Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-03-31
POOR MEMS WIVES.

The trouble is, none of our young women
are willing to become poor mems wives, pro-
fessedly, even though they may be so in real
ity. The girl who marries upon $1,000
year looks forward to life spent in second
rate boarding houses, from which she will
squeeze out certain cheap domesticity and
some expensive pleasures. The children
which Heaven may send are not thought of
nor provided for. 1t is question whether
the young wife can make herself dress, or
prepare herself wholesome meal Of victuals.
She marries for freedom, to have good time,
to spend money which she neither earns, nor
helps to earn-for Heaven knows what-but
certainly not to make comfortable, if hum
BILE, home for her husband. In this respect
we consider the British girl has an immense
advantage over the American. From the
highest to the lowest circles of society in Brit
ain, girls are trained to make good and useful
wives, inasmuch as ladies preside over the
departments of their household and see that
everything is kept clean, and the food is we'll
cooked so also in the lower classes mothers
teach their daughters to do the same for
themselves, without suffering any loss of dig
nifty in the doing of it, Many of our Ameri-
can girls will be surprised to learn that the
Princess Louise frequently makes her pastry
and makes it we'll, too. On one occasion,
some apricot tarts of her making being praised
by a guest, the royal lady wrote out the re-
cipe, with the words underlined, "If you
desire to have an apricot tart properly cooked,
always make it with an upper crust!" The
story has point, and the point is that one
can never know how to do thing too we'll.
One of the great hindrances against getting
good wife arises from the false basis upon
which society is constructed. The idea that
equality is the peculiar birthright of all
Americans is erroneous. Where every person
thinks he or she is as good as the next, there
is always the opposite proof of incompetency.
A person is neither better nor worse than
another except in the degree of worth which
is honestly sought to be attained. But the
dispositions Of young women of the present
day (and the same may be said largely OF
young men, though perhaps not to the same
extenD is to think they are as good as any
one else, without taking the trouble to be so.
From this erroneous belief arises many OF the
evils frcm which society SUFFERS rs.-Kingston
Freeman.
81 CAN'T."-Never say, II can't" When
we consider the energy and ability palsied by
it; and how many fail in life by fearing to
attempt" we wish to feel with Napoleon, that
the words impossible" and 81 can't" were
obliterated from our language. Tamerlane
was taught better in his despair, and the per-
tinacity of spider nerved the warrior Bruce
to final struggle and glorious triumph.
If what is desired be worth the toll necessary
to win it, examine the ground deliberately,
and let nothing short of absolute lack of
means, or incom petence of power, deter you
from winning. Many a man, passing for
genius, artist, and even man of letters, has.
worked his way to proficiency by slow steps,.
and through years of ceaseless toll and care.
There is little that man has done, that is;
impossible to do again, and again, forever.
AS "necessity is the mother of invention" so
perseverance, and faith conquer every ebsta-
Gle. Because the road is rough and toilsome,
and the labor harsh and vexingPis it manly