The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-05-24
TIRED WOMEN.
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 1 If you look around on the faces in . street car, the number cf lad cd and sad looking countenances preseI ting them selves IS startling. Mature women have especially tired air about them. show ing itself not cnly in pallid complexions. but in the wearied lines around the moSih and eyes IL Is impossible 10 as- socia,e this appearance with happy lives, and yet, from dress and manner. the majority would seem to be comfortably placed in thls world. Usually the climate Is supposed to have great deal to de with the early fading of youthful fresh- ness, and the beauty ot health. instead et rev,sing with the spring ot tke year. usually delays until the summer holidays. followed by the crisp autumn breesss. ,n- v,garatc the human system. If the truth was known. however. snspee, iha, it would be found that the reason why wo- men look tlred IS because they arc per petually fAtlsued.
 Modem methods have not eased the cares of wives and mothers, whose duties have developed with the growth ot science and the expansion ot at. When children were thIashed into obedience to parental commands. when young people understood tha, to hear was to obey. when husbands only expected their regu- lar three meals day and mendcd and clean clothing. the du,,es ot women were very mach simpler than at the presen, tune. In those happy days. when Ia eat. sleep and work was the whole duty ot man. and the interests ct pos,erity q side ek. d. Il might. after her work was done, cat and sleep. too, At least she had chance te work when husband and children were engaged in husineSs or m school Tor long hours of the day. In those days, rain CT sunshine were the same. lie moved m groove. and there was a probability oi things running smoothly. In those days people ate what was set before them. he. cause there was net much variety to be had. and they were no, always develop ing new ideas in the way ef occupations and diversions tha, upset the regular routine ct a household. Perhaps t was monstonous. but II was restiul for the house keepers.
 la the grea, upheaval of mind which has of late years set each individual soul on the search for that good living winch the world is supposed ,o owe II. ~heihei the quest IS continued m the direction oi business, pleasure. science. art ot religion, |, IS the ~ife and mother who Is espc, ted to he the instrument of Providence in providing the means and forwarding Inc success of the seekers, and bloody think. oi all the extra burden this th,swx upon her the strain on hes sympathy, the ias | h@s had. f.s \ \ ~ho wants play made iar him ,o the husband whe wants to talk over his affairs wlth her, !, X one long intermediate ham of little services winch are expected from her. That she has personal tastes CT m elinations is never taken into account. She has no time lcit foi her own use. but is actually at the beck and eail oi all be longing 10 her from eafly morning un,il late ai night.
 ltIs curious fact m connection wlth the nineteenth century. that few people are sell reliant, and s,ll fewer an a,s a,, themselves agreeabiy ~ahon, aid Like the Turk they want somebody to amuse them. With the additional burden of seeing that the members of the fanti, are amused. as we'll as theif maternal wants provided for. II is no wonder that wives and meihets look tmed No doubt men feel the fatigue of the cnnaian, dtiye that IS requisite to keep up with the general stride. h,t they have Il rtuliaf iac uliy oi beng able tp take rest. even m Inc midst of turmoil Women. un. fortunately, from long rspeflencc m being ovetdt.ycn, get into that state where they eannot teposr. even when the .tff~ 1Els nervous espef tation. brangh, abou, by the knowledge that there wall be soine- thins to do in A Ii ,nnic. e.en Il there [. noihing ealhng for a';entien JUS, now