Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-09-22
WOMAN AND HOME.
HOW MANY GOOD WOMEN FALL
BEHIND THEIR CHILDREN.

'Aiargaret Of Sew orieans'-rwo Kind.
Of wcmvn--she owns stage Line In-
expensive Dishcloths- boiling Miik.
Advice to Mothers.
"why should q woman NJ the age of Tor.
~ be-, in any sense Of the woul, pnssrfn
asked Mr.. Terhunc NJ tho Montana Lake
assembly. Aud then she answered tho
question In u paper that was fall Of the
simplest yot the fnddrst and most pathetic
sentences that one Is likely to heat for
many day.
Mrs. Terhune pointed ont that after the
nge Of forty the mental forces NJ women
Arn at their best, aud yet the sunset Of her
life i darkened. Take the average cnse.
a woman Of twenty MARBLES. She il hand.
some, intelligent aud educated. She has
Rad she has bathel lit IL In the sea ~
thought aud looked with wondcrmcnt
upon it, pillows. She has even dreamed
OF voyages out there where stately ships ~
splendid minds are grusping al the Winds
that blow aud aru pushing for the port Of
progress And then she turns 70 her duties
~ wife.
At first she follows her reading and tries
20 keep mp with the times, but Il keeps
her husier now than II did. Then the
children come, and she Is 20 hnrrlcd. Her
work l. 30 unending and 20 cXacting. She
finishes ono task only 10 find Il has brought
her 10 tho threshold Of n hundred now
oucs. SHE thinks sometimes of the cul.
turc she IA losing, hut she has no time.
Here arc duties that will not DO waved
aside She n good mother, and her
children shall not be- neglected.
She luscs her touch with the women
whose cares are lighter She fnrgtts much
that she once know we'll. She bends every
energy that TIN children may have ndvan.
tngcA She would feel that she had done
selfish, an objectionable thing II she fat
down 10 rcnd or 10 study when there were
tasks demanded OF her by her husband or
her children.
Presently she sees that the boys and girls
have discovered that mother does not
know. How quickly children come to that
They compare her with some ono aud sha
suffers. Without meaning II or knowing
u she loses interest Ia the things that in
tctest them. She never would have thought
she could do thnt. 10 avoid Il 10 the very
thing for which she sacrificed, herself.
Che has made duty her slave so long that
duty Is her MASTER She cannot escape
FROM tho treadmill she has builded. She
goes her weary way I'LL the day X done,
and even IA sleep she drrams Of toiliug.
All her associates drift further and further
from her Her circle narrows TN She stands
In the ccntcr-alonc. There Is not throb
from her brain that Is answered by a
though, from the world, and she knows IL.
Has she done bcsti Would 10 have been
solishness for her to neglect the children
little Ia unconscious infancy to keen pace
with them better Ia acute maturity Docs
she not quicker lose hold OF them, lose
guidance Of them when they can outrun
her outthink hcrf And when they have
gone and left her alone, and the echoes are
loud where laughter used 10 live, what has
Hhoi Neglected, forgotten, uurequitcd,
unthanked, In many things ignorant, In
many things dull, the measure of suffer
INK that must he hers viii simply be- the
measure OF possibility that was hers the
day she wed,-C Chicago Herald.