The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-16
WOMAN AND HOME.
THE RESPECTIVE RIGHTS OF HUS-
BAND, WIFE AND CHILD.
Decline Of Homo Politeness--Telecrap
for women-A Pearly skin-Travsiing
Mans Trials--What Father and Mother
Thought-Taking "a Partner-Sotes.

DcCiinc Oh MONO folhteHess-Ae AeteeTupuy
for women-A Pearly skin-Traveiing
Mans Trials--What Father and Mother
Thousht-Taking u Partner-Sotes.
There can be no place where certain re-
straints and restrictions ere more necessary
than the narrow, often jarring, confines OF
home; there is no place where people feel
more unrestrained. unrestricted Many
young couple, new to tho delight OF being
one as well as a couple, find exquisite bliss
in making that unity SO complete that all
either has, in mind or matter, belongs TO
both. But that system won't work. No
two people, living together, can by any pos
siblity preserve their own happiness, to say
nothing OF their friends without something
of reserve; enough TO keep, at least, tn ir
selfres pect, enough to make both as polite
| TO each as In the days of their wooing.
! ! have emphasized that word polite. Why
Is it so many people keep all their fine man.
ners for the outer world and have none left
for homet Why do mothers train their lit.
tie ones in every way Tut example, TO be al
ways courteous anu then wonder that they
are sometimes rude' If you fail to say a.
surely as to their elders, than you" "a beg
your pardon" or, If you please" to child
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tho conviction that oliteness is not for
every day use nor for home consumption.
! NO husband has right to read his wife:
letters, in justice to the friends who wrote
them, and the woman who reads No wife
has right to pour her husbands coffee
| with her bang entwisted in last nights curl
papers No parent has right to give away
q child's play things without that child's con.
sent / hate this everlasting. greedy prat.
ing Of ones "due," but these are instances
by the way OF tho injustice ruling our good
housekeeping.
Tor you see, discourtesy Is the antithesis
Of Justice; not that all in ustice Is rudeness,
but all rudeness is injustice. Why should
we show our love by our impolitenessf |
remember once, when my sister AMI were
taking our departure, after call upon two
other sisters, we jostled against one another
at the door. Upon our mingled apologies
one Of the girls broke with laugh: 10
you do that to each other she cried, IL
should never think OF begging Lily's
pardon"
Yet they were well hammered young per-
sons, too; truly gentlewomen in their rela-
tions to the world. Some ono says:
We have careful thought for the stranger
And smiles for the sCme time guest,
Yet we vary our own, with look and tone,
Though we love our own tho best.
spoke Of reserve as part Of politeness
parent can not i'm. art hi cher sense Of
delicacy and honor more surely than by q
re epect for each childs individuality as pro-
found as for an equal have never forgot
ten an incident Of my childhood. was
away from home for few days, and on my
return the younger ones fell on me at once
Letters had come from two absent brothers,
they said, and addressed to me; so to all
their entreaties to open them our mother
had said no one could do that but myself,
and they thrust the envelopes in my hand.
Could daily lecture have taught tie pre-.
cept in so sure a manner as that practice
Olivia Lowell Wilson In Good Housekeeping