Wichita eagle., 1888-08-21
WOMAN AND HOME.
WEARY FEET THAT PRESS THE
TREApM!LL DAY AFTER DAY.

The Hanging of Pictures-Hints on Hair
Dressins-A Visiting Housen,aid-The
Observation-Disclosures OF Commissions.
Suggestions for the observation-disclosures.
The way in which homework is looked
upon is illustrated by conversation between
the son Of a thrifty mechanic who owned the
cottage he lived in and had money in tho
bank and neighbor who told the story.
what wages does your father earn,
Tommy
''Dad, why he earns two dollars and half
a day, right along"
"And your
81 earn dollar day"
Sand your mother, wha. does she get?"
"Mam, why she cooks and wzshez and
makes the clothes for ne and dad and the
children, but she don't earn nothing. There
amt no money in thati'
Too many wives Of farmers and mechanics
have found there amt no money IN that
Early and late, day in and day out, the same
weary feet press the same treadmill, with
seldom any opportunity to sec the blue sky
or the pleasant landscape around except
from the windows Of the kitchen.
1t is shown by statistics that the largest
class of patients in our insane asyluns are
the wives of farmers. The sad monotony Of
existence might often be broken up if the
''farmeress" (why may not such term be
coined9 only had little income from her
poultry, butter or canned or preserved fruit,
something that is her very own. have
known a thrifty wife and mother who did
far more toward supporting the family by
her management and forethought than her
husband, who was obliged to conceal a couple
of pounds of butter in the cellar at a time,
or dozen eggs, till she had enough to snug
gle into town to buy fresh cambria dress
TO wear TO injecting on Sunday. That wo-
mans iife had been al famine till her eyes
had the dumb, pathetic look of patient an
NAL. There was not enough life left for
friction in that family
Yet the husband v-as g good man, and
kind as far as he knew how to be- He
owned the farm and the COWS and chickens,
and everything that was produced, as his
father did before him. The wife and chill
dren had enough to eat and clothing sufIf-
Gent TO keep warm. What more could be
wanted3 He never dreamed that the soul
needs food as well as the body, aye, moro
than the body. If one must starve, let it be
the least important They can live and DO
happy on simple nutriment at whose board
sit cheerfulness and love, mutual thought
fulness and personal Independence.
One way Of preventing friction between
parents and children is by giving the latter
an allowance even though it he small. If
daughters were taught how to keep accounts
and make Investments there would lie more
practical sense Of affairs after they became
wives and mothers, the want Of which often
brings discord. \ woman taught TO estimate
things at their real value and who has an in
come TO herself, 70 matter how small, will
not be likely to counsel extravaganza.
After all, fluent nature, a sense Of other
hood as well as selfhood, true sympathy and
the power of looking at life from all sides
enable their possessos to obviate friction in
domestic matters. And what JOY is there
lie pouring oil upon the troubled waters of
family hfe2
If there DO failure then, in the words of
Aniel, ''Tho beautiful souls Of the world
lave an art Of sanity alchemy by which
bitterness is converted into kindness, the gal
Of experience into gentleness, gratitude into
benefits, and insults into pardon
No wretchedneSs can hinder the fact that
the bitter salt within LIES cup may be the
very Ingredient reeded-Hester N. Poole in
Good Housekeeping. +