The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-03-30
SATURDAY. EvENINo-

closed With song by the quartet,
SATURDAY EVENING.
BY half past seven o'clock Saturday
evening there was hardly vacant seat
left in the whole opera house. Seldom
has such large audience been gathered
IN the city. The great sttrac-
ton was the announcement that Miss
Maria L, Sanford was TO give her lecture
entitled "How to Make Home Happy
The audience was a good natured one
and very enthusiastic.
Mr.. J. s, Harris occupied about twenty
minutes, before the regular exercises of
the evening began, in an informal talk
on different parts Of horticulture that
had not been touched upon during the
convention. He desired all of the farm
ers to raise enough fruit to supply their
tables every day in the year. An in
vestment of fifty cents in seeds for flow
er gardens would bring many dollars
worth of enjoyment. Trees should be
planted in the yards and along the roads,
and trees. bushes and flowers should be
planted in the cemeteries. He warned
the farmers against buying anything
from travelling fruit tree agents.
The exercises of the evening were
opened by song entitled "The Beauti-
full Blue Danube" rendered in Il very
creditable manner by the Fairmont male
quartet.
Mrs. j. G. Curryer was introduced and
read we'll written paper entitled The
hand that rocks the cradle is the hand
that rules the world"
A male quartet composed of Messrs.
Schroeder, Washburn, Bromley and
Milliken, with Mrs. +. B. Root at the
piano, sang I'm Absence" in a manner
to win rapturous applause.
Supt. Gregg introduced Miss Sanford,
the lecturess of the evening, synopsis
of whose address is as follows:
Not until the shadow OF death invades
the Preside do we think what We could
have done to make the home bright and
happy. Wealth cannot make it happy;
We must make it so.
The first element that goes to make
up home is the ambition To do and to
see-an ambition to make ourselves
something more than mortal self. The
heavy weight of toll, the spirit i'll which
we meet it, should be taken off the
world. There should be heart and hope
put into work. When WOMAN is bound
down in hopeless toll no wonder she is
crushed under it. Don't have AN ambi-
ton to get whole township but to make
your farm the brightest, happiest place
in the world. False poverty is to be de-
plored. The spirit of benevolence
shouldn't be crushed out of person. |
hear about the "poor" farmer at pOlIIi
cal meetings and through the papers
He should resent any such reference.
Contentment is necessary thing. We
borrow too much trouble and think too
much about our troubles. Go about the
duties of life with a cheerful feeling and
your lives will be much brighter. Don't
find fault.
Thrift is another thing necessary for
happiness. When want comes into the
house through one window through
shlftlessness love goes out of the other
Both husband and wife should be thrifty
When a woman does her share of the
work she should have her share OF the
income and not be obliged to slavishly
ask her husband for every cent she re.
ceives. She should on the other hand
know her husbands income and not eX.
coed it. Never buy thing because 1t is
cheap; never buy a poor thing. Wo
man should have her Unborn sense OF
beauty gratitied, both in Der home and
person. 1t will elevate rather than
degrade young girl 10 show that you
appreciate her beauty and notice q
change of dress or tinery. The eye fol-
beauty should be trained. We ought to
study how to make our homes beautiful
Farmers have better chance than any.
one else to have natural beauty about
their residences. A woman should
learn to do what she does well and 10 be
thrifty, as we'll as her husband.
The next point is III regard to food
Farmers should live like kings. There
are too many homes i'll the state where
there is not good food. The speaker stalled
that she was one of those, WHO, early
and late, would fight incompetence; but
poor food was, in her oplnion, greater
evil than that of intemperance. Love
should be mixed with the food. The
serving of food Is also often poor. Right
here, never wrap food in a newspaper
or eat off of an oilcloth. The homes oil
the rich are not always those where
meals are served in the most refined
style. The table should be a place o!
delight. A woman should take pains
with her cooking but she must have
good utensils. Save the waste from to-
bacco and whisky and other like ex-
travagancies and put it into improved
utensils.
Neatness and cleanliness are necessary
to make home happy. Cleanliness in
the cars was referred to, both on the
part of men, women and children. The
habit of splitting on the floor was scored.
Clothes should not be thrown about, but
each thing should have its place and al
ways be put there.
The children should be utilized and
made part of happy home; They
should not be nagged about. Children
should be taught obedience as their
greatest blessing. Spanking is necessary
sometimes but the child should not be
spoken to Grossly. Let them have Il
good time and also enjoy their work.
There should be health in the home.
Many a woman goes to her grave be-
cause she has not had rest. Many a
child is broken down in constitution be-
cause the mother is Slapped OF her
strength befure and after its BIRTH.
1t was a matter to be spoken plainly
about. Women during the period OF
pregnancy should not work hard if care
is to had for them and their offspring
Thoughtfulness comes next The Abuve
wrong is not intentional un the part vi
men but more likely thoughtiessness
Women are too anxious 10 pour out the
phials of their misfortunes upon their
husbands. A husband, on The other
hand, should remember that his wife. II
not strong and that her feelings arc 40
to be. regarded. Take her out for ii.'r
once in a while. The life of husband
and wife should be welded together In
love. Everything that makes life beau
tiful and JOYFUL let Us have. Let us have
religion in the louse-nOt the lUrgfaced
kind, but the kind that emers into all
cur pleasures.
The lectures was frequently inter
rupted with applause and made an ex-
ceIlent impression OH her hearers.
The FairmOnt quartet rendered Noon
light on ia" Lake"