Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1888-07-05
WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT.
BRAINS IN A WOMAN.

BRAINS IN a WOMAN.
The Importance Of the Acquisition OF Bns.
mess Methods by the Housewife.
The world is too apt to think that tft
woman who is only wife and mothel
only house-keeper. only nurse
COMPLIANT ami counsellor of her hus.
band and children. has little or nothing
to do. Especially if she is able to keeE
a servant girl. she is very liable to be
looked upon as 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 house-keeper is no sinecnre.
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 4 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 OF death may knock at the door
of 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 as he ever earned hers.
Let every wife be competent then to
meet this emergency if it ever comes.
Ihe girls of every family. however
.g.osperous, should have some business
by which to make living if necessary.
let US teach our daughters that what
Ter is honest is honorable. and that
~ legitimate work is more honorable
han marrying a 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 woman.
He seems 10 think that if she is a
chemist she can not be good cook; if
she is physician she will not know
how to take care of sick child or an
invalid husbands; 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
think it unwomanly for a woman TO do
any thing except housework and dress
making, and at times he rides his
hobby to extremes. but he is so picked
and permeated with his idea that as a
general thing his hobby rides him. He
worries lest any acquaintan ce with busi-
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 q
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
to fulfil this noble mission
until ''time shall be no more" The
call of ambition or avarice will never
tempt n 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.
her child be five years old
or fifty, the great loving he art that God
has 9 ven to motherhood never falters
in its devotion. Neither business nor
pleasure will ALLEVIATE the heart of
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 ard babies will ALWAYS oc-
cupy the first place in the heart of
else she is neither wife nor
mother in the srandcst sense of those
grand words. Affection and faith are
the noblcst clements of womamhcod.
The love of good woman has a ten
dency to strengthen and purify every
human being that is touched bv its
truth and tenderness. while her faith
CLEANS like a goldcn star upon cter-
nity's ocean and ilumines with its
glory the fair heights of the eternal
Notwithstanding Erening Herald.
THE RIGHT WAY.
The Critical Period In Girls Life and