Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1882-01-27

L belong TO the much-mallgned army
of spinster, but am a reader of the
Home Circle, and would like a place
among the sisters.
These ladies need stimulating to .
more vigorous use of their pens.
Few are SO inexperienced as no, to
be able to add something to the gen.
eral information as to the best, easiest
and most expeditions way of getting
through housework.
When all is known, and housework
made easy, it is no howery road to
travel, as some of us are ready to de-
clare with emphasis.
But what most vexes my righteous
soul is the want of appreciation among
men of woman's work. The farmer,
as general thing, thinks that he works
hard, but considers it a mere matter
of moonshine to "run' a house of SIX
or dozen inmates. Oh! when / see
what plentiful lack of consideration
and affectionate goodness many OF
these dear husbands extend to tired
wives and mothers, rejoice and am
exceeding glad to have escaped the
matrimonial harness.
Who seconds the motion that some
married sister. who knows how will give
these husbands drawing over the
coals2''
Having no settled abiding place, I
have STAYED around" and had a few
peeps behind the scenes" Over
work is the bane ofthe average farm
er's wlfe-want of recreation.
| have seen the inhumani:y of some
men to their wives-wives not over
strongtoo. l have seen a "house-
band" with the digestion of an ostrich
and strong as horse snore abed
mornings, while the mother who had
not even rested the ache out of her
body struggles unaided with the break
fast and the last baby.
On Sunday he passes along piously
to church and listens from a front pew.
The wife is chef cook, chief nurse,
chief everything. If there is a triAing
culinary blunder, his reproaches seem
TO come easily. If the biscui: has not
enough soda he is in towering rage,
and looks black if the meal is late or
early.
Physicians tell us that women grow
weaker physically, but most of my &C
quaintances are creatures of remarka-
Bile endurance. Many man, in their
shoes would succumb body and brain.
Men have machinery 10 tighten their
labor, but nothing has been invented
veto shorten the process OF baking
bread and pies in the country, or of
resting arms aching and tired from an
ailing, teething baby.
What wonder that woman who has
only been housekeeper and mother
few years looks like the parent of the
fresh and rosy girl she was on the
wedding day!
All men cannot be managed in the
same way. In some extreme cases tits
proper to wipe weeping eyes, show
fight and assert woman's rights, one Of
which is the privilege of resting when
tired nature needs it.
Some women are working them
selves under the coffin lid and do not
know it. The husband ought to see
that there is sufficient help in the
kitchen, or put his own, hand to the
rolling pin, and let her see that she
has something strong and true to lean
upon.
If ever l marry won't l manage nv
husband He'll not be spoiled by
being waited upon either. He shall
hang his own hat and pull his own
boots. and black them, too. l shall
take time to read, rest, visit. and also
to bestow some labor upon my out
ward adjoining, and he shall hold the
baby while I'm getting ,ea'
Miss IRENE,