The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1877-11-09
Grne Nortberner.


t;r,lv destitute of business habits Thos,
thar are not so are such a minority
among the whole number that they
hardly count at all. Now and then W,
meet with one, to be sure, who is wha
she should be in this respect but sht
is so phenomenal as to make US only
more plainly aware of the deficiency o
her sisters.
Many women owe this deficiency t.
the circumstances that have made them
dependent on fathers and brothers anc
husbands who have taken all the care
of their money matters, have obliged
them TO render 40 account of receipts
and expenditures, aud have only wished
them to keep the house cheerful and
themselves attractive. Some owe it tC
an inherent laziness and dislike of any
sort Of trouble, and another portion owe
it to silly fancy that they are more
pleasing in u state OF soft subsection and
ignorance and dependence, and that to
have any system or any knowledge OF
business might make them appear strong
minded and able to take care of them.
selves and they will tell you, if you
bring them down to fine point, that a
woman's charm is in her helplessness
With these idols we have nothing to do
and but little with those whose indo.
hence makes them willing to put any
unnecessary burden-be it so slight a
one as that of keeping and overlooking
an account--upoa male members OF the
family; for if they are really so idle as
that, they are probably too idle to be of
much Use in any other way, and exhor.
tatioa would be wasted on them.
But those who are merely thought.
less, or whose attention has never been
directed 70 the subject, may fluid their
profit by considering in what manner
they can become more systematic and
more able 10 face the world, should they
ever fad themselves required to do so.
OF course We do not intend by this a
recommendation 10 them necessarily TO
launch out into business, to open shops,
enter professions, or create new indus.
tries, unless outer pressure advise or in
ner pressure impel but We would mere.
iy say that they would be wise to en-
courage in themselves some of the
methodical habits Of those who are al.
ready in shops and professions. If faith.
er and brother and husband can be out
Of bed, can have shaved aud bathed and
dressed add breakfasted and have gone
Oft to business at nine clock in the
morning, why should the female mem.
bers of the family who are in good health
come dawdling down an hour later, and
in their crimps and curl.papers ? The
same habit on their side of the house
would have had them out of bed early,
and decently attired, beginning to set
the room in order, and all the earlier
able justiably to sit down to fancy.
work, drawing music, or books, where
there is 10 occasion for more laborious
occupation. For we must acknowledge
that in rightfully improving their estate
in any intellectual direction they also
enrich the world, as their fathers and
brothers do, and enrich it much in the
degree in which they carry system and
order into their endeavor. And wheth.
er their occupation be intellectual or
domestic, if they are ever thrown upon
their own resources, as the saying goes,
il will be all the easier to them for any
systematic, that is to say, industrious .
and precisely timed habits-in other
words, business habits-that they may
have thus early established at home.
The housekeeper who has no business
habits makes but poor appearance be.
side the one who has them. The latter
has fixed hour and day for every do.
nestle duty the former has things done
when she thinks of it. The one replen-
shes before an article is exhausted; the
other runs round and borrows. The
'ne knows just how long an article ought
20 last the other is robbed before her
ace and eyes. The one makes her
rags pay for her tins" her grease
pay for her soap the other has to give
eady money for both commodities.
She has her house cleaning done 10 May; I.
With the other it always bangles along ,
nto July. The one can see visitor
It almost any hour Of the day; the !,
'ther has to hurry and skurry to make /.
lerset presentable. The one always :
las something toothsome in reserve if
IN unexpected guest must be asked to !
ca the other has nothing but an apollo. 3
". With the one all goes smoothly,
loiselessly, pleasantly, and with smil-
ne face; with the other the jar is al.
ways evident, the house and its mistress
md It's servants are forever in a snarl. !,
The che has business habits; the other Q
las no habits at all. s
We have heard of a lady whose hus c
band, obliged to leave the city, deposit. L
ID IN her hands check book for some l
i've hundred dollars, with which to make b
,ertain purchases. On his return he "
asked her If she had had enough money. s.
upon which the charming little creature l
answered that she not only had Ii
, great plenty, but that she had bouobt "