Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-13
HOW TO RUN SATAN OUT OF BUSINESS.

Our nttle one nau grown.
HOW TO RUN SATAN OUT OF BUSINESS.
The desire among women for financial
independence, irrespective of class or con-
dition, seems to be growing. A prominent
Boston physician asserts that there is fully
four times as much chronic invalidism
among women as among men, and that
great deal of it is due to lack of sufficient
food for thought.
In the face of this, Henry George goes
about preaching that he looks forward to
the time when nobody will have to work
more than an hour day! What a
wretched race shall we be then Even a
cursory study of DIR. Watts well-known
hymn, concerning his Satanic majesty and
idle hands, ought to show Mr.. George, or
anybody else, that human beings cannot, as
constituted throughout all history, and as,
presumably, to be constituted till they shuf-
tie off this mortal coil, endure such life of
idleness. One can but shudder at the
thought of the condition the world would
soon be in, if but one hours work per
diem were exacted of every man.
Yet there are many thousands of women
Akho do not work more than this, if as
much of downright work Minds once
keen and intelligent become dull under
inactivity; muscles loose their tension,
even bones weaken. Above all, the will,
that originator of energy, becomes i'm
paired. ldleness is like insidious plague,
sapping every faculty we have Moth and
rust corrupt things unused, and bats and
cobwebs seek deserted corners
Most men object to having their wives
do anything for money, as matter of
pride, if nothing more but this foolish
prejudice is gradually wearing away. A
woman with taste of art, literature or
business, can only be happy while exer-
cising that taste. To enter any of these
pursuits without pay would be worse than
foolish, as taking bread out of others
mouths. Those women who are rearing
little ones belong at home-there is no
question about that; but the time soon
comes when the children have to 90 to
school during the greater part of the day /;
and that is the mothers opportunity. If
she can manage it without neglecting any
of the highest and paramount duties of
home, let her gradually enter any line of
work her tastes and capacity fit her for.
A reasonable man will only rejoice when
he sees his wife happy and usefully en-
ployed. He will know that it is our earth
ly salvation, mentally and physically, re-
membering that the cranky, fretful and
peevish women are almost invariably those
whose minds lie like fallow fields, or are
allowed to prey upon themselves for want
of occupation.
1t is not enough that one can manage to
keep busy by pottering around the house,
or running in" to gossip with the neigh
bors, or perpetrating useless fancy work,
or doing jobs of various kinds that better
be left undone. Engage in some earnest
and worthy work, that the world needs
Heaven knows that there is plenty of it
to be done. The field is white to the har-
vest and the laborers are few. Do some
thing in which you can feel enthusiasm,
and which will make you exalt in doing
we'll
"Get work. Get work! Be sure that it
is better than what you work to get"
Too much work is misfortune, but as
an unmitigated calamity, it does not begin
to compare with too little work.
WORTH KNOWING.
A correspondent writes to ask what she
shall do to cure that unsentimental but
soul-harrowing complaint called ingrowing
toe-nail, on which all the chiropodists of
her city have failed. The only infallible
remedy | ever heard of is that used by DR..
Holman, an eminent German surgeon, and
is simply chloride of iron. Here is the
method given in his own words: The en-
tire limb must first be thoroughly bathed
and disinfected with sublimate solution.
Then the nail is slightly elevated and
liquid ferrt chloridi applied to the affected
part. This should be repeated on the
second or third day. After few days Tor
should suppuration occur, do it somewhat
earlier) remove the hardened crust cover
ing the granulations, and check the bleed
ing by an application of the iron solution.
Three or four days later the crust is again
removed, and this procedure is repeated
until the prominent skin folds have been
carefully leyeled. The nail is rendered
soft and friable by the iron solution, and
if care is taken may be excised without
pain, with a scissors or dull-edged knife.
To prevent occurrences, fine plates of cork
are sometimes inserted beneath the nail
As to the proper dressing of the foot,
Mary Anderson-"Our Mary" of good
common sense lis credited with giving the
low-heeled English shoes their wide popu-
larity among American women.
In the culpture collection at the Paris
Exhibition is a much-admired statue, the
feet of which are modelled after those of
fashionable young lady; and the marble
nymph has prominent joints, with big
toes turned back on the little ones, Just as
if she had walked through Already wear
ing the most fashionable of fashionable
boots.
Shoemakers tell us that only about eight
people out of every one hundred have
both feet of the same size. Generally the
lg foot is larger than the right; but now
aud then the right foot is the larger of the
two.
BY the way, have you heard that short
people are now being made taller, by
means of false feet made of cork, into
which the lines of the natural feet are so
carefully blended that the deception is
hardly to be detected. What next. /
wonder?
Children's feet are often spoiled in shape
by being crammed into shoes that look
real sweet to the mothers, but are neither