The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1870-12-01
How Wives Fade.

How many pale, Iileless women you
see 10 the West, and 10 The East. Too.
for that matter! Young, fresh booking
women marry, and in FIVE or ten years
you can scarcely recognize them, while
their husbands look as well as on lie
day Of their Wedding One cause Of
this is complicated housekeeping
When man undertakes business. he
finds learned meu ready to assist him
he knows what there is to do, and Sc.
cures help accordingly. A young
woman goes to housekeeping very often
without any help ut all, or perhaps with
one awkward girl, like the wife In this
respect. There are three meals to get
every day-tbat means cooking; aud
then come the dishes to be washed after
each meal 1t would take about forty,
five pieces for breakfast aud supper.
and seventy FIVE for dinner for a faulty
Of fye--one hundred aud sixty Eve
pieces to be carried from the Kitchen TO
the diningroom every day. washed aud
carried back. III you have six rooms
in your house there is one le be tho
roughly swept aud cleaued daily. besides
brushing up the others, making beds,
brioging in wood and carrying water.
Twice a week there is bread making.
twice a week yeast making, one day
washing, one day ironing, pantrics and
safes to be washed out ance week.
dairy work to be attended to, besides
innumerable jobs in the why Of pre-
serving, jelly.making, pickling, curing
hams, putting down pigs feet, looking
o'er apples twice in the winter, and
making hogshead cheese, mince meat,
a thorough house cleaning twice year,
then sewing on dresses, aprons, shirts,
'lrawers, gowns, &c, by the dozen.
Then supposing the housekeeper has
baby-an average six months old
baby, that weighs about eighteen
pounds. Suppose she has this child ia
her arms thirty times day, Ga cross
infant is taken up more frequently
aud often she is obliged to work with
the right arm whilst carrying the bnr
den of baby about with the left. Who
rs IL that says there is nothing 10 gym
nasilcs equal TO the endurance Of
mothers arms ? Even when The day's
labor is accomplished, aud she goes to
bed, she still holds her baby, aud does
not sleep soundly for fear of rolling on
1t or It's getting uncovered; she must
attend to It's wants several times 10 the
night, aud must be in constrained
condition for fear Of disturbing it..
| have heard women say they would
give almost anything for night of
undlsturbed sleep, with no care on the
mind" Then in the morning up aud
at it again. Don't you see why women
get pale, and why sometimes little
cross, and how their husbands wonder
that their wives don't look pretty aud
dress we'll, and entertainshem as they
did before they were marriedg
The wives don't reason on the mat
ter they think il all the mems fault,
and then they turn cross, aud SO things
go ut skies aud seyens-and this is the
place where woman's rights should be
taken hold of. / don't think yotinc
would help that very much; woman's |
labor should be made duty. In the
hrsl place, men must realize that il is a |
great labor to keep house A great
many women sink down under the
weight; then everybody says Poor |
thing, she always was weakly, good |
TOR nothing creature J" and the .'poor
thing has been doing more for the |
past ten years than two women ought |
to have done.