The record-union., 1893-12-01

| down upon you at most lnopportune mo-
ments and announce their intention OF
! spending the day, ana you know that il
| you don't drop everything right then and
! there, no matter how pressing it might
! be, and devote all your time and energy
to the task of entertaining your visitor,
! she'll go off and give you perfectly
! dreadful reputation for inhospitality.
! There is another class of visitors, the
| doting mammas, who come to see you and
! bring their little darlings with them-the
! little darlings wearing Fauntleroy curls
and Fauntleroy clothes, but there the re-
! sem blance to the angelic Fauntleroy
| ceases, for the darlings are usually
| spoiled little imps who make you shiver
with apprehension as they walk about
| you, now eying and handling your choic-
| est pieces of china and bric-a-brac, and
! are pOwerless to demonstrate whilst the
| darling's mother talks in an inane man
ner of this and that, until a loud crash
causes you to jump, and then you see
! your most highly-prized bit of old china
! lying on the floor a shattered ruin. But
/ you must put on you most Indifferent air
and assure the darling and his maternal
relative that it is a mere trifie that can be
replaced any day, but all the time III your
heart OF hearts you are just longing to
have the exquisite privilege of a private
interview with the young culprit, II OF
only few minutes duration. You
think you could teach him something
his doting parent failed to impart into his
Juvenile mind, namely-to leave peoples
things alone and not to go on a prospect
ing tour IN peoples houses.
The last and worst inflictiOn in the
shape of visitor | was called upon to
endure was the woman without an aim
or am bition in lite-whose daily round of
petty doings she regaled you with in her
II lN.l,, 1%l,
Johnny's cold, and the trials of house
keeping, and the numerous defects OF
servants. etc, in an endless round and
with a monotonous sing-song, until you
felt on the very verge of Mysteries. And
when she is gone you lay back in your
chair and fairly gasp until some one
brings you glass of water, and asks how
you enjoy receiving? For answer you do
as l did-scratch Off the day from your
calling cards, and make up your mind
that in future you will not be at home to
every one.
never have believed in the
so-called emancipation of Womau,"
but do believe that
woman can make herself useful
outside the home circle, as we'll as within
its pale and this can be done without
neglecting any of the home duties OF a
wife or mother. Most Of the women L
know have plenty OF spare time on their
hands, which they idle and tritter away,
but with little energy 1t could be put to
profitable advantage, not only TO them
selves, but to their friends as we'll.
--In these days of physical and mind
culture reading club would take very
well. 1t seems to me the members might
form club and with the dues and fines
supply them we'll with the latest books
and magazines that could be passed
around from one to the other of the mem
bers. each keeping them a certain length
of time. Then a meeting might be held
every other week, or perhaps. once a
month, and the members could discuss
what they had read and studied, and thus
keep posted on the living topics OF the
day. The benefits to be derived from
such chat are inestimable, and woman
can thus be given a chance to rise above
the petty details of domestic trials and
petty tribulations. Much reading of
the proper sort will broaden her mind
and make it more fit to be truly
a companion TO her husband, for men
like and admire a clever woman, pro-
Vided she isn't too clever. They would
not endure her if they thought she was
their superior in intelligence, but they
like to talk the present topics of the day
over with her, and to know that she is
able to give an intelligent answer. a
man is proud, and justly so, too, OF such
wife, and the woman is better able to
train and educate her children. The home
lite will become higher aud more eIevat-
ing day by day; insignificant trifies will
sink out of sight, and only the higher and
grander fruits Of life will be reached and
sought for
That is why / scratched my day off my
visiting cards, and why | have limited
the circle Of my acquaintances to only the
few who have brains, and intelligence