The National tribune., 1883-06-28


advice must always be to so plan your work
that il comes naturally, as pleasure and not
forcedly as a task A most successful worker,
noted for accomplishing multitude of things
and who found a keen enjoyment in all that
was done, upon being asked the secret of it all,
replied: My motto u.s. one thing at a time"
We present this to TIE TRIBUNE circle as
the key TO success.
Our Weekly Experience Meeting.
CONFIDENTIAL CHAT-woMAN's AUXILIARY
WORK, sc.
The home life Of woman always has q pecu-
liar charm for us. The consequence is that we
are pretty sure to invite the woman WHO has
something to say upon this subject to come for
ward and open the experience meeting. This
week we are Joubly favored, having received a
confidential letter from q soldiers little daugh-
ter, which will be found quite as genuine in
its way as the experiences of an Iowa soldiers
wife, which are first presented.
Now, the editor Of the woInan's department.
can, IN truth, sympathize with Mrs. Lewis,
since she has herself sat up late at night max
ing over old clothes for just such little boy as
is herein described There are very few sol
dier's wives who have not had a taste of such
experience, for patriotism and acquisitiveneSs
do not commonly go hand in hand, and the
soldier Is, as a rule, poor man. But one con-
ISOLATION the poor mans wife always has to rest
most likely TO succeed in the long run. Our
most successful men to-day in ali the various
ranks of business and enterprise have been
poor mems sons, and most of them very poor at
that. The chief endowment of each seems TO
have been that he was blessed with prudent
and heroic mother, who taught him in her
own life the glory of seif-sacrice and perseVer-
ance TO the end. So Mrs. Lewis must not be
discouraged in well-doing. The true mother
lives Ia her children. ard if we mistake not the
writer is not enc who viii have cause TO regret
that she has toiled and struggled to keep her
boy trim and tidy, and SO give him an object
lesson of devotion under difficulties that VIII
be enc Of the haliowed memories Of his life.
Better the work that lifts the heart above than
the work that grovels 10 earthly gain. Let
The TRIBUNE circle listen to the weary
mother, and each and all respond with wofd
of sympathy and cheer. Gather around,
friends; THE TRIBUNE viii enlarge its bounds
and take you ali TO its heart
SYMPATHY Is SWEET.
GAINESVILLE Iowa, June IL.
To the Editor NATIosAL TRIBUNE:
Once / rap for adnlittanee within the
charmed circle OF loyal women. The time has
come when woman is ionge cipher; whsn
the brave, the true. The good everywhere admit
That capable of doing something else be-
sides washing those endless dishes But meals
must be cooked and rooms swept and busted, and
dishes must be washed, and 1t does mar the
beauty of ones hands TO do all this. Mrs. Sher-
wood il right We meet every day girls upon the
walk and ia their homes, girls rosy and bright,
sweet and pretty, girls whose white hands betoen
that they toll not, neither do they spin; yet they
are arrayed the lily OF the field. But the father
tolls, and so does the mother, they endure priva-
tions uneomplainingiy that their daughter may be
thus s.rrayed. mistaken father, mistaken mother,
teach your daughter that her first duty lies at
home, lifting, measure the burdens OF lie
from your shoulders. In short teach them that
there higher duties, nobser calliilgs than the
catching Of the beaux or securing by marriage a
4 s9..zTr a.yz zs.usfsr IN
Many thanks to Soldiers Wife Sfor her words
of cheer / would reach her through your
columns for one moment She says: +" Come,
psint eli your Nretchedness. Come and tell here
ali your WOE" To-day, dear lady, am worried.
1 have old oyercoat to rip in pieces and to be
cleaned, and a brand new suit of clothes to be
buded out of the pieces for my little six-year-old
boy. dislike such a job but all my life has been
filled with such tiresonle tasks Some of us do
poor, toilsome lives But sympathy is a balm for
our woes no less acceptable because Ii comes from
| stranger. Wondering if may be permitted to
Mrs c. C. LEWIS
LITTLE GIRLS LETTER.
! Here is letter that speaks for itself, and we
are sure that child SO frank and full of life
and merriment will, if properly directed, de-
velop into noble and enthusiastic worker in
the worlds great beehive. She will find her
questions answered below:
DAyENPoRr, Iowa June 13, 1ss3
1 BiRs. SHERWOOD: i am going to write you q
| letter. Mamma says you will think me silly, but
| / know you won't. and L think would like to
| write letter for THE TRIBUNE. We have taken
THE TIIEUNE for two years, and papa says he
would rather do without his dinner for a week
| than 10 miss The TRIBUNE once. Mamma and
papa rave over your letters, and say every day
they wish could make my mark in the world, but
never wis, because hate TO study and stay gu;
OF school every day there is anything going like
| circus procession or ST. Patrick's Day. / have
been taking music lessons for perfect ages but
can't play the q Maidenss Prayer for which
/ very thankful. My grandpa is Scotch and
wants me 10 sing Scotch songs, but hate TO sing
| would much rather whistle, and, oh, am crazy
| 70 play a cornet. Do you know, please if it is
! fashionable? Because want to be stylish, but
can't, because have big sister, and have to wear
| ali her old dresses made over, and you know you
can't look very well in old clothes. want TO go
/ on the stage What do you think about it? Peo-
/ pie say that am born actress, and can initiate
| every actress ever saw. / heard mamma tell q
lady, the other DAY, that 1t was quite remarkaoie
she did not know that heard il but did, just the
| same There, / using slang again. We have
3 slang-box, and everybody that ssys any slang
! has to put s. cent in the box, and the money al
goes 10 the missionaries belong 10 missionary
society, but never go only when they have sup
per and have good things TO eat. Oh yes; do yoI
1 know how 10 make good chocolate carameisf
have tried and tried, but can't make them fit t.
eat. Ny father belongs to the Post. lie was il
the army and loves to tell stories about the war
! would do almost anything for soldiers. When
get big am going TO belong 70 a Ladies' Society
Ike the one you have IN Toledo. This Is all fol
to-day from NELLIE, Soldiers Daughter.
/ -fhSsDefS 10 Acfttc 8 tstLfT. l. We nave kH0WT
girls who played very well on the cornet, buf
would not commend it as a girlish accomplish
ment. 2 One can turn dramatic talents Il
good account without going on the stage. Mel
lie should study elocuti0u; but she must re
member that she cannot excel in any higi
calling unless she applies herself to study ant
becomes the possessor of a well-trained mind
3. The following is a good recipe if CAREFUL,
followed, for Chocolate caramels: One and
half cups of chocolate, one cup of sugar, ont
cup Of molasses three-fourths of cup OF milk
better if half cream, and butter the size of al
egg Boil longer than nolasses candy. Try il
cold water. When nearly cold, spread owe
buttcred Tins Break with the back of a knife
A BRACE OF CRITICISMS.
A sorry picture comes from Southern Kan
sas concerning the alleged unsoldierly conduc
Of certain members of the g. A. II. Of that pa
triotic region. The complaint is by no mean
the first TO reach US, and has been the burden O
very pronounced opposition TO the extension O
the G. A. z. in many localities, both East an,
West, and by those whose friends were amon
the veteran soldiery, too We learn of goo'
members who have quietly dropped the Pos
on this account, thus greatly impairing the in
fiuence and benefcence of the Order No on
can read the subjoined statement, rs given b.
a lady whose brothers were all soldiers, with
out feeling the hot blood mount TO mis- cheek
over such recrcancy to a great and holy trus
1t is not the enemies from without that are il
this case to be feared but the enemies froT
within, who would turn an institution tha
should be mighty power in the land in be
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