The Grenada sentinel., 1888-06-23
WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
BRAINS IN A WOMAN.
The Importance of the Aquisition of Bus
mess Methods by the Housewife.

Inc importance pi INV 4hphisiboh VI N-
mess Methods by the Housewife.
The world is too apt to think that the
woman who is only wife and mother
only a house-keeper only nurse,
confidant 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 as a lady of elegant leis-
ure, or still worse, as drone in life's
busy hive who is supported entirely by
her husband Every house-keeper and
mother knows of the countless steps
and countless cares pertaining to this
high trust. She knows that the posi-
ton of Il housc-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 dime rs 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-
inc obliged to be also the bread winner
of the family. But she certainly ought
to be competent to do this in case 1t
should ever be necessary Misfortune,
disease or death may knock at the door
of the happicSt family. The loved
husband and father may be stricken
down or rendered helpless; then, rest
assured the loving wife will 90 out into
the world and earn his bread as gladly
and thankfully as he ever earned hers
Let every wife be competent then to
meet this emergency if it ever comes
The grls of every family, however
prosperous should have some business
by which to make a 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 a man she does not love
for the sake of getting living.
We occasionally meet the crotchety
rnnN Nruuu who thinks that brains are
dycmcdly Objectionable in a woman.
He seems TO think that if she is a
chemist she can not be a good cook; if
she is q physician she will not know
how to take care of a sick child or an
invalid husband; if she understands
business methods, the market man
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
tn nix it UNIV womanly for woman to do
any thing except hous work and dress
making, and at times he rides his
hobby to extremes, but he is so picked
and pcrmcatcd with his idea that us a
general thing his hobby rides him, He
worries lest any acquaintance with busi-
ness methods should make them indif-
fcrent wives or careless mothers. But
some of the grandcst women the world
has ever seen are not wives or mothers,
Surely there can be no objection to
single woman's choice of her own
work or profession. But let it be re-
membercd that while women have
done large share of the world 5
work, they have still been loyal wives
and faithful mothers, and they will
continue to fulfil this noble mission
until 'rime shall be no more. " The
call of ambition or ayariCe will never
tempt a 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 'childN 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. y
Husbands and babies will always oc-
Cupy the first place in the heart of
woman, else she is neither wife nor
mother in the grandest sense of those
grand words. Affection and faith are
the nobipat elements of womanhG0d.
The love of good woman has a ten
dency to strengthen and purify every
human being that is touched by its
truth and tenderness while her faith
CLEANS like golden star upon eter-
nity's ocean and illumines with its
glory the fair heights of the eternal
mountains. -Saturday Eveming Herald
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