Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-04-03

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-G she takes the
trouble to make one at all-that "it is
SO much more comfortable" has little
idea of the possible consequences of such
q course
Gould she but realize that her dress
is an evil example to her daughters, and
one productive of consequence that will
reach far beyond her own span of life;
that her husband and sons can not fail
to draw comparisons between her dress
and that of the ladies they meet in other
homes, and that these comparisons can
not fail to decrease their respect for her,
she might be induced to give more at
tention to her personal appearance.
Not even the burden Of care and con.
slant employment can furnish suffi-
Gent excuse for personal habits, for
few things are more important to the
well-being of family.
There is an old saying to the effect
that an untidy mother has disobedient
children; and while neither parents nor
children may realize the wherefore of
it, yet there is always lack of respect
and Indifference to the authority of a
mother who takes no pride in her
personal appearance
And it is not the mother alone upon
whose shoulder rests the burden of re-
sponsibility for home neatness and order
in dress, the father has his duties to look
after as well, and should never fail to
insist upon the younger members of the
family presenting themselves with we'll
kept hands, clean faces, neatly brushed
hair, and orderly dress, at least at every
meal where the family assemblies
Selected.
Brought Back Days of Long Ago.
I saw the tears steal down the fur
rowed cheeks of q white-haired man
one evening at small dance, as he
stood beside woman who was using q
sandal wood fan. With sigh in which
there was far more of the sweetness of
recollection than the poignant sorrow of
regret, he smiled through the tear drop
and said: MADAM, your fan wafs me
back to youth. I stand, boy, beside
the idol of my youth, and see the soft
blue eyes and tender grace long since
dead. The daughter of an old sea cap
tain, whose home, like many another
Massachusetts house, was filed with
trophies of his voyages, there was ever
about her the heavy languorous breath
of sandal wood. For many month I,
although perfectly conscious of its
presence, could not place the sweet sub
tie aroma, but after long time learned
that her most precious belongings of
the purely feminine order were kept
folded away in curious old sandal
wood chest, which had been brought
from the far East to impart it's rare fra
GRANGE to the personality of Yankee
maiden. Madam blames the fan and
not me if my tongue is mute. I dream
my dream all over again tonight and
thank you"
All! this is by no means rare in
stance of menory's magic power. Heart
strings often vibrate with faint, aching
strains when but the breath of a flower
fills the air. It needs but this scarce
perceptible truth to throw open those
portals of the land of day-dreams which
are guarded by the tender spirit of re-
membrance as we'll as by the bright
angel of hope. 1t is only the delicate
joys of soul and sense that soften the
cold hard facts which pile themselves
about us with every added year. Every
lovely adjunct that may serve to arouse
in any piece of poor human clay such
sweet retrospective pictures is charity
to encourage.
Fashion to-day governs the use Of
perfume as it has through all the ages,
for the art of extracting sweet odors
from flowers has filtered down to us
through long centuries of time. To.
day we do not think 80 much of per.
fumeries and cologne waters as of sachel
powders to impart the desired fragrance
to our possessions, and we revive one Of
the most admirable habits of our En-.
glish ancestresses. Small matter VIVA,
IS our own perfume, We scent our linen
with the fresh, clean aroma of the En-.
glish lavender. It lies amongst GU,
clothes in little bags on the shelves, with
our table and bed linen, and imparts g
sense OF keen delight whenever doors
are opened or articles shaken out.
Our Married Women Abroad.
A somewhat prominent divorce suit
now pending in Delaware, has led tc
the expression OF superficial and in.
accurate opinions concerning the ma.
tionality of married women and the
power Of State to annul the marriage
tie.
The American law is that, by mar,
riage, the wife becomes clothed will,
the nationality OF her husband. An
American woman, by marrying for.
eigner. abandons her former political
allegiance. and is naturalized by mar.
riage as citizen or subject OF he,
husbands country. England, however
denies that an English woman loses hel
nationality by marrying . foreigner,
while at the same time England insists
that foreign woman by marrying an
Englishman becomes English.
. A married woman's domicile land
probably residence) must, as q general
rule, be in law that of her husband, but
American law, and probably. TODAY