San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-01-19
MIXED CARAMELS.
Why Time Hangs Heavily on Some
Wnunanfa Hands.

| Why some women never have time
to stick their heads out of doors nor
ever get time to call on their nearest
neighbors while other women, who
have much larger families, can keep
them in good order, we'll clothed and
fed and still get time to attend all the
| meetings of the church and to attend
to calls of sickness and neighborly
| kindness, IS one of the unsolved
mysteries that men and not q few
| women are still studying.
Now there is Mrs. A, who lives on
the other side of the street, finds time
to take cal of her six children and
her hard working husband, attend
all the regular meetings of the church
and is a member of the missionary
society, and if you are sick she is the
first one to come in and see if there is
anything that she can do to help,
while Mrs. B., of Blank avenue, finds
her time SO taken up in caring for her
pet dog and the hired girl that she
can hardly give her husband an eve
ming for a drive i'm their new carriage,
and don't believe that she has seen
the inside of sick room or a prayer
meeting tor year.
~
The other day Mrs. Snow came in at
the side door and throwing herself
into chair exclaimed II am just
tired to death staying at home and If
you have no objections I'll visit a
little while 1 read all the novels l
could get my hands on, and rumaged
through drawers and trunks till there
il nothing new to be found and as for
the piano I've pounded on that till
all the neighbore are tired and sick
of it,"
Turning suddenly to me she said
earnestly but seriously II don't see
how you manage to put in your
time"
"There is always plenty of work to
do" answered, I" and / manage to
make it pleasant and agreeable too.
/ cannot remember time since /
kept house that I had nothing to
do"
"Well, 1t is q puzzle to me-" she re-
piled, "to know what to do to put in
the time. The days grow longer and
longer and the house seems more and
more like a prison. Mr.. Snow says
that 1 am getting grumpy and cross,
but 1t is only WEAKNESS. If we only
could afford trip to the south this
winter could manage to get along,
but we cannot afford it and suppose
that 1 shall have to get along some
how"
would that mend matters any?"
L replied. II think that II you went
away that you would only want to 60
more and more. To me there Is no
place like home, and if / have to go
away am only ahxious to get back
gain. A few days away from home
at the seashore or at the old home in
the country is an excellent thing in
the way of change but a whole sea-
SOD away would be simply unbear-
able"
"Not for me-" she replied.
"Havn't you anything to do?" 1
asked.
what can I have to do?" she re-
piled. There are bat two Of us and
the servant can do all the work; be.
sides my husbands mother comes
once a week and does all the mending;
the laundress attends to all that part
OF the work, and when things are
worn out one can buy things cheaper
than one can make them. We have
an excellent servant who is good
housekeeper and trusty and leave
everything to her, so what is there
for me to do?"
"Why don't you attend to the buy
ing and mending, and oversee the
housework?"
Because I don't know how and
don't care to learn. If did l would
soon have it all to do. My mother
always told me that if I expected to
have my husband regard me as lady
that must not medIle with servants
work"
There was where she stTuck the kev