Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-06-23
IN WOM.AN'S BEHALF.
a GOOD WIFE.
Some Of the Things Girl should Look
Up.

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Up.
It's both natural and honorable that
young girls should look forward to mar
riage as the Ultima Thule" of life, for
d woman's browning glory must always
/ be wifehood and motherhood: but bet
/ ter than a marriage without love. Or
I love without esteem. IS the single girl
forever. says a writer in the House
keeper.
Many girls on leaving school seem to
think their education completed. and
there is nothing more 10 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 vet how few seem 10 think it
necessary to qualify themselves for 50
responsible a position as the head of a
household
There is a most important interval in
a wcmans 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 a 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 a 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
as its clearly ordering is concerned
Cherish instincts of taste and neat
ness girls, in every little thing you
have about YOU and order viii breathe
ont and grace from even the commonest
things Some people may cali you
'fussy, but never mind; it is the not
knowing that makes you that.
Don't put even your pins into your
cushion in a tipsy sort of ay. Let it
be a 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 50 at
tractive. Old clothes fixed over
to look as good as new; old car
Nothing helps a person like ,.oing these
things, and it is a real fact that if dis
tasteful at first, houseworll and sewing
will come to be a womans realm in
which such exact results viii be reach
"a, by careful management, that it will
seem like magic.
"Onc 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
eng to rights will not be a 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
ton a set of influences that do more to
mould the setting of the nation 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 or
chiefest source of happiness, let me say
that you viii not find all light and no
darkness, all roses and no thorns. A
young girl, in marrying, sacrifices much.
She gives up in great measure her i'm
Dependence to a 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 d
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
betwe,4 wifehood and maidenhood,
How She misses the mother, the sister,
all the tender felicities of home the old
singleness of heart, the serenity of
mind, the blissful, girlish days.
All She must love long and deeply
and worthily, or She viii feel blank
in her heart, duh, dumb pain, never
wholly conquered, particularly if she
light upon man not altogether merit
ed, or fully eompensating her for the
losses she has sustained
1t IS true enough that happy mar
riage is the best lot that can befall a
woman, but surely. by a long way, an
unhappy one is the worst, and how
many such would be averted if one
looked early 10 the ways of the house
hold and took longer time in deter
mining the choice
WOMEN AS ASTRONOMERS.