Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-04-25
The Servitude or Mothers.

Women have q hard time M mo+to-
now you look at it. ~ ""''ei
How would a military man lilo -
o ouo. ufess parade from cradle to the
grave? That's what a woman bas TO to
A man can luxuriate in mental dress.
ing gown and slippers half of his lfe
an9 scietch his arms and put his feet nm
ano take tate easily, but a womanscan't
snake the harness off and have a GOOD
hlng a any direction whatever for ona
moment, without paying for it for a
gear. 7 luz d
Ii a man has ten minutes in which IN
Keep an appointment he can iump into
us clothes anyhow, run after a car. get
Inere on Tune and eve turn a hair. A
woman's hooks won't nook, her buttons
won't button, she loses one glove. her
nalr came out of crimp and she can't
eve swear at the conductor who
wouldn't pull the bell-rope till after she
mad walked a quarter of q block and
partly dislocated her arm that brand
lshed her umbrella. She is fifteen
minutes late, and the men all sneak
maledictions under their breath at the
woman who never can be on time.a
While the fellow who took a fancy to her
on q former occasion discovers that she's
q guy with her face flushed and her col
lar awry, and never looks at her again.
When things go wrong with a man he
can neglect his barber for q day or two
and forget the brilliantine for his mus
tache, and grow black and hollow
around the optics, and ten to one he
Will simply seem in female eyes 80
Byronic and interesting, you know"
But q woman may have a. thousand
gnawing devils at her heart-strings, and
she's obliged to put on just SO much
poudre de riz, and to pull out the gray
hairs on her temple, and pinch the
wrinkles out between her eyes all the
same, or she's handed over to the world
by her hundred most intimate friends as
such a wreck, my DEAR" and the jury
on the case, and eve her lawyer, begin
to find excuses for the husband.
If a man has weary nerves and a
humping headache, nothing prevents
his coming home and tying,a towel
about his brows like q Turk; and being
as grumpy as one the rest of the e
ing. But a woman in the same case can
only look longingly at her old wrapper,
and then go and painfully bind up her
Psyche not and an agreeable smile at
exactly the right angle, else she will
hear that Hang it! It's enough to
drive a fellow to his club to have an I'M
tidy wife lying about on the sofas!!" and
that "the deuce knows why Il woman
always manages to look pretty before
marriage, and never after"
1t is generally supposed that if a wc-
man can only sit down and have a good
cry that is panacea for all her woes.
But when she finds out that the indul-
gence makes her nose red and sweits it
she has to give up that satisfaction
along with the others. A man may ex-
hibit fear]essly, upon occasions, a car
mine proboscis produced by causes far
less confessable, but a wife is pro-
nounced not half a wife and woman if
size shrinks from him on that account.
In fact. being a at all is a
snare and delusion.
1t sounds very, very nice, but it's
awful. A woman isn't ever allowed to
grow old in peace. Going the course
of all nature is just the worst crime she
can commit. Ii she isn't married her
brothers don't forgive her for it, and if
she is married her husband won't.
SO there it is; a bore any way you
look at it.-St. Louis Stor-Sayiaags.