, 1889-09-26
About Women and the New
Freaks OF Fashion.


When brother we wrongcd
If tho next time we met,
We would smile and speak kindly,
How soon he'd forget.
We've many friend who
From earth has departed,
Leaving MS saddenod,
Perhaps near broken.hearted.
/ could smile at the grave
OF my friends; couldn't you?
YOU knew that from heaven
They smiled back at your
If we wish to win love,
And true friends here below;
We must scatter kind words
And bright smiles as we go.
And at last, when we've run
To the end of our race,
Let's die and be buried
With smile on our face.
JENNIE +. WHITE.
Spokane Falls,
CONFINEMENT.
There is no gift in the power of the
fairies who control our destiny which
can be the means of so much happiness
to the recipient as that of contented
spirit.
Contcntmcnt Is the queen of home
happiness. We may have the wealth Of
Crnsus, the fame of Webster, the
beauty of a Langtry, and without n con-
tented spirit, be more miserable than the
peasant who goes and comes at our
bidding merrily humming his rustic
melody.
Like the fisherman's wife so graph
ically described by SAKE, always grasping
something just beyond our reach, and II
obtained at last, our ambitions soar still
higher until
.lll content,wlth royal scope"
We still aspire, and would fain be pope"
While we are usually blessed at birth
Cor vice vorsa) with disposition which
with notifications and variations,
caused by the influence surrounding our
early childhood, we will carry through
life; still II we earnestly strive to do so,
we may educate our minds to u great
degree of contentment even after reach
ing years of manhood or womanhood.
Especially Is it necessary for woman if
she desires a happy, successful life to
cultivate this faculty. Women as n
class live more retired, monotonous
! life than men. The same household
duties every day, with little variety, the
same beds TO make, the same dishes to
wash.
Henry Ward Deecher once said "No
wonder il when a dish breaks the tired
housewife sighs, We'll, thank heaven
won't have to wash that dish again. ~
Happy the woman who is blessed with
contentcd, satisfied mind, who can
find some bright spot in the most
/ clouded sky, VINO can see bright flower
no matter in what tangled hedge it may
/ grow; and who will tell you when you
ask, "ls not your life dun and unevent-
| ful2" "Oh some would consider it so,
/ but have my books; and you know
ones mind needn't float in the dish
water or settle meath the dust and cob
webs of housekeeping"
sometimes her narrow Kitchen walls
Stretched away into stately halls;'
| And often because
Joy was duty, and love was law"
There is nothing which so adds to
| ones contcntmcnt as industry, If one
I does work beyond her strength. One of
/ the great errors of the past has been the
| impression that woman's work should
not extend beyond the home circle
\ Hedgcd about by the prejudice of the
/ times bnst, she has plodded along in
many Instances in the mechanical lite
allotted to her, with u mind hungering
| for food and exercise, until worn out anu
/ broken down in early life, she has died q
/ martyr to circumstances over which she
hud seemingly no control.
| Those days are gone by, we trust, for
I ever. The large percentage OF insane
I people in our land has been composed of
! housekocpcrs, and IL is claimed by the
| medical profession to be owing largely,
| If not entirely, to the monotony of the
work, and the lack of recreation and out
door exercise on the part of these wives
and mothers.
Not only this, but lack, too, in the
strength OF mind and body, clcarncss OF
intellect and courage, in the children
1 born TO such mothers, which is the worse
/ evil of the two. ! once met the mother
of family of five children grown to
| youth and maidens, with pale checks,
hollow eyes, and no hope of ever being
blessed with health; born invalids, and
with dark cloud of death ever lowering
over them; and that mother, her eyes
| filed with tears, answered me as asked
about them i'll these words "Thc life
| time, health and happiness of my Who'll,
| family We're destroyed by my ignorance
/ -nothing else" A sad confession. in.
deed, for u mother to feel obliged to
make.
| At the present time schools of learn.
ing are open to women as to men; and
no less happy her home for those sh,
| loves, because she is capable of convers.
ing equally with her male associates up
on all subjects of interest agitating tho
| public mind.
She dresses just as elegantly, smiles
just as sweetly, and clings TO the arm OF
her attendant just as lovingly as ever
and think bestows upon him Just as
much reverence and respect--if he de-
serves it.
Minds, however intelligent, become
dulled by inaction. However busy the
day, we can lind some few moments to
bestow upon the cultivation of our mind
and every new idea increases our capacity
for intelligent reasoning and the devel-
opment of brain power.
Discomfort is fed by broodine over oui
griefs; rny of Gods pure sunlight
would soon dispel the gloom. keer
busy; not dusting, cleaning and making
home more beautiful alone, but engag,
in some work which will be II help tc
somebody around you. and see how won,
derfully the good will be reflected tc
bless your own lives.
"Be content with such things as VI
haye,' has said the world 5 great teacher
Mary Kyle Dallas says; "lct us try
to catch and hold the will-o-thc-w wisp
contentment in the very dawn of life
while we have nothing else-no money
no fame, no hOnors."
We Should be contented that we live
that We have hcalth--one of the richest
gifts of earth and seldom appreciated
until IL IL gone. We can speak, see ano
think. Sometimes, at least there Is q
blue sky above us. There arc beautiful
! flowers and grasses growing If you dom
own the soil, their beauty and sweet per
frlme are yours just the same, and If 70,
! wait to own the land upon which theN