The Arizona sentinel., 1888-03-03
OVERWORKED WOMEN.
Wives and Mothers Who Wreck Their Lives
 Ikefnre They RealiZa It.

Wives and Mothers Who Wreck Their Lives
 Before They Realize It. We find so many Respondent, over worked women that we can not refrain from giving advice which may help some inexperienced ones.0
 When you marry do not commence to do all kinds of hard, menial drudg- cry in the hope of being called 'good to work" for you will only cOnsign yourself to lifelong servitude thereby. Exact what you have right to expect proper maintenance. Do not marry for the sake of supporting yourself. Do not begin to clothe yourself, your children, and possibly your-husband. Do not give up yourfriends, your social standing, youc educational advantages and your Individuality, because you have married personified selfishness.
 Keep up an interest in the outside world and do not become that most pitiable thing-an uninteresting wom- an. Do not allow yourself to be left behind. absorbed in trivial nothings and fancy work, which is only curse 10 you after you have done it. -
 Have an aim in life and follow it 10 Efe's end. Women have been called brainless, when they were only aimless. Cultivate the resources which you have before reaching out for what lies be- yond you.
 Keep up with the literature of the day, and not work yourself mentally imbecile making rag carpets and mop pinp kitchen floors. Do not let the frying-pan. the milk-skimmer and the baby's dress trimming obscure your mental vision completely.
 Have fewer new dresses to make and more newspapers to read. Lay up less money for your children to quarrel over and squander, and take time to enjoy yourself in q moderate way. before you are disabled by age, disease or overwork.
 Have rights and privileges, and maintain them, and, above all, have pocket-book of your own. One pocket book was never yet large enough for two persons.
 Do not sink to anybOdy's level, but seek to raise others to your own.
 Always aspire and you will never retrograde. Be kind. be just, be for bearing, but never be subordinate. A woman's rights are largely what she makes them. She brings much of hel misery upon herself. She works be- yond her strength. instead of calling for assistance when it is needed.
 Cultivate cheerfulness in yourself and it will speedily take root and thrive in your family. We once knew woman who began to sing the instant she beran to feel irritable and cross She said it was difficult to do so, but it always cured her.
 Trv it, tired woman, and see ii th' old, half-forgotten song of your girl hood does not soOthe your quverlnt nerves and aching muscles.
 know it will be like the dying sal or. singing on the mast of his sinking vessel, but it is more heroic than mak ing discontented complaints. Do no try to carry so many burdens. It like filling the arms too full ot par cels-the arms grow weary and one D. one the parcels drop. Do not turl night into day. Work on the ten-hou system. If man finds ten hours to- long for work, why should his vii work fourteen? Do not work Whe overtaxed nature rebels; it Is not onl senseless, but absolutely sinful. W admire industrious people, but revel ence wise ones; and it is pitiful to SC women spoil their lives before the find out.
 We hope to live long enough to SC wives and mothers take as good care ( themselves as they do of their families and learn to take the rest and comfol which their age-furrowed faces an toil-hardened hands entitle them to- Good Th~"r