Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1889-11-16
RESI- AND REcRgATIoM.
They Are Absolutely necessary to Women
In All CalIIngs.

In. All Calllnga.
Social debts nowadays must be paid
as promptly as the interest on note.
Society has become exachng. and shows
its Indifferent creditors no mercy. 1t is
lamentable fact, also, that although tho
situation is improving, very few render
for the world the very best that they
are capable OF doing 1t no longer says
that the mind which created Aurora
Leigh would have been better occupied
in interpreting the mysteries OF house
keeping. 1t does not inquire il Harriet
Hosmer can darn and knit 1t at last
comprehends that the hands which can
successfully WELD the pen or the chisel
do better to relegate tho homelier tasks
to those who can do nothing else This
is not meant as an differentiation OF
housekeeping, which requires skill and
wisdom; but one star differs from an
another in glory, and all are not ex-
pected to shine in the same orbit or
with the same magnitude. But at last
IL is permitted women to choose their
work, In q measure, and do that to
which they are best adapted. Still they
have not availed themselves OF tho
change as they might have done, and
must do If they expect entire success.
Few persons, men or women, can apply
themselves to more than one profession
at time.
Yet the woman physician comes from
the bedside OF her patient and sits
down at the sewing machine, or looks
after the cook or the chambermaid TO
see that they have not left undono the
things that they ought to have done.
There are many married school teach
ers who keep house and manage
schools, and, since they are not omnlp-
otent, fail to do their best in either.
In these days OF endless averages. pro-
tracted examinations, and complicated
reports, the school responsibilities
ought to be sufficient. Yet they wash,
iron, cook, sew and house clean, and
the result Is diseased nerves and shat
tered health. They are old aud worn
out when they should be in the vigorous
prime of life
AS a rule overworked women have
no one to blame but themselves. They
begin their married life by doing things
no reasonable husband would expect or
require, but to which he finally be-
comes accustomed and accepts as a
matter OF course,
The sewing machine has been do
vourer of strength and leisure, and in
the tucks and ruflles it has made posi-
BILE has been probably more Of bane
than blessing.
The mother who spends all her time
in making elaborate clothes for her
children should remember that neces-
sary comfort and cleanliness and taste
may be had with half the expense and
labor which she sees fit to bestoN on
them. The personal care and compan-
ionship are worth more to them than
all the lace and embroidery and ruilles
that ever were devised. Money will
buy clothing; nothing will buy that care
and sympathy which she, OF all tho
world, can give them. Human strength
has its limits, and If it is wholly ex-
pended upon the unnecessary, the inn
portant and vital must suffer- More
than all others do the mothers of
families need rest and recreation-rest
that they may be fresh and full of
cheerfulness and courage, in the face of
the ceaseless demands made upon them;
and recreation, which relieves exist
ence of monotony, and enables them to
return to the old routine with clearer
vision, and with stimulated interest in
what, otherwise, must become dull,
Joyless ground. Chicago Inter Ocean.