The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-04
TIRED WOMEN,
Some Suggestions as to How They
May Be Benefited.

May Be Benefited.
COS GREENE AVE, BROOKLYN, N. Y,
April 2.-"My body is crippled, my soul
shriveled, and my heart broken with house,
work"
Now isn't that a strong and piteous state
ment for a woman to makel
II never have a moment to read nor have
l had for fifteen years. When the last
thing is done at night am deaf. dumb and
| blind with fatigue, aud yet when go to
bed / am so tired and ache 30 in every
muscle and bone of my body that cannot
| sleep. A neighbor came In and read me
something you had written for our paper
about women doing more work than they
ought to. 1t made me feel bad because
had always thought was doing my duty
and am sure / don't see how l could do
less and make my family comfortable"
would like to give the whole of this pa
thetic communication, but haven't space,
so | will boil IL down. This woman has bad
eight children in fifteen years and they are
| all living. The eldest is a helpless cripple,
and another one has a hip disease. The
father Of this large and interesting family
| is a farmer who was born tired. From the
acres which he inherited he managed to
raise enough vegetables for his family.
The wife and mohter does all the work and
sometimes mtlks the COWS when her hus-
band is busy haying. Now this woman
asks me to tell her how she can help herself
to a better and easier life, and l
am as dumb as clam. She has
looked up to this ignorant, thoughtless, I'M
ambitious man as her master, ordained by
God to rule her short span of life, and en-
powered to use and abuse her womanhood
as the whim possesses him. She is his VIC
tim, and that is the long and short Of the
story. Eight children in fifteen years, all
delicate, and two with incurable disease
and still the work goes on. II have never
had Il nurse in any of my confnements,
this two-thirds-dead woman writes, land
have had to rely on my neighhors for a
week each time to provide the food and
take care of the milk for the family"
Now this is by no means an isolated case
Letters as pathetic and as hopeless futter in
to me from all parts Of this great country,
and sometimes they make me so mad that
feel as tall and as strong as Goliath but the
jaw bone of the ass Stays me every time
Precedent aud education are solid walls,
and the only way is TO climb them peace
ably, and reach the other side with kind
and Intelligent message. 1t is no use to
kick these walls. They will not give an
inch that way, but they will at least be
leveled to those who have the courage, the
tact, and the agility to scale them. For
heavens sake, let all Of us who can think
logically and fairly upon these subjects
aud women. In the meantime let us be
tender and charitable, and loyalty give
our aid to the unfortunate victims
of perverted idea of these
human relations. Men should GER
taiuly be as careful Of their wives as they
are OF their horses, and women should al
ways be sensibly considerable Of their hus-
bands. When women know enough Of
practical physiology to work with muscles
and not with their nerves. TO rest as we'll as
to labor, and to leave something uhdone
rather than to overdo themselves, we shall
begin to have better race. But in the
meantime what special service can we rem
der our unhappy and broken-hearted sis
terst What can be done for this women
believe that God lesvened the material
from which l was constructed with an or
Limism which has risen to almost every 90
casion, but such histories as the
above have the effect of making things
look very small and impoverished.
The only way to help that l can think of in
such cases is for our intelligent and com-
fortably situated women to go practically
20 the aid of such suffering and despair. A
little true sympathy. a wish TO help, low
ing service from those who are able to serve,
will, am sure, work wonders. Some OF the
best work in this city is accomplished by
ladies in these sweet and gracious ways.
The Rev. T. Dewitt 1almags is said to
hpProNe VI Cho aeCoWpC u IT. al AnuIsb
to call the attention of American citizens
to the loose manner Of our public officials
in conducting the affairs of our large cities.
American citizensW / wonder II all
the women who read my letters are aware
that they are not American citizensl do
not realize this fact every day but when l
do l feel about as small as a South Car
DINA peanut. Isn't it outrageous
that women OF brains, women
of education, experience, and con-
science, women who pay taxes. are simply
political nonentities in this year Of our Lord
1929 What is the matter with DIR. Tai
mage and DR.. Parkhurst and all the rest of
these men who are talking 80 much, that
they have not sense enough to see that they
can do only half work without women to
help themf They know it, but they are
afraid to speak. ELEANOR KIRK.
Il - Il