Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-02-09
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How Many Wives Fade.

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How Many Wives Fade.
How many pale,r lifeless women. YOU
ss6 Il the West, AID inlthe East, too.
for that matter, Young, fresh-looking
women marry and IN five or ten years
YOU can scarcely recognize them, while
their husbands look as well as on the
daYbf their wedding ,.1 sas ~ .sii'....i ,sei
Che cause of this Is complicated
housekeeping. When man under
takes business, he finds learned men
ready to assist him; he knows what
there, is to do, and secures help accord,
inglye Ayoung woman goes to house
Keeping very often without any help at
al ,ior perhaps with one awkward girl.
30 There are three meals to get every
day-that means cooking; and then
Come the dishes to be washed after
each meal. 1t would take about forty
FIVE pieces for breakfast and supper |;
and; seventy for dinner for afamily
! of five; one hundred and sixty
five pieces to be carried from the dining
room to the kitchen every day, washed
and oeafrieds back. If you have six
rooms IN your house, there is one to be
th0rQp8hlyn swept and cleaned daily,
bes1 IS bruslfing up the Others, making
b6ds, bringing in wood and carrying
water.
T9kfietA week there Is bread-making,
twice a week yeast-making, one day
washing, one day ironing, all your
pantries and safes to be washed out
once week, dairy work to be attended
to, besides innumerable jobs in the way
OF preserving, jelly-making, piekling,
curing hams, putting down pigs feet,
looking over and nipping off your ap-
pies twice in winter, and making hogs
head cheese, mince-meat, a thorough
houseoleaqing twice a year. then sew
ing IN dr9sseS, aprons, shirts, drawers,
gowns; DC, by the dozen. = Z = Y - y
Then supposing the house keeper has
a baby-an average six months old
baby that weighs about eighteen
popfkh Suppose she has this child in
her arms thirty times day Ia cross in
FAINT Is taken up more frequently,) and
often she is obliged to work with the
right Qm Fhilst carrying the burden
of a baby Abo1t- n the leff. .%1l-L
Who is it that says there is nothing
in gymnastics equal to the endurance
Of a mother's arms 2 Even when the
days labor is accomplished, and she
goes TO bed, she still holds her baby,
and d. not szeep soundly for fear OF
rolling on h.or its getting Uncovered;
she mnst attend to its wants several
times in the might, and must be in a con.
strained position for fear of disturbing
it. ~ ztJIGzA TE3Tt
have heard women say they would
give almost anything for a night of un-
disturbed sleep, awftif no care on the
minds' 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 as they
did before they were married ?,
The wives don't reason on the mat
ter; they think it all the mans fault,
and then they turn cross, and SO things
goQp at skies and seyens, and this is
tn pRee RARre woman's rights should
be taken hold of don't think voting
would help thatvery much; woman's S
latW yn@A bemafle asthdy In the
first pace, men must realize that it is a
great labor to keep house.
A great many women sink down
under the weight; then everybody
.A4Af 21.lE CHA 0EssgS
Poor fhing, she always was weak
ly, good othing creature;" and the
"po0r thingo has been doing more for
the past ten years than two women
ought.
horrible Sufferings of the Woun-
..,.s, I'D ded French, ,.f....--,
The Cassel correspondent of the Lon
don Tines writes; -
Fl The ether day Iihad most horrible
sight OF human suffering. About 500
prisoners arrived at midnight, on their
way from Frankfort to Stettin, in open
railway trucks, no other carriages being
aYallable. When the train started from
Frankfort in the morning the thermom-
eter was above freezing point, but in
sthBcoEfse Of the day such a sudden
change set in. thatin the evening the
glass marked many degrees below ii.
They were scantily clothed, some them
without great coats, which they had
sold buying tobacco with the money:
others had thin cotton stockings and
wooden shoes; Others again had moth
ing iat all on their feet. Lying in the
same, open trucks which conyeyed
them from Epernay, exposed to the in
tense cold, they were In many in
stances frozen to the boards in their own
hth. One ofthem atleast some peo-
pie speak Of more-was frozen to death.
They were in a most terrible and nifi-
able plight, and the groaning of some
OF the poor sufferers was fearful. After
their arrival they were distributed in
the waiting rooms of the station and in
the barracks, where they received re-
storatives in the shape of coffee. sorn
and meat. Warm clothes. and blank.
sfs.were also giyento many Of them
and they continued their journey after
a astoppage Of fifteen hours, with the eY-
ception ofatw1t tWentv who were sent
10. the Isaxarette. When 1 saw them
there they had first to be bathed. They
were literally swarming with virmip =
Some of them, being Mobiles, were
mere boys Of sixteen and again men