Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-31
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HOUSEHOLD.

Readers Of Bab's eulogy on Helen Wat
terson win hardly be prepared TO think of
her as q writer on household al airs. She
is pretty and engaging, and syndicate
letter of hers on homework shows that the
thoughtful woman is not absent
She touches upon that period in young
womal's life when absence from home
during the years Of school life has in n
measure estranged her. The girl is dis
traught, and If the home is small or the
income not sufficient 10 admit of more than
one servant, she sees "a necessity for her
help.
To her and to a young wife under similar
CONSTANTS the question arises, shall I take
up the irksome duties or let them aionel
Miss Matterson. like sensible woman,
does not attempt to disguise the fact that
homework is disagreeable, but argues that
the details of no work are pleasant lnves-
tigate life where you will, details are disa-
probabilities, bat do men abandon profess
sions because the hard grind is there!
Life is not Jun and the daughter of the
family nor the wife, whatever tho inteIi-
gence. learning and accomplishments, has a
right to expect it to have no earnestness
'for her
Doesn't like it, (" Of course not, who does
like beating up beds, sweeping dusty floors,
or listening to the rhythm of pots and pans7
If woman liked these what hope would
there be for herl Like and dislike are not
factors except so far as affects results.
The well ordering of home, the minis
tering to the comfort of those you love, does
it not augment your own dignity and add
to your worth in way and in measure that
nothing else doesl Be slattern, let the
genius. of disorder rule, feed your family on
miserably prepared food, and you put more
arguments into mans mouth against wo-
mans intellectual rights than score of
Susan Anthonys can answer.
The first achievement of greatness is
mastery, and that woman whether wife or
daughter who masters the. situation where
God has placed her is stepping fast toward
promotion Yes, know you have an intel
lectual nature and that you wish to nour-
ish; yes, 1 know too, how the majority
would nourish-these women who rebel at
details. They would lounge away the days
in reading sentimental trash, paint a stroke
or two, strum note or two on the piano,
dress and go, and go and dress. Has it ever
occurred to such women that they owe a
duty to some one beside themselves How
about the aging mother who has borne the
burden of details through the years of your
school life2 How about the husband who
daily bears the burden of details in bust
ness? Improve the mind, yes, but is there
nothing in house-work of mind improve
ment? Miss Watterson thinks there is,
and of this she says:
You'll get moro chemistry in one days
thoughtful proving about the cooking
stove than you are likely to have got out of
school books. You'll find more physics in
the plumbers pipe than you did in the big
book you carried in to class so faithfully
every day. You'll find human nature more!
interesting and more natural in VOW
kitchen than in your novels. Don't worry
about your mind. It can take care of itself,
and will grow without anxious feeding, if
it's any kind of mind at all.