The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-03-14
FOR THE LADIES.


A fire fly band have clustered
Round an aster's leaf
A royal chief
A driven herd are mustered.
Away behind,
With busy mind,
But step that is light and free.
On which the trace
or a hard days work you see,
Comes the farmer home from toll,
Driving the cows before him;
And the child-eyes, strained at the window
Were the first in the house that saw him.
All would, when the day IL done
And leave my cares behind me,
could have such pair of winsome eyes
Searching the night TO find mel
Two ladies are conversing on the qualities
and dement's OF their own fair sex Said
one, with twinkle in her beautiful blue
eyes, Il have never known but two women
who were really perfect" "Who was the
other?" asked her companion, with a smile
on her fine thin lip.
The Royal Agricultural society offered last
year 1OO-guinea prize for the best managed
farm in the central districts of England.
Twenty-one farms competed for the prize
and one managed by q woman took il. The
judges declared her farm to be an exceed
ingly good example of a we'll managed one,
and in ad ,ance of all the others in point of
productiveness, suitably of live stock, and
general cultivation with view to profit.
Lady Anna ore-Langton, sister of the
duke OF Buckingham, governor of Madras,
said the other day that men in India were to
great extent ruled by the women, who
were very conservative and had great OBJ
lection 10 any improvement in their Gus
toms. The lower class women worked very
hard milling rOllarc NntfinU
and in helping their husbands in bricklay-
ing The natives treated widows very badly;
their clothes and jewels were taken away
from them, and they were made as misera-
bic as possible.
Matilda Joslyn Gage has been a careful
cleaner OF facts in regard to the industrial
occupations OF women, and her Decade
Speech" on the progress of education and
the industrial avocations of woman, pub
lished in Paulina Wright Davis history of
the woman suffrage movement, is full of
valuable information. In this paper she
reports women as gaining a pecuniary sup
port as stenographers, engravers, printers,
telegraphers, photographers, cabinet makers.
engineers, doctors druggists dentists, ocu-
lists, merchants, clerks, bookkeepers, pay
| masters, BARRIERS, real estate agents, insur-
ance agents, etc.
Temple Bar has an interesting article on
1.-THE Influence of Women on Religious
Worship, the Stage, and Literature" in
which the following passage occurs: ''The
notion that the world was made principally
for women, and for those objects which
woman have most at heart, has quickly been
seized upon by managers, and one usually
goes away from the theater with the feeling
that it exists either for the purpose of ex-
hibiting what are called female charms or
| of appealing to those sentiments which are
generally supposed to be of feminine cast
The heroic has been driven from the stage,
and the domestic and sentimental have
usurped the ground it once proudly trod. I"
1t is not now considered to be any part of
the office of the drama to purify by terror. I"
The hour before bedtime is very good
one for the mother to be with her children.
Then she can hear their accounts of the day.
The little things that went wrong in school,
the quarrels with playmates, the lessons that
were hard; and all the happy events, too,
can be told then, and she can give sympathy
and counsel, as it nay seem best. Let no
little heart go uncontrolled to bed. If the
child has been naughty, and mother has
been displeased, let her extend forgiveness,
and kiss il into peace before it goes to sleep.
The last hour of a child's day should be very
near to God. With feeling that mother
loves it, and that the Father above will send
the angels to take care of it, 1t should fall
Quietly III 10 tue SOU SlutlDtIS Vi lIS nlRnb
Time enough for grief and trouble by and
by.
Do not stay in the house too much on
these bright days. Mothers wonder why
they 30 often have headaches, and why their
health fails, and their nerves trouble them.
They are sure they have exercise enough.
So they have; but it is not alwas of the right
kind nor taken in the right way. Sweep
ing, busting, scrubbing, baking putting
l. Ill, u,nll
| but one hour of walking in the open air will
| often give an amount OF strength which
nothing else imparts. Other occupations fa-
| tigue, but there is q tonic and vital energy
| in the fresh, pure air outdoors. Take in
| long breaths, and rest the eyes which have
| been busy in spying out cobwebs and dust
| by letting them look on the blue hills. the
silvery streams and the bare trees lifting
| their graceful branches against the sky. Ii
mother went outdoors more frequently she
would not so often have to lament that she
| had spoken GROSSLY to the children.
Well. Sophronia Ann, I'm glad you've
come A great many things has happened
since you was here in house-cleanin' time.
| You know then / hadn't been near the
Methodist chuIch for nigh on TO q month; (;
| an all Clarence Centre was laughln', an
| a-making fun of our new minister's wife,
| How dreadful they did talk bout that blue
velvet bonnet OF hern! AT last the women
| in the church couldn't stand il no longer; so
| they went to Miss Brown, an they told her
| that people thought she were injurin' an
a-keepin' back the Lords work by a wearin'
sich a wicked. worldly bonnet. An then
says Miss Brown: Ladies', 1 should like a
new bonnet very much. The blue velvet was
my weddin' hat, nearly two years
ago Since then my husband has been so
poorly paid he has not been able to buy me
ANYTHING new. So have been Obliged to
| wear this hat summer aud winter" Now,
Sister Pipkin she had an old black silk apron
| Jest as good as new an she said il the others
would lake hold an help she would have q