The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1870-04-21
WHY MANY WIVES FADE.

SJ P0Ae1 AAo10oo "Oucu JOU
zee in tho West, and il the East, too,
for that matter. Young, fresh looking
women marry, and in five years you
would scarcely recognize them, while
their husbands look as fresh as on the
day Of their wedding.
One cause Of this is complicated
housekeeping. When a man UNDER
takes ! business, he fads learned men
ready to assist him; be knows what
there is to do, aud secures help accord
'ogly. A young woman gees to house.
keeping very often without any help at
all, OF perhaps with one awkward girl.
There are three meals to get every
day-that means cooking; and then
come the dishes to be washed after ev-
cry meal. 1t would take about forty
i've pieces for breakfast and supper,
and seventy for dinner, for family of
lve-one hundred and sixty pieces
to be carried from the dining-room to
the kitchen every day, and washed and
carried back. 1t you have six rooms
io 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 a week, then, is bread.making,
twice q week yeast making, one day
washing, one day ironing, all your PAN
tries and safes to be washed out once q
week, dairy-work to attend to, besides
iunumerable jobs ic the way of pre-
serving, jelly-makiug, picking, curing
hams, putting down pigs feet, looking
over and nipping off your apples twice
in winter, and making hogshead cheese,
minoe-mcat, a thorough use.cleauing
twice year, then sewing, on dresses,
aprons, shirts, drawers, gowns, ETC., By
dozens.
Then, supposing the house-keeper
has baby AN average six months
old baby weighs about eighteen pounds.
Suppose 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, while carrying the bundle Of
baby about in her left.
Who is it that says there is nothing
in gymnastics, equal to the endurance of
mothers arms? Even when tho
days l.bor is accomplished, and she
goes to bed, she she still holds her ba-
by, aud does not sleep souudly for fear
Of rolling on it or its getting uncover
ed; she must attend to its wants sew
eral times in the night, and must be in
a constrained position for fear Of dis
turbiog it.
I have heard women say, they would
give almost anything for good night
of undisturbed sleep, "with no Care on
their mind" Then, in the morning,
up and at it again. Don't you see Why
women get pale, and Why they ale
sometimes cross, and how their hus-
bands wonder that their wives don't
look pretty and dress we'll, and enter
ttsin them as they did before they were
married?
| The wives don't reason on the mat
ter; they think It is all tho mans
fault, and then they turn cross, and so
things 60 at skies aud sevens, aud this
is the place where womau's rights
should be taken hold OF. I don't think
voting would help that very much ; wo-
mans labor should be made = study
In the first place, men must realize
that it is 4 great labor to keep house,
A great many women sink down un-
der the weight. Then everybody says,
"Poor thing, she always Was . weakly
good-for-nothiog creature;" and tn
"roor thing has been doing moro 70
the last ten years than two wome'
ought to do.
~Aud in tho second place, the vii
should b the esoknowlsdgsd and recognizes
. legal equal Of tho husband, and then it vii
begin to DO understood that one member q
the married firm should have tie help sh
= needs In her department Of work, just .
!. much o. the other in his store. shop. count
ins-roou or foundry Fors housekeepe
now-ardays, can no mere carry on th
complicated business OF housekeeping, sir
misunderstanding, Washing, ironing
: scrubbing, sewing, baby tending, ETC., :
and not break down from overwork, tha
q man can carry on the business Of me,
chant, macbinist, farmer. etc.,. without q
sistsnce. and not DO responsible for tn
|. sin Of suicide.-GEd Won. Journal
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