The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1886-09-30
UNNECESSARY WORK.
Words of Caution to observation-disclosures ant
Overlooked Women.

Words of Caution to Over-Industrious ant
Overlooked Women.
A sensible writer in an exchange
savs:1 IL am convinced that at least
one-quarter of the work performed by
women is unnecessary, and that the
world would get along quite as well
without it, ! am inclined to go fur
ther still and put it at one-half q
never find time to read,'' said a lady,
at whose house I was calling, and al
the same time she sadly threaded a
needle with chenille, and remarkine
that some people had so much leisure,
she continued her work of embroider
ing impossible yellow peaches on red
plush mantle scarf 1t had not even
the merit of economy, for the materials
were as expensive as they were hide
Gus. Any work that serves to make
home charming and lovable place is
a sacred duty to wife and mother;
bat that which contributes to no COM
fort or enjoyment, frightful fancy work
that has not even any artistic merit, is,
indeed, waste of time and energy
'.busy idleness."
Husbands undoubtedly like to fee
that their wives are good housekeepers,
but husbands are very human, and
once let woman sink the wife into
the housekeeper, and her husband will
very likely fall into the same error.
The .'over-clean" woman is a nuisance
to her family and friends. / once over
heard a conversation between two
gentlemen in car, whose wives be-
longed to the above class, and, though
estimable women, were about as close
to godliness as cleanliness could take
them. 1t was during the season Of
that annual horror -s'house-cleaning.
and they were condoling with each
other upon its miseries. They both
| voted it an entirely unnecessary evil,
and one of them said that during its
progress at his house every thing was
| so wet that he always felt as if there
was an incipient flood, while his friend
said he could endure the water, it was
the smell of yellow soap that he
| objected to. .s4is5sf
A woman should never allow herself
to become mere household drudge,
| and when she finds that she has no
time to read an occasional good book,
| to write letter to friend. to read a
| story to the children. or to walk OF
| talk with her husband, she may con-
clude that there is something wrong
| somewhere in her domestic economy,
and the more quickly she recognizes
and remedies the evil. the better il
will be for herself and family. If she
is obliged to do her own family sew
ing, every tuck or rrffie that she puts
on her, children's clothes is a crime
The hour or hours spent in making ar
elaborate dress that baby will look
.lovely'' in, is waste of energy thai
mother who does her own work can
not afford. Baby will look quite al
lovely in her eyes in plain slip, and
il he has only his elaborate dress tx
recommend him to the eyes of others, h'
might rather pass unnoticed. Give ths
matter serious thought, oh! tired house
keeper; and see if you do not daily
take many unnecessary steps, and dt
much that you might, without injur,
to any one, leave undone. Rest YOU
body and improve your mind keeping
your face and, heart as fresh as posi-
BILE, as you value the love of YOU
husband and children. 1 f
Since this is chapter Of quotations
[ will end it with the remark made b,
sarcastic gentleman: women seen
to me to be divided into two classes
the over-industrious and the over-in
dolent, and of the two evils, I woult
choose the latter as being the least. -
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