planks i'm her
platform, that "To be true help
meet To her husband woman must
have the ability 10 earn her living
q independently Of him."
u IT Is well, and doubtless wise, that
n woman should be able to do this
but that IL Is her daty, ms she argues,
swhen other responsibilities crowd
1 themselves around her should scarce
Ily Claimed be 10y one of clear thinking
and Judgment. That IL is degrading,
as Olive would term Ii, TO a woman
tito care for her household and aft
5only for those who are capable of no
higher employment" is a statement
i which cannot fail to do incalrulable
damage to those weak minded ones,
4 who, without sufficient mental cali
4 bre to think for themselves, depend
upon their stronger sisters for council
aud direction. ....,.a- ..t
She entirely ignores the true posi-
Elton of woman and the claims which
the child has upon the mother. She
would entrust The care of the young
susceptible heart to the charge of a
servant whose duty it was to attend
to "Bridget's work" while the moth
er was absent attending to n1dniierdu-
i ties aud more retamcrdtiue employ
/ ment. If such were The case in this
country, tell us Olive! what would
be the result upon society, and what
true man would desire that his wife
should neglect the care Of her house
hold to help him provide for the
family. She cites an instance Of
] n young couple where she was board
ing, WHO had baby ten months old.
The father was book-keeper on "a
salary of thirty dollars per week, al d
the mother with the care, only of the
child, found life burden and her
health declining; while with her
knowledge of dress making, che
! might have been earning ten dollars
O week, las Olive would have it,
with the ''drudgery of baby tending"
entrusted to paid servant. She
does not tell US that the duties would
be less burdensome and less destruc-
tive to health To take care of her own
child than TO spend ten hours each
day at The work of dress making.
Regarding IL in the light of dollars
and cents, how could woman, I'M
der such circumstances, assist mate
rally in bearing the expenses Of her
family, after paying three dollars II
week and board TO her servant, to
take the "drudgery" off her hand.
!, The thought is impracticable.
Further from the pen of that gifted
! lady: When "meu will consent to
"do Bridgets work then will. Till
!, "then dent talk TO me about house
excepting and baby-tending, as wo-
"man's proper employment"
She fails TO realize The fact that the
duties devolving upon husband and
wife are, even now, equal. Is it any
more degrading for woman tn care
/ for her family than for the husband
to provide pecuniarily for the same :?
7 We opine not. a.
1t may be the good fortune of Miss
F, Logan to learn some day, by practi-
cal experience, the falsity of the
position she assumes. Till then.
pray save us from such state OF
pandimoneum. ....
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