Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-03-20
wOMEN's ROUND TABLE.
cBy Andrea IIefer)
a PROFESSION FOR WOMAN.

the counsel in this article will be
very distasteful. The career of a
wife and mother has little apprecia-
tisn their eyes. It is not enough
appreciated by a large share Of both
sexes. But the remedy for this is
Ia the women's own hands. If
they would have an honorable pro-
fession, they have only to do quail
ity Of work that is worthy of honor
Surgery was once branch of the
barber's trade, and certainly no more
hOnored than housework is today;
but men have made study of IT.,
have given It broad, scientific
basis, invented instruments and
processes 10 increase its efficiency,
and arranged systemetic mode of
learning its practice, with the result
that the surgeon of today has one OF
the most honorable of professions.
In similar way dressmaking
which is q trade in the hands OF
women--has been made profession
in the hands of one man. The or
dinary dressrnaker gets little respect;
Mr.. Worth is held In high esteem,
and the difference is he does work
which compels esteem.
The ordinary housewife and
mother takes little pains to learn her
business; she follows rule-of-thumb
methods handed down from her
great-grandmother, introducing no
improved processes or appliances,
and feeling no shame If her home is
ill-managed or her children ILL
trained. If women doubt that
competent administration In the
home would win the same esteem
that is paid the competent sur
geon, or lawyer, or merchant,
or college professor, they should
recall the Roman matron, Cor
nelia, whose fame has already
lasted for nearly score of centuries.
With her spirit the modern woman
should say Of her home, This is nav
diplomat" and Of her children,
"These are my degrees. ."-Editor
Popular Science Monthly.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF A CHILDs
POCKET.
When we study the child closely
we .d2d that his instructive action
indicates his nature and generally
peints TO the right way of develop
ment. Very soon after a child
begins TO demand possession Of his
own he begins to demand IA space of
his own, particular chair In the
room and a certain place at the
table, an individual corner. This is
the germ of the home instinct. "A
presentiment that houses and rooms
are the fostering and sheltering
places of the family life," explains
Froebel, ''is perhaps the reason why
children like so much to build
houses aud rooms" "In child
hood" says some one, tone feels as
never again the poetry of a corner,
the little space shut Off from the
larger space which incloses 1t.
''Suoh, too, II the poetry and mys-
terry CT pocket. A pocket is a
symbol; IL means the most intimate
outside space; the place apart, pecu'
liar, sacred, inyiolable, where ones
special possessions are preserved;
where q free creature can bestow his
property In complete separation
from the general possessions"
Every child should not only have
his own possessions, but his own
place for bestowing them, and as
soon as possible his own private
apartment. This tends TO aid and
strengthen his development us an
individual, which must keep pace
with his development as a member
OF the family, or his development as
part OF universal mankind. What,
then, is the injury done TO your
child IT, when he turns to you, his
court Of justice, with the complaint
that brother or sister has his place,
and you reply, "rhat makes no diff
ference; LET your brother have itGn
Not only Is his sense of justice
violated, but the strong instinct,
the beginning of the desire for a
space OF his own, for home and a
family.
Ownership Is strong sense In us
all and unless guided from the veri-
est pocket possession TO houses aud
lands II IL troublesome quality.
Train the pocket.
AN ORANGE RIBBON.
Has anyone ever tried TO conceive
OF the bare and unadorned appear
ance Of life without that tiuttering,
gllntlng thing known as knot OF
orange ribbon? II Is 10 room
what a butterfly is TO graden and
sunbeam Ia 10 n cellar; indeed, Il is
itself sort Of caught-up, knotted-up
sunbeam. II has Just the same way
OF shining out OF dim corners, defy
log the eh0n blackness Of piano legs,
aInnualsuuul..Hull11l.lull1.