Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-30
WEARY WOMAN.

Nothing is more reprehensible and thorough
ly wrong than the idea that a woman fulfills
her duty by doing an amount of work that is
far beyond her strength. She not only does
not fulfill her duty, but she most Signaly fails
in it. and the failure is truly deporable. There
can be no satlder sight than that of a broken
down, or oveworked wife or mother-a woman
who has tired all Of her life through. If the
work of the household cannot be accomplished
by ORDER system and moderation, without the
necessity of wearying, heart breaking toil-toil
that is never ended and never begun, without
making life 4 treadmill of labor, then for the
sake of humanity let the work 60. Better to
live in the midst Of disorder than that order
should be purchased at so high plice-the
cost of health, strength, happiness, all that
makes existence endurabe.
The woman that spends her life in unneces-
sary labor is, by this very labor, untitled tor
the highest duties. She should lie haven OF
rest to the home to which both husband and
children turn for peace and refreshment. She
should he the careful, intelligent adviser and
guide of the one, the tender, coniidant and
; hclpnlate of the other. How is it possible for
a woman exhausted in body, as natural con-
sequence in mind also, to perform either OF
these offices ? No, it is not possible. The
constant strain is too great. Nature gives
way to it. She loses health and spirits and
hopefulnesS, and more than all, her youth, the
! last thing woman should allow to slip from
! her for, no matter how old she is in years,
she should be young in heart and feeling, for
! the youth of age is sometimes more attractive
than youth itself.
TO the overworked woman this green old
age is out of the question; old age comes
to her, sere and Yellow before her time. Her
disposition is ruined, her temper is SOurcd,
her very nature is changed by the burden
which, too heavy to carry, is dragged about as
long us wearied feet and tired hands can DO
their part. Even her affections are blunted,
and she becomes merely machine--a woman
without the time to he Womanly, mother
without the time to train and guide her chill
dren as only a mother can, a wife without the
time to sympathize with and cheer her nus
band, a woman so overWorked during the Day
that when night comes her sole thought ana
most intense longing is for the rest and sleep
that very probably will not come but even if it
should. that she is too tired to enjoy. Better
by far to let everything go unfinished, to live
as best she can, than to entail on herself ana
family the curse of OverWork.
g. The bean blower with which the modern
schoolboy loves to torment the children round
about him and his teacher on the platform, is
only feeble imitation of the ''sumpltan
with which the aboriginal Dyaks of Borneo 60
to war. The sumpitan is Il blow-pipe about
five feet long, and the arrows, which are made
of wood or fish bones, are thin and sharp anu
are generally dipped in the poison OF the llp;'s
tree, which, though virulent, is not always
deadly. This singular weapon is used with
the greatest degree of accuracy at range OF
!, twenty yards, but it will carry hundred.