The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1873-10-18

leaned against her fathers shoulder and laid her
white hand softly upon his head, smoothing back
the dark hair, just showing little frost from his
broad manly temples.
A pleasant group was this for the eyes of MIS-.
Lewis, as she came forth from her chamher to
the sitting-room, where she had gone to lay off
her bonnet and shawl and change her dre's -
Well did her husband understand the metning
look she gave him; and warmly did her heart
respond to the smile he threw back upon Der.
"Words fitly spoken are like apples cfgold in
pictures of silver" said Mr.. Lewis, speaking to
her as she came in.
"What do you mean by that?" asked Mary,
looking curously into her fathers face.
"Mother understands" replied Mr.. Lewis,
smiling tenderly upon his wife.
Something pleasant must have happened, P"
said Mary.
Something pleasant? Why doyousay that ?"
asked Mr.. Lewis.
child
'And we have cause to be happy answered
the father, as he drew his arm tightly around
her, Tin having three such good children"
Mary laid her cheek TO his, and whispered: "If
you are smiling and happy, dear .ather, home
will be like heaven"
Mr. Lewis kissed her, but did not reply He
felt rebuke in her words. But the rebuke did
not throw thrill over his feelings; it only gave
a new.strength 70, his purposes. .---.------z,...
DosIr uTSJTTUuS~-..i s.s,tieS. f-..ee a
Of the warmest and the brightest for home" said
Mrs Lewis as she parted with her husband on
the next morning. He kissed her, but did not
promise. The smiles were kept, however, and
evening saw them; though not for the outside
world. Other, and many evenings saw the same
cheerful smiles and the same happy home. And
so would all men be if they would take home
with them the smiling aspect they so often eX-
hbit, as they meet their fellow men in business
intercourse, or exchange words IN passing COM
plments Take your smiles and cheerful words
home with you husbands, fathers and brothers
Your hearts are cold and hard without them.
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THE FUTURE OF Our DAUGHTERS Of
Mrs. Livermore's lecture on the question "What
shall we do with our Daughters p the Davenport
Democrat furnishes full list Of answers, begin
ming in the good old fashion "Teach them to
make shirts teach them to make bread teach
them to wear thick shoes teach them to make
their own dresstS," and SO on, down TO the con-
cuding injunction, 'and then let them marry"
One would think it scarcely needed a prophet
to come out of Davenport to teach these doctrines
as a novelty These excellent precepts have been
applied to woman s case for generations; and yet
from the time the first spinning jenny began to
been brewing that will not be answered so. One
after another of the tasks once accounted pecu-
liarlarly feminine has been removed from her
hands by the resistless progress of machinery, Of
cooperative labor, of the increasing "differen-
tials OF function" which marks our civilization,
and still the work goes on. 1t may reasonably
be asked, now, why our daughters must neces-
sariy be taught to make dresses or shirts when
ready made shirts and dresses are to be bought
in the large manufactures, at scarcely more than
the retail of the cloth Of which they are made
thanks to machinery and cooperative labor. If
the object is merely to fill up the daughters
time, to keep them employed, well and good
If, on the other hand, it is desirable that women
should add their just shares Of value to the
world, should produce as we'll as consume, should
be in the broad sense the helpmeet Of men,
whether married or single, whether in the family
or the world at large then new functions must
be found to take the place of those which are
dropping away from them and till this is settled
we apprehend it will still continue to be ques-
tion "W hat shall we do with our Daughters"