The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1888-10-20
BOme-Making.

Not every woman is born to he a
hOusekeeper. While the world stands
there will be wOmen to paint, to sing,
to teach, to write, and women to make
crazy quilts-idle women and women
OF business, wise women and foolish
women, beauties and drudges, old
maids and mothers, and women good
for nothing under the sun. There will
be art galleries and printing shops.
schools and factories, homes and ho-
tells, bathrooms and churches, theatres
and libraries, business houses and
clubrOOms-hOuses to suit all ccupa
tiOns. The house, woman and the
work should all fit.
Home making should be a co-opera-
tive business. The responsibility of it
does not entirely devolve upon the
woman. 1t is something no woman
can do alone. 1t is the husband who
gives tone to the dwelling. A good.
fatherly man who likes petting and
loves to pet others fills the house with
love. The mOrOse man. who scowls
and grOwls, or who wraps himself up
in his selfishness and scares his family
away from him, invites into his dwell
ing the evil humOrs which follow his
own i'll nature. The mother may try
to do her part faithfully, but if she has
TO be q hypOcrite to her children in
order to shield her husbands faults
the home is a mockery and the menu
DRY OF it a pain.
In matters of propriety and manners
it is hopeless unless the twain he like
mlndeG. The woman may urge upon
her children the observance of good
manners, but if their father persists in
DONG lll-mannered things e good
lesson 10 the children is a reproach to
him. In material matters as we'll. no
woma can keep house unless her hus-
band lets her. If she has to beg like
a Pauper for every dollar che will have
only contracted views of the domestic
horizon, and the need of the moment
will absorb the dollar. If the hus-
band holds the pocketbook SNAP under
his thumb it will be impossible for the
wife to be a good wife. The woman
must be made responsible she mnst
have o chance.
Solomon gives us a picture of his
ideal woman, and she has her bns-
bands financial confidence. She il \
woman with plans ard resources and
means to work with. Her husband
trusts her; she plants a vincyard:
she buys field when she has consid-
cred 1t she works willingly with her
hands, but she docs not abuse herself:
she makes herself strong and strength
ems her arms. An honest trader. she
looks to see that which she sells is
good; economical, she can afford to he
charitable, and she stretches out her
hand to the Poor. She does not wait
for tramps to come begging. She
does not forget her own appearance.
but sees to it that she has the finest Of
clothing. Her husband cO-operates
with her in the maintenance of her
state, and he is known in the gates |
and is himself One of the dicnitaries. |
Her speech shows wisdom and the law
of her tongue is to speak kindness !;
she looks to the ways Of her house:
she is not so busy with her boarding
and sewing, or reading or dressing,
Or buying or selling, that she has not
to look after the ways of her hus-
band and children. Her children bless
her in their hearts and her husband
her; he tells her for her sake
al women are good in his eyes, but
she excels them all.
And Solomon sums it all up in the
counsel "Give her of the fruits
If her hands and let her own works
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