Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-12-13
WOMAN's DUTIES.

Or what q field opens out when you take
up this subject. AS far as the eye can
reach in every direction broad expanss
spreads out before you. 1t will be safe to
thrust IN oBes sickle almost any where,
being sure Of respiDg a harvest OF ideas
whether they be new or old is another mat
ter. .----
| think I'll give you "Issscs" ideas Of
womAn's duties2 / often coax him to
tell me Just what be thinks womsns duty
is.
BE Is ayerse to telling, for few more
ears than mine have the bene6t-but BY
dihgsnt questioning i learn little Of
what have always known, that woman
duty is to take care of her house that
taking care Of her house" means different
things With different people.
"lsaae's idea Of woman was, take
care Of her house properly, is one who
always is neat and tidy aud smiling as
though WEAKNESS was unknown to her.
One whose house is always ready to un-
expected guests, whose table is always
ready to welcome the most honorsd visitor
who ia brought home unsnnounesd. one
whose children are always well behaved
and whose husband never found 9 button
missing.
The great charm about this woman IS
that she has her own work.
You will not be sstonished to learn that
Isaac has not yet met dis model house
keeper.
In addition to looking we'll to the ways
Of her household he expects her to have
. we'll stored mind-she ought to be well
read on all points and able to discuss in
telhgsntly any topic of general interest.
Well, think Isaac" is right in nearly
every particular.
No woman's education is completed till
she is a practical house wife and sn &C
complished seamstress.
Nevertheless do not think it her duty to
spend her days in doing the drudgery of her
housekeeping.
Doesn't 3 practical mschinist begin at
the very beginning OF his trade and rise
step By step, till he is fitted to make a
competent mschinist.
Just so l think woman who looks well
to the ways of her household" is one who
is 8 competent manager. A woman g
work, we gil know. is never done, because
her life is made up Of so many little
things.
A man has his regular business hours
and is not likely to be interrupted by any
thing not pertaining strictly to his bust
ness.
No matter how systematic woman may
be about her work, she is always at the
mercy Of her unsystemstc friends and
ntighbors. Order aud system are two Of
the most important laws of a household.
II we could only have the notices, "a
time for everything and everything in i;s
time" aud "A place for everything and
everything in its place. hung up in every
room of our houses, and law pssssd com
peliug the Inhabitants to accept them We
might hope to accomplish something. Or
der is said to be heavens fret law.
Some one has said that some blessings
come in clusters Ike the fruit of the vine,
bat God pours out for US the golden elixir
of life drop by drop, minute by minute
taking one away before he gives US an
other.
But says some one, no woman can st
tend her home duties and 60 about t
societies of one kind and another
All the answer / have for that is, tina
the women who do the most work fol
humanity and its uplifting have the bes
kept homes / see, and their children ar
the best behaved of any meet.
1t is good thing for child to look uE
| TO its mother aud find broad culture o
heart and brain, and this no child can fine
if the mother is compelled to be mere
household drudge.
Aside from being prdctiea! house
keeper, every girl ought to have SONS kind
off trade.
Many dehestely reared girl, has found
in some sudden dark hour, that her father
fortune has been swept away and she in
her helplessness knows not where to turn
So would have her taught something
that would enable her to be independent il
necessary.
Then we dare not forget that great
multitude OF unframed and uutaught wo-
men who are GRO siding our cities.
II the women from our homes of culture
aud Christianity do not 90 out and help
up these uutaught ones, can you calculate
the RESULT
Do you know Of any society Of men who
will help raise themH Do you believe that
the homes Of this country will be safe il
the noble women of the land DO not 20 out
into ths highways and hedges and compel
Christs poor to goto Hiu2 viii 9 woman
own home be safe if she remembers not
that she is her brothers kseperY You
know Good The more communicated, the
more abundant grows
Therefore the women who go out among
God poor will have the reflex influence
shed about their homes. There ia large
cless Of women who do not have to be
home.mskeFS OF home-keepsrs, but We can
not talk Of them ct this time.
REBEKAH.