The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-12-06

1t is a hard question to answer, yet it
comes to US more than once in a life time, as
we travel from place to place. Where do
so many poor housekeepers come from? We
make calls here and there, but everywhere
with the samer result. Neglect is the cause.
Pride s~ustains it. Some of these young
housekeepers, the daughters of model
mothers who wear with them the very air
OF neatness. Who then do ourgirls pattern
after? Echo answers back. In youth they
are SO we'll cared for, their slender arms
must not bear even the smallest burden, as
it might overdo them. So they grow up
into womanhood. Then they must be
educated and fitted for some position in
life where they can support themselves.
They go out from home knowing very lit
tie or nothing of home cares. Mother has
never left the least thing undone for them
to do. She has always done the work and it
would seem strange for her not to do it
now. OIL girls, remember the patient
toiler who goes from the early hours of
dawn until the closing of the day like some
wonderful machinery never firing, yet in
time will wear out. How many little things
you might do for mother, which in time
would prove beneficial to yourself. Go
down in the kitchen and adopt mothers
plan of doing things. Hers is a lifelong
experience, which makes her an able teach
er. Learn of her and her value before you
60 out to battle with the world, which now
appears SO beautiful. You viii need all
the home knowledge you can possibly get.
Then you will be better prepared to take
up other studies. BY learning mothers
way first you will be an excellent house
keeper, a neat sewer and a helpful nurse.
In time all that you have learned will
work into usefulness, and you will wonder
moments thought will bring back to me n
orY lit was mothers way" The time may
come when mothers weary form will lay
beneath the sod, and you may be teaching
your own little ones who are springing up
around you the one useful lesson of life, to
help mother. Be useful IN youth and use
fulness will weave for you a crown of new
er fading beauty. Make yourself useful in
life. Young girls so often say Il wish |
could do something" They sit and dream
of the time and of what they will do when
they are grown up, building great hopes on
a sandy foundation, or rearing castles in
the air. Always do the first thing which
comes before you, whatever it may be, the
disagreeable dishwashing, busting or mend
ing, it all has to be done. These things
faithfully done, make useful women.
What is worth doing at all is worth doing
well. Some of you may not care for house
work, your thoughts may soar high above
a steaming kitchen IN a hot summer day;
but there is where you will find mother,
with flushed face, working as though her
very life depended upon how much she ae-
complished before night, while her helpless
daughter is sitting in the coolest place she
can find and working hard with a fan try
ing to keep comfortable. Girls, help moth
er. You may not always have her with
you, the slave of the household. Take of
pride and put on the largest apron you can
find and place yourself firmly by mothers
side, then your building will stand firm on
the rock of womanly usefulness.