The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1890-04-10

Of resistance 10 adverse circumstance
given by active minds is lost. Women o
lively, sensitive minds win 60 through
hardships and stress unutterable withou
breaking down, where q common mindet
female Is crushed and useless. Witness
Mrs. John Adams going through the day
Of the revolution, her husband away
children and family falling III Of small
pox and fever, In dread Of British inva'
sion Of their pleasant Weymouth Land
ing. scarcely less to be dreaded than an
Indian surprise; the cares Of the farm
and hay crop on her hands, living In
want Of every feminine necessity, moi
only Of dress, but such thing as tea,
pins, sugar and writing paper; yet she
went through those wearing years Of sep
aration, and shone beautiful and witty al
the court Of st. James, when the home
spun wife Of q modern Congressman
would have been ruined in health and
looks by the Indebtedness Of those slow
years. We have only to compare the
wives Of some Of the presidents, dull
commonplace women, who carried the
stamp Of their early trials through the
White House, and other. bright women
who bloomed and expanded to their hon
ors till they honored the place, not the
place them. II could not be said that
. n Al ~.
opportunity made all the difference. II
was mind rising above circumstances and
making the best use OF them which left
one woman a dullard, tolerated for her
husbands sake and another beloved and
remembered for her own.
Minds make their own opportunities.
Where one woman means that she has
no time Tor mental culture, another
equally burdened makes her chance cuts
slip from q newspaper and pins 1t where
she can read while Ironing or washing
dishes, and repeats poetry or proverbs TO
herself while going about the house,
counting it no injury to her family II she
takes ten minutes day In this manner
to keep her soul alive and growing. For
the best and deepest cultivation and edu-
cation Is gained in this way, little by
little, wrought into the memory and
worked over in thought till It is part Of
the lonely students being.
Il am too grieved and worried to think
or read when l have time to sit down
with baby" says one woman.
never could have borne what l had
to II had not read and thought Of other
things when rocked the baby or pared
the apples" says another; and 1t simply
shows the difference In the souls Of peo-
pie. Women Of q ine quality Of intellect
viii live through troubles and distresses
which send ordinary women insane, and
come out looking younger than their sis
tiers who have been petted and sheltered
all their lives.
But certain women follow closely the
example Of the old lady on her death bed,
who' reminded that she had led an easy
life, whined out that "Ahe had always
made the most OF her small troubles"
Few women overlook chance to be wor-
ried, and as for ignoring q slight or
ohense, or falling to be worked up and
wounded BY Il 70 the highest degree, Il
would seem flying In the face Of Provi-
dence, sccording to their ideas.
Enough has been said Of the want oil
fresh air and sunshine In women's lives
to last the century out for all the heed
the sex give to II. II women will live