The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-09-23
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A lady correspondent NJ the West, puts
the following question:
In your reply to the Southern lady who
had determined 70 DO her own work-after
speaking Of the arranged kitchen-yoU add:
Fitted out with these appliances, woman
in good health aui without small children.
can often do her cwn work with less worry
without servant, than "ith one. Now,
here let ne ask: What would q woman du
with very fen of these appliances, aud six
or eigEt small ch!Idreu-say ten years cid.
In those essays, | have met with a good
many things that coincide with nv expert
cRcc ny tlinkinss, plarnirgs, and doings--
aud yet when have read them through,
have felt as though there was something
wanting. y wish came up that some one
who had six or eight small children to care
for and do for, in addition to her other du-
ties, would write on the subject.
1t seemed 70 ne might learn many les
sons. l wish to make my system OF house
keeping as good a. | can under present cir
cumstanCes, But for want 0: such paper,
l intend TO make the most of those pub
lshed.
As tie woman with eight small children
is likely to be busy for some time, we will
no help 1t is 4 hard case, and requires
considerable pLilosoph Y, and some pieiy, to
get along with smoothly. Do not despair
Your case might be worse In two particulars: {:
you might have 10 children at all, and you
might have more. We know OF & woman
who has twenty-five, all comely and doing
well. The saddest people we know Of are
childless husbands and wives, and the most
cherries homes are those where there is no
cradle to rock, and no playthings 10 put up
when evening comes. Better dozen than
none. You need the education which will
come of training them to thrifty and virtu-
GUS habits. Do not doubt for a moment that
they will live, grow up, aud be useful and
happy, and that they will all rise up aud
call you blessed. The kind Providence that
has given them being, has a work for them
to do, and will in some way provide for then
training. Do not acOT7y. Worry kills a
great many more people than work. There
must necessarily be q different standard Of
attainment in such home, from that which
prevails where money and servants are plen-
~. There can not be SO many or so fine
dresses, playihings, books and alnusemeats.
They can not be kept in such absolute cieau-
l!ness and order, as if each child had a nurse,
and governess devoting her whole time to
their education. If you do the best you can
under the circumstances, duty is discharged
a matter of thanksgiving.
Look at the Sammy Side-There is such
side in every lot in life. Most children grow
up in homes where there are no servants,
and turn out passably well. Men and wo-
men Of the highest culture and social posi-
tion, more often than otherwise, began life
in this condition, and the early habits Of self
help and industry there formed. determined
their characters and success. To be born in
affiuence is generally calamity. The chill
dren OF the rich are most appropriately OBJ
jects of compassion. What shall be done
for such, to make them useful and happy,
is much more difficult problem to solve
than the proper training of the children Of
the poor. The men who make our laws and
mould public opinion, as a rule, grow up
under the necessity Of labor. Their mothers
filed the offices Of nurse, cook, aud laundress
in their homes, and to this day it is the hon
est conviction Of these distinguished men,
that their mothers were the best v omen and
the most savory cooks in the world.
Cultirdte Self Help IN Your Children.-
Mothers sometimes err in excessive tender
ness and devotion. Children love occupation
and will have it. The passion for dressing
dolls may as well be turned to dressing
something substantial. A little glrl can soon
learn to dress and wasE herself, and then to
perform these offices for her younger broth
erS and sisters. Play should never be fore
stalled, but it may be so judicicusly mixed
mixed up with healthful abors that the toll
will not be irksome. The boy may as well
pull on his first boots, as have another do it
for him. If he is taught that it is manly
to help himself and keep his clothes and
and person clean. he will glory in the use of
brushes for the hair, the clothes, and boots.
He will soon learn TO measure manhood by
usefulness, and not by the amount of dirty
work other people DO f him. Some peo-
pie, indeed get to much out OF their chill
dren. but that is not the tendency or peril
of American society. They can be made
much more helpful with pleasure and profit
to themse'v S. and to the world.
Buy Labor SaUing DIachiReS-A large
part of the labor in the family can be saved
by them, and they pay for themselves many
times every year. 1t is difficult to see how
a housekeeper can get along without them.
Most people are too poor to do without them.
They save what is more precious than money
health and life. We forbear to say more,
lest there should be nothing left for the wo-
man with the eight small children to say.
We yield the floor until she speaks.