Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-02
Sensible Women.

sophically, which is by no means the
same as tepidly or unfeelingly. What
she can conquer by strong resistance.
she does; what she cannot CONQUER she
submits to patiently and quietly. Wher,
a shrek would free her from danger she
would scream as loudly as her neigh.
bors; but where it would do nothing 10,
her own safety, and much for the dis.
traction of those who heard her. sh.
keeps a calm sough and betrays moth.
ing evan to the reeds. If fond Of the
country, and her fate lands her at Ber.
mondsey, she makes the best OF wha,
she has, and refuses to shape the wood
of her house tree into a O she can
never forget. Certainly Bermondsey is
not inviting, and her fathers plac,
down in Somersetshire was a yer,
heaven of rural beauty. But if she car
not have it? What is the use of crying
over the inevitable, of DESIRING the inn
possible, of trying to churn the spill
milk into butterp When she married
her Janus she married into the con.
t%ingencies of q clergyman's life, amons
which is counted the necessity of taking
what will give a sufficient amount 81
family bread.
And again, if on the other hand she
has been used to intellectual life and
Vivacity of London she does not moon
away her life in unavailing regrets
when she is sent down to that desolate.
companionless living on the edge of
the fens, but sets herself to make the
garden trim and the house pretty and
home-like within, and when she is
forced to look out she speaks of the
sense OF expanse in the sky, and not of
the ugly dreariness of the landscape,
nor yet OF the DIES olate solitude of her
surroundings. She is far too sensible
to spend her strength in regrets, and
she thinks the best way of bearing bur.
dens of all kinds is to pad them with
c~heerfulness and not cut her shoulders
sore with %unavailing irritation. Things
which have to be done at n cost,
things which have to be borne at any
price, she does and bears with the wise
courage of common sense, by which she
avoids the pains courted by fretfulness
and, in making the best OF things, ha,
always something in her hand which
at least is relatively good. Cheerful
and fond of children. as all sensiIle we.
men are and must be to deserve the
style and name, she is the life of the
small brood when they gather in little
groups or isolated units, stiff, strange
and shy, in the drawing-room
where they are the guests of the hour.
If the hostess is inapt, the sensible
woman supplies her deficiencies and
takes her place naturally, as of right
and by orderly arrangement of things.
No n knows how she does it, but in
a short time she has put all in train,
when the ball is set rolling, and the
fun of the fair has begun. The
children look at her as their leader,
and she knows how to smooth away all
the difficulties which may arise. She
encourages the timid. helps the awK-
ward, gently represses the rude, tames
into due subordination, without extin-
gushing, the rampant spirits of the
boisterous. She makes herself the CEN
ter and the soul, but always with mod
Grafton; and what, without her, would
have been a tiasco for dullness, or a
riot for rudeness, she makes into an
evening of which the little treasures
talk for weeks after, and remember
for years as a glimpse into fairyland.
So, in any home where she may be with
young people long past mere childhood.
If a wet day comes she sets every
thing in motion, and turns what else
would have been gloom and ennui into
pleasure and brisk amusement, and all
this without any kind of self-assertion,
though being a sensible woman, she is
nationally fond of amusement for her
own share.
Still, it is as much or furthermore, for
others than for herself that she works
at ''making things CO." and her desire
to amuse others is stronger than even
her own wish to be amused. The SEN
sible woman takes a healthy interest in
her neighbors, hut she is by no means a
no time will she be brought into the
folly of discussing motives, Or Judging
of things by the seamy side of appear,
ances. And if persistently bored by
those who find a pleasure in seeing all
things a tn0yers and all people more or
less scoundrels u~ndetected, she does her
best to mitigate what she cannot pre-
vent. She has strong principles, but is
not an active proselyter. She lets
others think for themselves and only
when called upon to testify raises her
own private flag aloft. She knows the
difference between constancy and agg-
erosion, and, with tie courare of her
opinions, has so the mo lesty of reti-
cence. She treats her servants in O
certain sense as her friends, her children,
while still keeping the reins of home
government in her own hands. Bet
they all know that when they do their
duty she will reward them, OF at least
recognize by kind word and hearty
acknowledgment that they have done
well, and when they neglect she will
be neither Indifferent on one side nor
remiss on the other; and thus her house.
hold always feels and knows that her
eyes are open and her heart is warm.
Tile Queen.
james Russell Lowell writes to 4.
friend in Boston tt at he likes living in
London 'all but the living" He is be-
coming dyspeptic, and attributes It to
his entire and enforced abstinence from
fresh and salt cod, CLAIMS, buckwheat
cakes and bak d beans, which are lux.
uries and actual necessities almost
wholly unknown in Great RIitain