St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-06-12
Gbe Californian.
John-bury, Thursday, June IL, 1890
WOMEN WHO WHINE.

ly grateful for 1t Is that | have not
to my portion woman who whines
If had, | fear my name would some
time be numbered with those who
have mysteriously disappeared and
II have never been heard of again, for,
with no small amount of good humor
and the gift of being able to adapt
myself to most of the circumstances
of life, | cannot endure whining
woman. | know of one such WON
an, and her husband has my pro-
found sympathy-poor fellow If it
rains, his wife whines because the
sun doesn't shine If the sun shines,
she whines because it doesn't rain.
q If she is sick, she whines because she
Il isn't well; and if she is well, she
whines because she has so much to
do. She has one of those fretful,
droning voices peculiarly exasperat-
81 ing to most people voice that
81 would drive some men to deeds of
s desperation.
She was at our house the other day
whining, as usual: "The fruit sea-
sons all over with and | didn't get
to can half | wanted to, and feel so
s put out about it. I'm so rushed all
81 the time never get to do half L want
n to- Some days | just sit down and
II cry NV baby has a dreadful cold :;
seems to me he always has some
thing or other. What a sight of
] trouble children are anyhow; dear,
i dear You're all through house
cleaning, aren't you? And l have
III hardly begun | don't know as I'll
ever get it finished, | do hate it sol
II What a handsome new chair you
Il - I IL
see how we can get anything new
4 this fall, Henry's business is so poor.
II | just worry over it all the time
There's nothing but fuss and worry
i'll this world anyhow; dear me, dear
me-"
That is a specimen of how she goes
on for hours at time. That is what
II her husband comes home to a t night.
That is what he hears day in and
day out at his table. That is what
s. all day long, depressing and disheart-
ening him, and taking from him all
q the JOY and gladness of life.
/ read lately of bank president
who positively refused to have men
in positions of trust in his bank
whose home life was known to be
81 peculiarly liable to temptation, and
q one cannot help thinking that he
was correct in his estimate of the
s. Hangers surrounding such Il man.
Now you need not tell me that the
woman of whom | write cannot help
whining, that it is a constitutional
8 failing or a tendency against which
she has no power to strive. | don't
II believe it. She is perfectly healthy
and robust woman, and she simply
S needs to brace up; to come to real
S izing sense of what she owes to her
8 self her husband her children and
3 society in general. Her liver may be
Fl partly to blame, but her liver can
doubtless be fixed" as my little boy
says when he wants me to make his
stomach stop aching. She needs to
e bring the forces of her mind to bear
s upon this mental infirmity. Her case
is peculiarly fitted for treatment and
Ill cure by the mind cure" methods,
S. and while | am not a believer i'll the
mind cure" as remedy for cancer
or broken legs, | believe it might
work wonders in cases of wOm-
Ell afflicted as this unfortunate
screature is. Here is a chance for a
sgreat moral victory; a chance to
triumph over the flesh and the devil
for he IS at the bottom OF it all
Zenas Dane in Good Housekeeping
HOME LIFE IN FRANCE.
The source of French happiness is
81 to be found in the thrift of the wom-
en- from the best middle class to the
peasantry. This thrift is also the
source of French wealth. We have
# no railway kings, no oil kings, no
Silver kings, but we have no tene-
s. ment houses, no unions, no work
houses. Our lower classes do not
ape in ridiculous attires the upper
class, either in their habits or dress
The wife of peasant or of a me
chanic wears simple snowy cap and
a serge or cotton dress. The wife of
"a shOpkeeper does not wear any jew
s. elTy, because she cannot afford to
buy real stones, and her taste is too
good to allow of her wearing any
False ones. She is not ashamed of
her husbands occupation. She does
not play the fine lady while her hus-
band IS at work; she saves him the
Expense of Il cashier or of an extra
clerk by helping him in his business.
Ell When the shutters are up she en- OyS
life with him and Is the companion
Df his pleasures as well as of his hard
ships. Club life is unknown in
France, except among the very upper
Glasses. Man and wife are constant
lv together and France is nation
of Darby and Joans.
There is, | believe, no country
# where men and women go through
life on such equal terms as in France.
In Eng land-and here again | speak
of the masses only-the man thinks
himself much superior being to the
II woman 1t is the same in Germany.
In America | should feel inclined to
believe that a woman looks down
upon man with certain amount of
contempt. She receives at his hands
attentions of all sorts, but | cannot
Z say that | have ever discovered in her
81 the slightest trace of gratitude to
man. Will YOU have a fair illuStra-
tion of the position of woman in
France. in England and in America ?
go to a hotel and watch the arrival
"a bf couples in the dining-room. In
# France you will see them arrive to-
# gether. walk abreast toward the seat
assigned to them, very often arm in
arm. In England you will see John
Bull leading the way, followed by his
meek wife, with her eyes cast down
In America behold the dignifed, nav,
majestic entry of Mrs. Jonathan, a
queen going toward her throne. and