The morning call., 1892-06-12

Reading Her Fayorite Journal
quaTrels were occasioned bv his brutal dis
regard OF my finer sensibillties. You see,
when married George just determined to
become model wife and mother, and sub
seribed to all the home papers and the
mothers magazines and the wOman's
friends, ard Pye done my level best to keep
up with them. and tust see the END I've come
To- There's no use in trying.
1.-THE first year that We we're married |
read an article in The True Woman on
Woman and the Home that just net my
ideal, and l resolved that my home should
show. above all things, the traces OF
WOman'S hand. so l set to work TO beautify
It. George had lived in the house for years
after bis mother died, with only man
servant, and it had just got 20 be
a hoTrid mans house. How / worked
over those rooms no one will ever
know. l spent a whole months allow
Ruce on painting lessons because Art
in the Home advised that every woman
who desired 10 beautify her home should
learn 10 paint. I'm sure l did any amount
Of beautiful work. Why, you know those
two big shOyels that hang crossed over the
mantel, with the snow scenes painted on
them and the handles gilded? l did those
with my own hands, and Sketchley Brush,
the artist when he saw them told me him.
self that he had never seen anything TO
equal them. Even George, when l tod him
about H. said be didn't know that be ever
had either. l ainted ever so many other
things besides, aud l had wall-pOcket on
every wall in the house and no two alike.
You know yourself how beautifully nv
house is decorated. l gilded all the chairs
in the paTlOr myself and they did look
lovely, but George had company one night,
and somehow the room was very warm, and
though | used the comp und exactly as
Beautifer directed in her artistic hints for
in Ha ] nTf. ~
came of and spoiled all our clothes, and
George was so angry he actually sW0re and
wanted 10 know why in thunder / cluttered
up the house so. anyway. / nearly got
angry myself, but you know sister Margaret
in her Hints TO Young Wives depart
ment in The Womanly Sky Seraper' says
No matter what your husband may say in
a moment Of masculine impatience, always
return him a pleasant answer so | eX-
planned as gently as l could that l thought
no room was complete, and no house really
hOmelike that did not show the traces Of a
Woman's hand and be actually swOre again,
and said he would rather see traces of a
wOmaH's brain, Then we had our first quar-
rel. | ought 10 have left him then / might
have known we would not be cOngenial.
Next time we Quarreled was about a rug
read in the HOmelike House how 10 make
new kind Of one, and | thought it would
be so nice for George to have to throw over
him at night when ne threw himself upon
the lounge In the cosy sttting-r0om to rest
after supper while / read TO him. We had
no lounge, only tete-a-tete sofa in the
parlor. which is our only siiting-room. and
George was never in the habit Of lying down
in the evening, but the description sounded
so nice 90 was written by Aunt Alice, vino
writes al the Novelties for Home Comfort
in the H3melike HOme). and / thought if |
could make the rug perhaps later on we
could get the lounge, and then mavbe
arn-rrf lfn 4 md I aoH r
him; we might have had such i'm
proving evenings, you know. The
Rev Goose Quill, who writes the
Talks With Outside Pensioners in the
Family Fireside, says If we women would
only exert our wOmauly Influence in such
ways We might save all the men in The
world, but don't know about that, if they
are all such brutes as George. l bought Sl2
worth of wOrsted, broke il all into short
lengths, tied the pieces together and knitted
it all into that rug. / worked hard al it for
SIX months and yet that man wasn't salts
fed. He ridiculed the rug, gr0wled at the
expense, like miser, and said half the
effort and q little more money would have
procured the lounge and bought good rug
for it II never seemed 70 touch him q bit,
the thought OF that rug being all my own
work. Aunt Alice, in her description of It,
said that that, to auy loving husband, would
be half the charm.
but it was after baby came that cur real
troubles began. / read in Nursery Lore
that long clothes were unhealthy and so
when baby was three months old put him
in short dresses; then Common Sense in the
Nursery came out with an article from
their own physician showing that the alarm
ing mortality among children WAS owing TO
their being put too soon into short clothes
and not kept warm enough, so | made some
more for baby that were neither long nor
short, and George said he fOresaW he would
need long purse TO rear that baby scien-
tifcally. As though mere dollars and cents
were to be considered against the eternal
welfare of these little human souls. Our
Home Physician published an article show
Ing what great help mothers could be to the
cause OF science II they would keep records
eG the acts Of babies when they began 10 take
notice the sounds they made, and so forth
Our FIRST baby was really very remarkable
but never could get George interested in
that record. When little George cut his
first tooth the man nearly went wild over II
and actually recorded the date 10 the fam
lily Bible, but one night when ! heard baby
e0olDg to himself, making the most remark
able sounds, | tried my best to make that
heartess man get up and take down the
sounds as near as he could, for | was sure
It would be a valuable record, but do you
suppose he did? Not much. l could not
even make him agree 10 buy phonograph
that we might make the record mechanic
silly in future, and | am convinced great
deal has been lost 10 science by his heaTtless
neglect OF tnat matter.
'When baby began to walk 1t was still
worse Mrs. Nyda A. Linkham, you
know, in the Young Mothers Journal, rec
emmends large pen to keep baby n,
where he can place himself upon his feet
or sit down and play, just as he likes, so l
had one built IN corner of the nursery.
Then Dr. PTescTiber PacebO called atten-
ton 10 the fact that overambitious children
should be Kept off their feet as long as pos
sibe, lest their spnes and legs be weak
ened by premature use, and was sure little
George was overambitious and | had the
pen taken out. and engaged a nurse for him
instead, that he might be carried about and
not allowed to walk, and how George did
rail at that. Said his son would grow up
milksop. and as full of whims as q weather
Vane. Then ! read that babies should be
encouraged TO walk, and that nothing was
better for this purpose than the old fash
iOned walklng-stools. I could not Duy
one, but ores OF Georges great-aunts had an
old Sne. and we procured that and baby
neg9a to walk quite nicely. but then an ae-
eonnt appeared in The Child Raiser, show
Inc 9ow the ! OsitOn babies assumed in
ibese machines had tendency to contract
az ohaef aud deform the shoulders, so