The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-12-02
FIREsIDE CHAT.

Think WITH METHoD.-Under all the
circumstances in which you may be
placed, trying or otherwise, think as
steadily and clearly as your capacity will
allow you to do; compel your thought
to bring you to some sort of conclusion.
and then carry out the conclusion with
out consulting any human being. Clear
thought, continuous thought and silence
AL exercised on the daily trifes of
lne-these habits, which are none of
them difficult, will so harden the mind
as in a very short period to make it inca
pable of indecision.
LIBERAL TRAINING 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
ducks take to water. She does not rec
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 a system of broad and lib
eral tuition which will fit women for any
Of the probable contingencies of life,
render them self-dependent, and fully
develop their varied faculties.
A MOTHERS CARE.-No hireline
should be intrusted with the care Of
children. A devoted mother says 81
devoted myself to the charge of my nur
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 sef-sustaining at an early pc
Rod. Neither pert nor precocious, they
ripen early to Judgment and common
sense, and believe that the tillage of
my own little field has produced har-
vest worth the labor 'EEg. Ys#.
"R1cH" FooD.-Young housekeeper,
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 o 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; oil the result of
mothers splendid cooking" With proper
dispatch an ample, wholesome and de-
icious pudding can be made in five min
utes and set in the oven to sscook
itself, while an indigestible pie takes
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.
AUTHORIZATION OF LIES CARES,
busiest life may be made endurable by q
judicious Tightening of it's cares. If we
take NO time for recreation and relief,
no time for acts looking to the future
and a better Life, the hour is certain to
arrive, sooner or later, when crisis will
confront us, compelling us to 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 q better, purer
and holier state Of existence, part of
our daily experience, combining BUSH
ness with charity, industry with kind
ness, perseverance with fortitude, ex-
perience with religion, communicating
OF qualities and hopes that tighten life
: as we go through the world, and add to
the pleasures of the present with a view
to the hereafter