Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1889-09-14

think I am. I really haven't had time 10 give the
subject proper thought for weeks. | am just as
busy and just as happy as [ can be-" blessed are
those who have not time to wonder whether they
really are ''pretty well'' or not!
Many men object to having their wives do any
thing for money but this foolish prejudice is
gradually wearing away. A woman with a taste
for art literature or business, can only be happy
while exercising that taste. TO enter any of these
pursuits without pay would be worse than foolish
Women who are rearing little ones, belong at
home; but when their children become of an age
to admit of placing them at school for large part
of the day. then, if woman can manage it, let
her enter whatever work her tastes and capacity
fit her for. reasonable man will only rejoice
when he sees his wife happily and usefuly en-
ployed. He will know that it is her earthly saliva
tion mentally and physically
1t is not enough that one can manage to "keep
busy by ''pottering' about the house, or run
ming in to gossip with the neighbors. or doing
useless jobs of various kinds. Engage in some
sort of work which the world needs. Heaven
knows that there is plenty of it to be done;
the field is white to the harvest, and the laborers
are few. Do something in which you can feel
some enthusiasm, and which you will exult in
doing we'll Adopt one or two children, if you have
the means to do it, and home in which to lodge
them learn kindergartening and teach little chill
dren; learn type-writing; get some hives of bees;
keep hens; learn to play proficiently on some in-
strument; even write q book. To use another
trite quotation,
"Ge work get work. Be sure better what you
work to get"
Too much work is a misfortune but it does
not begin to compare, as calamity, with too
little. Hasn't some great writer said-he ought
to have said it, if he hasn't-'Labor is Heavens
best earthly gift to men and women"
am. Of course, so accustomed to the general
use of this title as to comprehend that the rLaies
Waiting Room" at railway stations is intended for
women as distinguished from men, not for ladies
as distinguished from other women. know, when
the "Lades' Prayer-meeting" is announced from
the pulpit on Sunday morning, that our good
pastor has no thought of inviting the most uncouth
female member of his flock to stay away. think
am even little grateful that the consistency of
his courtesy does not lead him to announce
series of dlscourses on ''rhe Ladies of the Bible
/ am not deceived as to the manners or social
standing of that worthy person who in spite of
her imposing title, consents to be my laundress
when she is announced as ''your washer-lady" |
make no protest when a certain mission teacher
throws over the rude girls in her class the rose
color of the name ''the class of young ladies'"
Yet, with all this, | was unprepared, until
within couple of days, for certain application
of this long suffering name A woman of q low
class, who had assisted ruffan to murder her
husband, and had then eloped with her-fellow MUIR
derer, upon escaping from the penitentary, was
announced in Western paper in the following
headline; "a Lady Convict Escapes" l was then
ready to excaim, elf to such complexion has
it come at last, write me no more as 'lady."-
[Ihe Dawn.