The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1886-08-13

gone glimmering through the dream
of things that we're.
SIDNEY FABLE.
A Women Who Takes Care of H ,r--
self.
Said a recent writer: "The WON
an who takes care of herself is the
one of whom others are CAREFUL" and
how true it is, though it will appear
like a contradiction to some. The
reason is a lite hard to explain, but
it is on the principle of the ten tai
ents-''to him that hath shall be
given, and to him that hathsnot shall
be taken away even that which he
hath In the common parlancc of
to-day, the text evidently means that
he who takes care of what is entrust.
ed to him is sure to prosper, and vice
versa; and il has no exclusive refer.
ence to moneyed wealth either. The
first and foremost duty of each wife
and. mother is to keep herself well,
and she cannot do it if she over
works. as many of our correspond
ents testify that they do continually.
This is a matter of prime interest to
brides and all young housekeepers.
BY and by when the lines of your
daily life have been pretty clearly
marked out and reorganized by hus-
band, family, end friends, you will
find it hard to make a change, in
case you find that you have under.
taken to do more than your strength
warrants. What you have been in
the habit of doing you will be expect.
ed to do, and will be supposed to be
able to DO. And if you begin to
complain and make war on your
daily round of occupation, you will
be regarded with mild incredulity
which more naturally develops into
Indifference than sympathy. Don't
blame your John and think he does
mt love you any more or care how
hard you work-blame yourself. He
has simply accepted your estimate of
yourself at the start and gi due
credence to yonr judgment. If you
had been more careful of yourself he
would have been moro careful of you.
He used to beg you not to work too
hard, didn't he? And in the face of
the protest you were inspired to do
many big days work, at which
you pointed with pride, and he prais-
ed you for your achievements and
called you "a smart little wife willing
and ready to help your husband"
All, yes, you were all that, but you
were foolish too; for you were secret
ly tearing down that which was more
precious to him and your children
than anything else-your health,
your beauty, your cheerful spirit.
And with every big days work you
set up a standard for yourself in his
eyes which he afterwards naturally
expected you would be able to attain
though you might feel your strength
failing with every hour, and though
you might be cursing an unborn babe
with a weekly constitution.
And if you begin to neglect your
self and complain and scold, he will
wonder what has made his once win
some, happy Mary grown so old and
homely and disagreeable in these
few years; he is sure he has tried to
be a good husband. And so he has.
but you have blinded him by your
early achievements till nothing short
of domestic earthquake could open
his eyes to the real state of things.
Well, then, let the earthquake come
before you become perennial inva-
lid, or die and are supplemented by
number two will have an easy time
with the fruits of your hard work.
But how much better, in the begin
ming, to have looked at the matter
reasonably, done what you were alb
lie to, and let tie balance go, if help
could not be provided. John would
than have been in the habit of watch
ing over you and being solicitous for
your health and happiness. A reas
enable care of oneself is duty. and
in no sense an indulgence in selfish
ease,-Ihe Housekeeper.
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Home Influences.
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