Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-08-23

ofttimes wrngs tears Of blood; she founders
about in an ocean of difficulties, striving with
superhuman effort to keep her head above water.
Looking at life through the eyes Of her prince, the
wears of the so-called "nonentty' stage pass away
and she finds herself in the dawn OF the thlrtles
Thirty years marks milestone IN woman $
life From it she either advances rapidly or retro
grades perceptibly If her shoulders have not
bent beneath the burden, they have grown uncon-
sciously stronger. II they have been too weak to
bear up, then she sinks into an irremediable con-
dition from which she rarely rises. She grows
constitutionally fearful and meek. She may look
forward to her inheritance Of holy writ. But even
If she have clear title to the earth she is unen-
viable.
The more she retrogrades, the more meek ana
fearful she becomes. Burdens increase and III
snugly and her shoulders adapt themselves. She
loves to suffer and the world passes by on the
other side.
4Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep and you weep alone"
With tear wells near the surface, burden after
burden alights on her shoulders, and by the time
she reaches the close Of her temporal travels she
has earned her inheritance. "Blessed are the
meek for they shall inherit the earth. i" Woman
weeps great deal before she is thirty. Unless she
leaves tears behind, she retrogrades
The responsibilities that come after this age she
bears with better grace. She has had experience
she has learned the lesson of life, and at thirty
she begins to live. She finds her eyes opening.
To see with ones own eyes is privilege, bless
1;eb int
ment.
True, woman just begins to see at thirty. But
when the prince sees through her eyes, too, ali,
then, she has reached the glorifed state of wom-
anhood. The world needs woman's eyes. 1t has
taken a peep of late-and no one more than woman
herself is surprised at the correctness Of her own
vision.
At forty she reaches the early autumn Of her
supmcrgeu ui1irJy are
Of different nature, and they fall upon brave
shoulders, made strong through continuous dis
cipllne.
At forty-fve the Creator ordains that her duties
Of maternity are performed. Provided she is not
meek and fearful here, she is at forty-fve in the
prime of her life. She has learned wisdom from
the best MASTER Experience, and if she has learned
her lesson well she has still twenty-five years Of
good, active life left her. Now what shall she do
This is merely little query to the persons
courageous, conservative and Neutrality-suspicious.
self-imposed duty in life is to keep woman in her
sphere.
She has lived lifetime of usefulness. She has
done whatever her hands found to do, and woman
like she has done it with all her might.
Do you not think, as long as the babies are not
neglected and she has twenty five years left her in
which to prepare to be boxed up and buried, that
now, if never before, some of her good common
sense seasoning would improve the national pie
tits growing highly unpalatabe and unsatisfactory.
HARYoT Holt.
HE school for nursery maids established by
Mrs. Robt. W. Chaplin in connection with the Ba-
bies Hospital has graduated its first class of eight