Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1870-09-23
HOW MANF WIVES FADE.

How many pale. lfeless women you
see in the West, and in the East, too, for
that matter Young. fresh looking women
marry, and in five or ten years you can
scarcely recognized them, while their
husbands look as well rs on the day of
their wedding.
One cause OF this is complicated house
keeping. When man undertakes II bus
mess, he finds learned men ready to assist
him; he knows what there is 10 do and Sc
cures help accordingly. Ayoung woman
goes TO housekeeping very often Without
any help ut all, or PERHAPS with one awh.
ward girl.
There are three meals to get every day
that means cooking; and then comes
he dishes to be washed after each meal.
1t would take about Iorty-iive pieces for
breakfast and supper, and seventy for
dinner Tor a family of live-one hundred
and sixty-ive pieces To- be carried from
the dining room TO the kitchen every day.
washed and carried back. il you have
six rooms in your house there Is one to
be thoroughly swept and cleaned daily,
besides brushing the others, making beds.
bringing in wood and carrying water.
Twice week there is bread making,
twice week yeast making, one day
washing one day ironing, ,all your pantries
aud safes to be washed out once week,
dairy work to be attended TO, besides in
Vulnerable Jobs in the way OF preserving,
Jelly making, picking, curing hams,
putting down pigs feet, looking over and
npping off your apples twice in winter,
and making hogshcad cheese, mincc
meat, thorough house cleaning twice
year then sewing Oh dresses, aprons.
shifts, drawers, gowns, &C., by The
dozen.
Then supposng The housckccpcr has a
baby-an average six months old baby
that weighs about eighteen pounds. Sup
pose she has this child in her arms thirty
times day (a cross infant is taken up
more frequently and often she is obliged
TO work with the right arm whilst the
burden of 4 baby about in the left.
Who is il that says there is nothing in
gymnastics equal to the endurance OF
mothers arms? Even when the days IL
Dor is accomplished, and she goes 10 bed,
she still holds her baby, and does not
sleep soundly for fear OF rolling on 1t or
its getting uncovered; she must attend to
its wants several times in the night, and
mus. be in constrained position tor fear
of distuh hing it.
have heard women say they would
give almost anything for night Of un-
disturbed sleep, "with 10 care on the
mind" Then in the morning up and 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 and dress well.
and entertain them rs they'lid before they
were married?
The wives don't reason on the matter;
they think il all the mans fault, and then
they turn cross, and So things 20 at skies
and scvens, anil thi, is the place where
woman's rights should be taken hold OF.
don't think voting woulc help that very
much; woman's labor should be made
study. In the first place men must real
izc that it is a great labor 10 keep house.
A great many women sink down nnder
the weight; then everybody says:
Poor thing. she always was weekly.
good-for. nothing creature; and the poor
thing has been doing more for the past
ten years than two women ought"