The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-10-27
WOMAN AND HOME.
WHEN A WOMAN MOST NEEDS THE
/ cAREsses OF HER HUSBAND.

Women and Their Bank Aecounts-The
Daughter Of 6iasIstone--sIakinH Reef
Tea-shopplnE by Systsn,--Psriod of
Deveiapment-hint,f for iiouselseepers,
There appears 10 he Il curious tendency
on the p'irt q many men tolAvlsh upon the
little ones the affection once exclusively
the wife'S A diyisiOl Of demonstration
would be both natural and gratifying 70 a
woman, but too often she Is Ignored In this
respect entirely. The hoys aud girls are
joyfully greeted by the homecoming IA
theT, while the wife Is enrelessly nodded at
over their sunny heads A wise observer
once said, Trouble comes with the first
baby u it Is coming at ALL" Different
ideas Of government are often the entering
wedge Of dissension, The little one some
times separates the father and mother, and
at its cradle the husband goes away from
the wife In thought and deed Just when
she needs him most. While she rocks that
cradle she thinks deeply, and In the read
justment Of her ideas piiehood Is merged
into the stronger force Of motherhood. She
demands more Of her husband mentally
and morally than ever before, because he
is haby's father, and Is sometimes disap-
pointed.
In thrmatter Of expenses paterfamilias
Is apt TO be more generous in his allow
Rnces for the needs Of the children than
for the less tangible wants Of their moth
or. He admits that clothes can be out
grown, but Is Skeptical about their going
out Of fashion. We are told that mother
becomes unselfsh. For herself, yes; but
Is she not tempted to overlook the claims
Of others In seeking all good things for her
children
doubt II the mother, burdened with
the care Of her child's living and the fear
Of its dying, can half enjoy the beauty
per Sc Of childhood. The outsider can re-
ioice In all the loneliness, oftener with
more appreciative eyes, because they are
not blinded by dread. Heredity, to q con-
scientiOuS woman, Is simply appalling.
How can she punish a child for faults in
herited from HERSELF Can she be happy
rs she notes the growth Of a disposition
which should, for the good Of the race, end
with her husbands lifeG Is 1t possible,
too, for her to discover that her children,
though gazing at her with her mothers
eyes and speaking to her In the tones Of
voice TINT hnsmade the music Of her life,
are aliens In thought and deed
But, some one says, ] know all that;
there are years Of patient care and toll
years, perhaps, when the husband and
wife go their separate ways, one rearing
the children, the other going on alone, alb
Sorbed In business interests, forgetful Of
the woman left behind; but when the sons
and daughters are grown, matters adjust
themselves. Not always. The fair girl
graduate becomes the faded little mothers
rival, and In the devotion Of father and
daughter the wife Is still left out. 1t is
generally the rough boy, with the warm,
loving heart, which makes boys so dear
the world over, who dimly divines the
situation, and with bearish hugs and
mammoth pats cheers and sustains the
lonely heart. While it lasts 1t is the sweet
est thing, this romance between the moth
er anil her son; but, Rlasi 1t Is brief. Some
dainty little maiden takes the lad captive,
and then the jealousy, the acute suffering
fthat mothers heart, who can fathomf-
Helen Jay in Harpcr's Bazaar.