The Northern Pacific farmer., 1883-09-27
The Necessity of Looking Well
at Home.

the door engaged with her sewing,-her
sleeves tucked to her elbows, her hair
perhaps uncombed, or at best brushed
back inlthe plainest manner, her feet
in slipshod shoes, aud her dress the
same in which she had worked all the
morning, with perhaps the same apron,
and usually not over-clean. Her house,
if one should enter, would probably be-
found in excellent order-clean swept
floors, and chairs set back against the
wall, as if arranged for funeral, and
not thing out of place In the cup
board or store-room would be found the
whitest of bread, plenty of toothsome
pie aud cake, the freshest and sweetest
of butter, and many little delicacies the
materials for which nature so abundant
ly provides, and which the modern
housewife has learned SO we'll to prepare.
Nothing has she been remiss.in her duty
to her house but on herself; perhaps the
most important, certainly the most
necessary, thing in it she ha sno tspent
thought. She is too wearied with her
labor, and there is pile of sewing and
mending waiting to be done. 80 with
perfect self-abnegation she sits down to
her task till the evenings daily work,
and the preparation for supper, with Its
consequent duties closes the day on her
weary bod and mind. And 80 the days
pass-one h. sser another-much alike in
their samensss, until her mind is mar
roWed down to this smak routine OF
daily cares, and the thought of "dres4
ing up" to 60 from home, or to receive
company he zones almost irksome. Her
habits have become 80 fixed that she
has never considered, that few min
utes spent in bathing face, hands, and
neck, combing the hair in tasteful and
becoming manner, and putting on clean
dress with the addition of fresh lace or
muslin neck-tie, will not only add won
derfully to her sell respect, but actually
bring rest to her weary body and mind.
No matter if the dress be nothing but
print, if it be clean and fresh. For sum-
mer wear, this is usually the best mate
rial, as the evening chores must neces-
sarily be done, and with the addition of
a big apron, one is ready for the work.
Prints are SO pretty and cheap, that
there can be no excuse for not always
having one on hand. And then the
present mode of dressing the neck is so
pretty and yet so simple, and cheap that
there is no need of being seen even in
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or kerchief. No frills-no stiff collars,
but simply piece of India muslin, or a
less costly one cut sou ire and hemmed,
put on corner wise, and tucked into the
dress in front, or if one prefers; strip
a few inches wide and OF suitable length
simply hemmed and few tucks across
the ends put on for q tie. Four or five such
articles are all that is necessary. They
are thrown into the weekly wash, and
ironed without starch. Costly materials
made with elaborate care, are not at all
necessary to personal neatness. The
wife and mother cannot afford to 60
about her house, with torn or dirty
dress, neither for the example which it
brings, nor her own personal self re-
spect. There are few husbands so diff
ferent to the appearance and dress of
wife, as not to feel glow of satisfaction,
when on coming to the house from his
labor he finds her neatly arrayed, and
with smiling face-instead of the slat-
ternly being which is sometimes seen.
Indeed, I think the "male man." as
Samantha Allen would say, is naturally
fastidious in this respect. Every man
In his younger days not only
wished to be dressed himself witt de-
gree of care and taste, but his admira-
ton of the girl he loves is largely modi-
fed by the care which she bestows upon
life, che becomes coarse and seemingly
oblivious to the refining influences,
which taste and culture bring, who shall
say in how large a manner she is re-
sponsible? The wise mother of daugh
ters will insist that each afternoon shall
see them not only neat and tidy, but
tastefully dressed, so that in case of un-
expected callers, there need be no
furry, nor loss of self-respect. This, if
begun in early life will grow into a nabt
which in time will become 50 fixed, that
when she becomes wife and mother,
she will no more think of discarding,
than the necessary ones OF eating and
sleeping.
The Editor and His Work.
From Rev. Henry W. Foote'S remarks at the
Funeral of Editor Goddard OF the Boston
Advertiser.1
Think for a moment what it is which is
demanded of him who stands in such
post of duty! Like the pilot, his hand al
ways on the helm, he watches the atmos-
pheric current of opinion and feeling AMI
good. An unresisting fidelity holds him
constant to the most exacting form of pro-
fessional duty, with little respite for health
and none for pleasure. It is for him to
guard against the schemers who seek to
gain the public ear, to protect the ignorant
and the innocent, to lift journalism from
the function of q mere gatherer Of news
which tends TO make the world vast
whispering gallery in which the monstrous
and distorted echoes of countless matters
which had best sleep in oblivion reverber-
ate, to that of wise and just organ of
public opinion. giving clearness and bal
ance TO the general mind, on the one hand,
and on the other. speaking the general
mind of the weighhest part of the COM
munity with force and character that
make it heard and needed in the councilsof
the nation. To do such a work at all de-
mands rare gifts Of intellect and culture, OF
courage and tact. To do it worthily de-
mands how much of truth and of wisdom,
bravery to fight wrong, insight to see
the path of practicable duty, gentleness
in dealing with opponents, magnanimity
in Judging motives, the absolute elimina-
ton of personal and selfish considerations;
aboveall, self gation-a merging of self
in the truth and duty which is the very
spirit of the disciple of him who is truth
itself, who hath said: He that loseth his
life for my sake shall find it," It ia his
to see men of less gifts, less training,
less experience, less capacity for public
service, rise to eminence. by his help,
while he remains unseen, power rather
than person, pouring his life into the
channels of public service and losing it
utterly, to find it again, doubtless, as the
Master promised, in the knowledge which
must surely come some day, somewhere,
that the world is better thereby.
An Irish LAWYER having addressed the