The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-11-26
uREsIDE CHAT.


THINK WITH MErHoD. --Under al the
circumstances in which you may be
placed, trying or otherwise, think -
steadily and clearly as your capacity viii
allow you to do; compel your thought
to bring you to some sort Of conclusion,
and then carry out the conclusion with
ont consulting any human being. Clear
thought, continuous thought and silence
all exercised ON the daily triies Of
hfe-these habits, which are none Of
them difficult, will so harden the mind
as in very short period to make it inca
pable of indecision.
Liberal TRAINING. One Of our wisest
public women contends that If mothers
would train their girls as housekeepers.
at the youthful period when girls would
be delighted to learn, they would then
take to housekeeping as naturally as
ommend, however, that instruction
should be confined mainly to domestic
duties, or that marriage should be con-
sidered the principal aim of the fair sex,
but advocates system Of broad and lib
eral tuition which viii fit women for any
of the probable contingencies of life,
render them self-dependent, and fully
develop their varied faculties
A MOTHERS CARE.-No hireling
should be intrusted with the care of
children. A devoted mother says /: 81
devoted myself to the charge of my nr-
sery attended in person to the physi-
cal and mental needs of my young chill
dren. The work was laborious. but it
has repaid me. They are healthy,
brave, honest and frank; they are
cursed with none of the small vices con-
tracted by intimate intercourse with
persons of inferior intelligence and
they are self-sustaining at an early Pc
Rod. Neither pert nor precocious, they
ripen early to judgment and common
sense, and believe that the tilIage Of
my own little field has produced har-
vest worth the labor"
"RIcH" FooD.-Young housskeeper,
as you value health and leisure, don't
waste your time on elaborate cookery.
A greater simplicity in the preparation
of our food would save full day out OF
every week to many house-mother, and
save many dear ones from the rack Of
dyspepsia In later years. "Not one of
mothers children" said lady in mid
die life to me one day, /" but has suffered
agonies from dyspepsia all the result Of
mother s splendid cooking" With proper
dispatch an ample, wholesome and de-
hcious pudding can be made in five min
utes and set in the oven to "cook
itself, while an indigestible pie takes q
great deal more time and wearying
labor, and is not SO satisfactory to hun
CRY persons appetite. Before you have
quite formed your household habits,
think of this matter.
AMELIoRATIoN OF LIFE's CARES. -The
busiest life may be made endurable by
judicious tightening of its cares. If we
take no time for recreation and relief,
no time for acts looking to the future
and better life, the hour is certain to
arrive, sooner or later, when crisis will
confront us, compelling US 10 do all
these things which we so much neglect
in the routine of business or professional
life. How much better it is, then, to
make rest, recreation, reflection,
thoughts of future and better, prrer
and holier state of existence, part Of
our daily experience, combining bust
ness with charity, industry with kind
ness, perseverance with fortitude, ex-
perience with religion, commingling
of qualities and hopes that tighten life
as we go through the world, and add to
the pleasures of the present with view
to the hereafter.