The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-12-04
FOR YOUNG WIVES.
How They May Become Successful Home
Keepers Ne Well as House-Keepers.

Aeepere NJ well 8s House-keepers.
Housekeeping and housekeeping are
two very different things. There is
many a well-kept house that has
scarcely an element of the true home.
There are many beloved and cherished
homes where there is not very good
housekeeping. House keeping under
certain circumstances may be sighted,
ndthere are times when it becomes
the house-keeper's duty, for the sake
of other duties, to make her house.
keeping secondary, but the home
keeping never. 'Do you keep house
and take care Of your children?" asked
one young mother of another. mo.
take care of my children and keep
house." was the sensible reply. To
rightly proportion the work and care
of home between housekeeping and
housekeeping requires an amount of
wisdom and patience such as no one
who has not tried it can estimate.
Great are the responsibilities of the
young wife; perplexing and dis
couraging the problems which will
continually arise in the complex home
life of to-day. She will need above all
things, patience and the ever-sustaining
power of a deep sense of duty. These
are the foundation stones of the home
where love will live and grow and be-
come stronger and more precious with
every passing year.
There is one common fact to which
nearly every young wife must recon-
cile her mind at an early period in her
married life. and that is that the cares
of the home, with all their multiplicity
and wearisomeness of detail, will de-
volve chiefly upon her. Her husband
will be mainly absorbed in his business,
if he is a good business man. The Pc
culiarity of the business life of to-day
is the strain it puts on the attention
during business hours, so that every
thing foreign to it is almost necessarily
excluded. So the young house-keeper
must not be disappointed and become
piqued and pouty if John shows de-
cided reluctance to attend to any small
matters pertaining to the household. l
have known young wife make herself
unhappy for. days over the circum-
what alphabetically that he could not
take time to. stop at the grocer's on his
way to business to order soap and
starch on Monday morning. She said
to herself, and finally said to him, that
when he was counting her he could
spend an hour any time and rush all
over town to match shade of en-
broidery silk, OF find q certain kind of
rose for her to wear to n party. Why
this change, unless he was ceasing to
care for her wishes and convenience ?
All such nonsense needs to he put
aside by firm. good sense. In married
life, as in all other relations of the
home, great deal must be taken for
granted. To be constantly on the
warch for little lapses aud failures in
attention is like pulling the earth away
from planted seeds in order to see if
they are growing. Not but that little
attentions should be lovingly contin-
ued, and the tender plant of love con-
stantly and tenderly cherished, but
there should be no suspicion or re-
proaches for little inattentions or
omissions that may merely be the re-
suit of absorption in cares and the
necessary work of life. The best way
for Young wife to secure loving
attention from her husband is to hold
his love by her gentle and steadfast
kindness and faithfulness, and his adj
miration and respect by the manner in
which she fulfills the duties that fall to
her share in the domestic partnership.
| This she will utterly fail in doing if she
becomes querulous. fault-finding. sus-
picious, or undertakes to keep calling
him to account on MISREPRESENTATION
| in connection with their home life.
Helen E. Starrett, in Chicago Interior.