The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1886-11-06
UNMARRIED GIRLS.
Some Hints to Mothers Whose Daughters
Have Failed to Wed.

Some Hints to Mothers Whose Daughters
Have Failed to Wed.
Thomas Hughes says there is pc
culiar charm about the words Zones
own which if takes a man or a boy
long to find out, but l doubt if there is
woman who from babyhood has not
recognized that charm. Let us then
think with more consideration than has
been our wont of those women who
have never taken upon themselves the
pleasures and cares of welded life, but
whose lives have been given up to 9th
ers far more than have those of the ma
iority of their welded sisters.
One such woman has charge of a
household whose inmates are an invalid
mother, feeble grandmother and
bachelor brother. She makes the
home happy for them, and with what
return for this sacrifice of her girlhood?
What are her privileges? She can not
order dinner served according to her
own ideas, and to change the hour of
meal or ask friend in without first
holding family consultation would be
considered nigh treason.
1t is possible that even mothers are a
little too selfish and eXacting toward
their unmarried daughters. There is a
widow with three unmarried daughters
of uncertain age" 1t would be a de-
cided convenience to the musician of
the family if the piano could be moved
to another part of the room. She speaks
10 her mother about it. The reply is:
Il see no reason, Emily, why it should
be moved; it has always been there.
When you have a house of your own
you can have the piano just where you
choose"
How many mothers finished their
sentence in this way? Is it not possible
that remarks of this kind may have
something to do with the numerous i'll
assorted marriages we daily hear of?
The innate longing of our woman ma
ture to have something to call our own,
TO do with as we like, must be gratifie1,
and CRAFTY it we will in one way or an
other or die in the attempt.
Could not a mother without loss OF
dignity divide her dominion, giving each
daughter province of her own? Even
room in VIII Oh she can do exactly as
she pleases and exercise her individual
taste will do much toward making her
happy, and the daughters must be made
happy as we'll as the sons.
We hear and read much on the sub
ject of making home pleasant for the
boys, but few words are ever said about
making home pleasant for the girls.
There is species of injustice about
this which those who have not observed
girls and their ways closely may not
have seen. They, too, have tempta-
lions and many little trials and diff
ticulties to overcome, and of them it is
required that they shall be always cheer
full and amiable.
There is another family with one I'M
married daughter still at home. She
does much of the housekeeping and the
family sewing. but her recreation, that
which she loves above all else is her
palette and brush; and yet even her
time is not her own. She has not one
uninterrupted hour during the day.
Patiently, day after day, she puts aside
her canvas TO fit on mothers dress or
sew on fathers buttons, CT see that the
spare room is made ready for mothers
friends, and day after day and week
after week the work she longed to do
has had to be put Of till some future
time which never comes.
This young woman is type of c'ass
whose burdens are heavy because made
up of numberless tribes. Can we not
by little more thought for her who
thinks so often for others add some
thing to her pleasures?-Kate Natson
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