Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-01-14
miscellaneous.
Mondays Work.

The faithful housekeeper finds many
passages in her daily round. that are not
only difficult and toilsome. but, from con-
slant repetition. monotonous and irk-
some. as well. To learn how to gather
up some recreative mental stimu-
lus to carry along as an antidote, will well
requite an effort in this direction. A
young friend with sensitive nerves once
told me that she managed 10 sit quietly in
the dentists chair while having her teeth
filled. by having laid 10 = good store of
pleasant thoughts. and that she reserved
the choicest of them fol the most trying
part of the ordeal. | often think of it
while working on with weary head and
hand. and find in her method the light for
many dark corners.
Beginning with Monday which, in fact.
in its b. 81 aspecfs is a foilsnme day.
think II can be made not only profitable
but also Il Pheasant one. A large portion
ot the time we devote to this neetful, and
If properly managed. healthful part Of our
honsew' rk. j. really available for agree
able and useful thinking To save con-
fusion We can sort our clothes in the be-
ginning so that they will need no ruriher
anxiety. Then with a wsphper or mag
azine 30 placed that with a sile glance.
when we wiring out our clothes. one after
another. we can pick mp 4 thought or an
item at news. every quiet moment can be
turned to the best account
That any mother can be doing her duty
Ia her family and 10 society. without an
cffnrt To keep up with the general news,
and the more important movements of the
day, j. inadmis-able. That so many fail
in sincere effort TO do so is more IRE
qnentiv from want Of method than from
lpk Of time. Here, then, Is one forenoon,
the yht ofevery woman known
10 do her own washing. free from intru-
sion. Il may be The only one the week
will furnish, so here is her best opportu-
nifty. Since The most of our papers reach
us IN the latter part of the week. when
the work naturally accumulates and crowds
out the reading, and we do not care 10
spend our Sundays in reading the news,
even in our religious papers, we can re-
serve that portion for the next day as q
pleasant and most important part OF our
duties. The habit whi,.h some hOusekeep-
ers have of doing Il washing and ironing
the same day might interfere with this
plan. So much the better. If such over
work makes them sick all day Tuesday,
and miserable for two or three DAYS long
er. Experience has taught me that this
day. rs well rs every other, should have
its harvest of thought added to The gener-
ai Store. The days following will doubt
less bring plenty OF work. but they may
afford no quiet for meditation upon
what we r, ad. Be, i'll 8, it saves our ply ST.
cal strength. To add n iittle amusement of
this sort. and work little more mod
erdtely. Then. again. there is of en- so
much thought Condensed into a few lines
in our best periodicals, that we do not full
~ digest it. if we read along hour after
hour. Therefore. instead of rushing
through our work and sitting down for Il
few hours OF consecutive reading, so tired
in body that our minds will not etain what
is before them. let the reading be inter
spersed, and digested we go along. BY
this method we can not only store up the
thoughts of others. but allow time for kin
dred ideas To spring up in our o~n minis
which we IN turn compare with theirs and
thus inform our judgments.
Stepping in for II moment ut the door of
/ friend one Monday forenoon found her
finishing up her ironing in the heat of Il
summer day. She had risen before light
to begin the washing and get it out before
breakfast. and was sweltering with heated
blood over the last garments. piIied her
folly, for knew she had thus made her
self sick. and spent miserable week fol-
lowing it. many II time. but still she did
not learn wisdom. turned in sorrow
away, for she WAS unwittingly SHINING
against God and destroying herself-Cot-
tPqe Hearth.