Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-06-09
IN WOMAN'S BEHALF.
A GOOD WIFE.
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It's both natural and honorable that
young girls should look forward TO mar
riagc as the "Ultima Thule of life, f0
u woman's crowning glory must always
be wifehood and motherhood; but bet
ter than u marriage without love, or
love without esteem, is the single girl
forever, says writer in the House
keeper.
Many girls on leaving school seem to
think their education completed, and
there is nothing moro to do than to
dress and amuse themselves, and try
and ensnare some one into marrying
them. This may be fairly natural to
look forward to having home OF ones
own, and yet how few seem to think 1t
necessary to qualify themselves for so
responsible position as the head of a
household.
There is most important interval iIl
n woman's life-that between her
school days and her marriage. Then
the useful and practical knowledge on
household matters, needlework, econ
omy and various other points which all
tell upon the happiness of home, may
be acquired.
If habits Of industry and economy of
time are not formed in early life they
never will be- Every girl could help
in the household, having her own APP
pointed tasks. How much better, even
if not obliged to do it, than spending
the time in dressing and promenading
the street, searching for the latest nov
city in dress, or as walking fashion
plate to be admired!
She should make her mothers home
her own in interest. Begin with her
own things, and her own living place,
and when she has made herself wholly
mistress of that, so that it is easier to
do than to leave undone, she has learn
ed enough to keep whole house, so far
MS its cleanly ordering is concerned.
Cherish instincts of taste and neat
ness, girls, in every little thing you
have about you, and order will breathe
out and grace from even the commonest
things. Some people may call you
"fussy, but tiever mind; it is the not
Knowing that makes you that.
Don't put even your pins into your
cushion in tipsy sort of way. Let it
be part of your toilet TO dress your
room while you dress yourself
1t is wonderful to see how much in
genuity is shown by some women, who,
with very little money, make them
selves and their surroundings so at
tractivc. Old clothes fixed over
to look as good as new; old car
pets and curtains, fresh and bright.
Nothing helps person like doing these
things and it is real fact that, if dis
tasteful at first, houseworlS and sewing
will come to be woinar's realm in
which such exact results will be reach
ed, by careful management that it will
seem like magic.
zone keep clean is worth a dozen
make cleans" is an old maxim and a
true one. Manage to clean as you go,
which will save hosts of labor, and give
abundant satisfaction in results. Put
ting to rights will not be separate
task then.
In the realm of home, woman should
be queen. Home should take its hue
from her. If she is in the best sense
womanly, if she is tender, loving and
heroic, patient and self-devoted, she un-
consciously organizes or puts in opera
tion set of influences that do more to
mould the setting of the nat ion than
any man uncrowned by power or elo.
quence, can possibly do.
To those, as we have said, who be.
lieve that in marriage lies their only OF
chiefest source of happiness, let me say
that you viii not find all light and nc
darkness, all roses and no thorns. A
young girl, in marrying sacrifices much
She gives up in great measure her in
dependence, to great extent her pref
erences. She consents to great changes
in her habits, and often in her friend
ships.
In fact, she leaves nearly all her past
life behind her. when she becomes O
wife, and very seldom does she appre
ciate the character of the sacrifice she
has made, even beneath the crown Of
blossoms. Oh, what chasm often lies
between wifehood and maidenhood
How she misses the mother, the sister
all the tender felicities of home, the ole
singleness of heart, the serenity O.
mind, the blissful, girlish days.
Ah she must love long and deeply
and worthily, or she will feel blanl
in her heart, a dull, dumb pain, nevel
wholly conquered, particularly if sh'
light upon man not altogether merit
I'd, or fully compensating her for tn,
losses she has sustained.
1t is true enough that happy mar
riage is the best lot that can befall
woman, but surely, by long way, al
unhappy one is the worst, and hov
many such would be averted if on
looked early to the ways of the house
hold and took a longer time in deter
mining the choicei