Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-01-06
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WOman's Usefulness.

How queer things are in this world l
really believe there is an extra twist that
kinks things out of shape terribly. Talk
about woman's sphere! Just as if there
was something for them to do Why can
not they be contented to do what God de-
signed to do without making such an ever
lasting '.hullaballoo" about it p? | take it
that woman's mission is pretty much the
same as it was so or 100 years ago. ad-
NIT the times are changed one can see
that with one eve open, but am not sure
that the women of 1884 are one bit more
contented or happier than their grand
mothers were in their day. They did
with their might what their hands found
to do. and were happy in doing it. Big
families were the fashion then, and the
girls were just as useful as the boys. No.
body sighed over the future of the poor
thing when a baby girl was born, and
groaned because another girl was added
to the flock. No, the eighth girl was just
as the first and made Just as comfortable.
Yes, the times are changed. and babies
are not looked upon, nor do they meet
with the same feelings OF welcome that
they used TO do. such a care so much
work." Just as if the poor forlorn duck
| ling had no sort of business to enter this
world, and there was no place for it made
ready.
One thing is certain, and there is no
lodging it babies will be born, and some
of them will live and grow up to woman
hood as well as manhood. and there is a
place for them. and there is work enough
for them to do if they will only see it..
There is no need of hunting around to find
a mission, for every living person has a
mission prepared ready for them if they
will accept of it, 1t may be just COM
monplace, everyday duty. If such duties
are well performed, it is just as honorable
and praseworthy as if she had gone onto
the platform as apublic speaker, or entered
the bar as a lawyer. There is no station
| in lie in which a person cannot be useful
if they have the desire to be so. There is
discontinued restlessness that makes
people out of sorts with common duties
Girls are not suited with quiet vocations !;
| they are anxious to make their mark in
the world. They want to be celebrated. :"
| They are not content to be ordinary. 1t
Is not enough to hear their sentence,
''She hath done what she could' they
want something grandiloquent pronounced
DRY immotalized! Now this is all nom
sense If you are to do something Won
derful and good the opportunity will pre-
sent itself without running after it.or fold
ing up the hands and waiting for it. Not
one woman in thousand Cor man either)
does anything so magnificent as to i'm
mortalize their memory through posterity
If they can embalm it in loving hearts it
is all they ought to hope for or expect
and is enough. To be useful and happy
in the station in which God has pleased to
place them, is what they in bounden duty
ought to be. and if more is desired it will
only make them unhappy. 1t is not for a
woman to hew out paths from rocky
places but to walk quietly in the path
before her, whether it leads her to dark
places or up the nights of immortality for
IN the path of duty one very seldom STUN
bles.-COr, Rural NeW Yorker.