The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-06-15
WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
BRAINS IN A WOMAN.

The Importance os the Aquisition Of Bus
mess Method. by the Housewife.
Tie world IS too apt to think that the
woman who is only wife and mother
only house-keeper. only a nurse.
confi,ant and counsellor of her hus-
band and children. has little or nothing
to do. Especially if she is able to keep
a servant girl. she is very liable to be
looked upon rs a lady of elegant leis-
ure. or still worse. AZ drone in life's
busy hive who is supported entirely by
her husband Every house-keeper and
mother knows of the countless steps
aud countless cares pertaining to this
high trust. She knows that the posi-
tion of house-keeper is no sinecure.
Rest assured that the faithful wife and
mother earns her full share of the
family income. although she may never
earn dollar or a dime as II wage
worker. She never ought to be obliged
to work for money, unless she finds she
has leisure for it Her home duties
and home cares are enough without be-
ing obliged to be also the bread winner
OF the family. But she certainly ought
to be competent to do this in case it
should ever be necessary. Misfortune.
disease or death may knock at the door
o; the happiest family. The loved
husband and father may lie stricken
down or rendered helpless; then. rest
assured the loving wife will go out into
the world and earn his bread as gladly
and thankfully rs he ever earned hers.
Let every wife be competent then to
meet this emergency if it ever comes
The girls of every family, however
prosperous. should have some business
by which to make living if necessary.
Let us teach our daughters that what
ever is honest is honorable. and that
any legitimate work is more honorable
than marrying man she does not love
for the sake of getting living.
We occasionally meet the crotchety
gentleman who thinks that brains are
decidedly Objectionable in a woman.
He seems 10 think that if she is a
chemist she can not be a good cook; if
she is physician she will not know
how to take care of a sick child or an
invalid husband; if she understands
business methods. the market MN
may impose upon her; in short. if she
knows any thing at all she is unfit to
be his wife. in which last position we
fully agree with him. He seems to
think it unwomanly for a woman to do
any thing except Homework and dress
making. and at times he rides his
hobby to extremes. but he is so picked
and permeated with his idea that rs a
general thing his hobby rides him. He
worries lest any acquaintance with BUSH
ness methods should make them indif-
ferent wives or careless mothers. But
some of the grandest women the world
has ever seen are not wives or mothers.
Surely there can be no objection to a
single woman's choice of her own
work or profession. But let it be re-
membered that while women have
done large share of the worlds
work. they have still been loyal wives
and faithful mothers, and they will
continue to fulfil this noble mission
until slime shall be no more" The
call of ambition or avarice will never
tempt genuine woman to turn away
from the little hands and quivering
lips of childhood. She who would will
ing desert her child has less maternal
instinct than has the female scorpion.
Whether her "child'' be five years old
or fifty. the great loving he art that God
has given TO motherhood never falters
in its devotion. Neither business nor
pleasure will ALLEVIATE the heart of a
loyal wife: only let the man she wor-
ships continue worthy Of her devotion
and she will gladly love and honor him
''until death do part"
Husbands and babies will always oc-
cupy the first place in the heart of
woman. else she is neither wife nor
mother in the .randes. sense of those
grand words Affection and faith are
the noblest elements of womanhcod.
The love of good woman has ten
dency to strengthen and purify every
human being tina: is touched BY its
truth and tenderness. while her faith
CLEANS like golden star upon eter-
nity's ocean and iliumines with its
glory the fair heights of the eternal
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