The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-02-07
LOYAL WOMAN WORK
Household Hints---Chat With Core
spOndents---Relief Corps News.
conducted By Kate B. s1.er.oood.l

lin had of saying, as the old Continentals did,
Trust in God and keep your powder dry
In other words, one must have prudence as
well as energy in the successful management
Of any undertaking, be it great small Pru-
dence carries with it multitude of qualifca-
tions, chiefest of which is vigilant oversight
of even the smallest details. Whether it be
the management of a large business, or the
simple direction of household affairs, their
must be a head TO plan as well a hand to exc
cute.
Prudence is not merchantable article, to be
bought for price in the market-plaee, as you
would buy butter and eggs hay and corn
Neither is it peculiar gift, as the talent Tor
music or art or invention. tits rather-like the
fire that gives heat, the air that supplies the
life-giving principle-the common property OF
every man and woman born into the world.
Like all other points OF breeding, 1t may be
strengthened by heredity or by the extent to
which it is employed in the individual, but i'll
such cases it is simply like the cultivation OF
the voice, the expansion of the muscles, or the
development of one of the essential elements IN
the human organism.
Thus considered, one can have small patience
with those who are simply content to drift-to
let things shape themselves, having no care or
thought as to how the outcome will be. 1t is
just as though a man should build store house,
fill il with goods and clerks, wait for the GUS
toners to come, and give no care to sales or
prices until the yearly inventory came around.
One would not enjoy glance at the footIngs OF
profit and loss in such case, at least II he had
any regard for the credit of his house and his
own good name.
And yet in Just such hap-hazard way is
much of the business Of this country carried on.
! Who wonders that the result is bankruptcy.
suicide. and social and business demoralizstion
OF the gravest kind?
4 Households are too often managed the same
I where the family has assembled around the
table only to find out that there is no bread in
1 the house, while all sit around and wait until
! boy can run around to the bakers; or where
/ some other equally important article OF food
/ has been unprovided for the family table. Is
/ il any wonder that from such families as these
20 forth the shiftless, improvident foolish
sons and daughters to cumber the world with
4 their presence and fill homes and hearts with
mourning and humiliation?
Mothers Of America, do you know that upon
you depends the physical and moral welfare OF
4 generations yet unborn? Remember that the
cradle is the starting point Il is there the
child begins to think and to feel Begin at the
beginning. Teach him prudence, foresight,
and economy, and trust to his native push and
energy to do the rest.
Here is a picture of the perfect mother. Cut
it out and PIN it in your Bible:
] wish were a poet. then gladly would twne
wreath OF siiver-iailing verse, with praise IN
And lay it rsely at her feet where all the world
The qneeniy lady OF my love, to whom bend the
knee.
/ wish were painter, then proudly would ]
With brushes dipped in light and bloom, her dear
benignant face;
And would strive in humbleness. to all the world
/ TO prove
How worthy and how peerless is the lady of my
love.
Not poet nor painter. and still III try TO tel
How many graees meet in her, whose look IS like
Who conquers evil daily by the magic of hei
And woos to follow in her train each knighay-
The sweetness Of her spirit shines through he,
No thought has she that fain wonld hide or wear
dark Disguise:
For sorrow she has tenderness. Tor error she ina:
ruth
And through the world walks fearlessly, clothed
Whitley with the truth.
She found her rare and liquid gift of song tha
BY ehildren's cribs by cOuches where her low ant
Charmed fever to forget his cluch. won sleep t.
And sometimes blended with the psalms that rini
through Paradise.
Her hand has skill in hornely arts. broken toy te
mend
And equally to broken hearts healing touch car
lend;
The wounded and the stricken one, the life witt
care oppressed,
Revive beneath her gentleness and leave her pres
ence blest.
You fancy she is youthful. serene in girlhood'
Then let ME whisper. on her Jocks soft lies Time
siited snow.
Nay iaabs that once she sheltered are in the uppc
S And hands that closely elasped with hers ar
Ioosened from their bold.
She consecrates Earth's duty with faith. who's
: Was Eiaded at His altar. who is stin her soul
And making home temple since half her heart
above
She scatters sunshine everywhere, the lady of m
5 ~5iGrgqre, f. sangs,er, in Democrats sfOattly.
) QUESTIONS AxD ANSWERS
Soldiers La9de should not spell s-o-l-g-e-r wiie
he means ss-ol-d-i-e-r. Eeshould also write pen
r s-i-o-n-e-r and not p-e-n-s-i-a-T-o-r.
Comrade A. Lane, Longmont COL asks: 'Hyh
: was the Drummer Boy Of Shiloh. and what wa
: the incident that gave hiIn notoriety?" Can an
/ one answer?
+ viii some ono piase send, through THE TRIT
Il UsE- the songs entitled Colonel Ellsworth an
Z Union City. Pa.
Mrs Maggie J. D., Hartford. Conn.-The addre,
yon inquire for being thai Of the lady who has
remedy for chronic sore throat, is Mrs. J. i. Su,
e dam, Pennington III.
: Mrs James L. Lewis Athol Mass writes 1
: that requests for pattern OF star album quilt liy
reached her from all parts Of the country sine
D mention OF ~ ia THE TRIBUNE She thereioI
requests the announcement that those who desiI
peced block viii send twenty five cents with III
y stamp; otherwise she viii not be able furnia
time and material 70 meet the demand.
'e Tel your correspondent she may sugar pop-cor
~ by the following process: Put into an iron kctt
tablespoonful Of butter, three of water and OF
a. then throw in three quarts OF nicely popped
stir briskly until the candy is evenly distribute
the set the kettle from the FIRE and ST
u until il has cooled little. and you have eat
e. grain separate and crystallized with the sugar M
at of any kind prepared in this way delicious.
Maize.
n Mary T. Westcoit. De Witt. Nebraska. who
a. compiling FOOTBALLS Of Loyalty writes to Il
: Posts and Relief Corps AS follows: Again / a.
you 10 send me your old soldiers letters. write
d, between lS6i65. present addresses of women wi
served a. hospital nurses soldiers diaries aud in,
IA dcats OF all descriptions relating to the da
of war Bear in mind that one-alf ;lie royalty ;
receive ia the publication OF this series Of boo
III goes TO the w. H. c. At our own expense we ]
e DO moi DC afraid OF sending too much.n
ry Oar Weekly Experience Meeting.
"A A GIEAA or TIE TREE Tops-oNE SIGN
TURE wAsTrNe-TIIB cIrLDRES's CHAT.
srETEasvILLE Pa, January, 1854
a. To the Editor NAroSAL TRIBUNE: