St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-02-10

A bright woman writing to the Phlla-
delphia Times talks this way about one
of the latest ideas of one of Germany's
brightest women:
What would the thousands Of our
luXury-loving girls do if the idea OF
Frau Helen Ladge. of Berlin, were car
ried out? This brilliant German WON
an argues that just as German youths
are made to spend at least one year III
barracks, so their sisters should be COM
PEELED to spend year IN klndergartehs'
creches, hospitals, factories or Kitchens.
AS the bows may choose their garrison
aud troop. so the girls should be per-
mitted to select their branch of service,
and should receive certificates of merit
at the end of the year, and those show.
ing inclination or talent for any special
branch should be rewarded by promo
ton and allowed next year to teach the
recruits.
Frau LANCE deplores the way that the
daughters of prosperous merchants
spend their time, and would undouDt-
edly regard our American girls as even
more frivolous and helpless. We donot
20 in for any such radical measures as
Frau LANCE suggests, hut we do want to
say Just few words about the beauty
and helpfulnesS of occupation.
TO the one who has something TO DO
the hours do not lag, ennul and depreS-
sion take their flight before the con-
sciouSneSS of duties to be dlScharged,
an in their performance the blues are
crowded to the wall, the minutes lily, tAe
heart grows light and the character is
strengthened.
OCCUPATION is the greatest known
oil lille NP thn mind and
many Of the body. for in the discharge
of certain tasks. interest in our work
makes us forget the headache or that
feeling of WEAKNESS which we would
have given into if we had only had the
time. All work and no play makes Jill
4 dull girl. as we'll as Stupefying her
Well-knOWn brother Jack, but there will
be lots of time for the employment of
pleasure after the little daily tasks are
accomplished. and if you set out little
plan of work for each day there will be
far more enjoyment in fulfilling 1t ably
than i'll m0ping in idleneSs, wishing for
the hours to hasten their flight.
Aunt PoIIy's Views.
am not sure but that Frau LANCE is
right. Certainly the busy life is the
happy one. The secret Of real happi-
ness is self-forgettuIness, and to forget
self ones time must be fully occupied.
But there are duties enough in almost
any family to keep the girls busy If
they will only do them as they should.
There are the parlors to care for: the
work is light, and it can only be 4
pleasure to an artistic mind to handle
nil the pretty accHm llati0n5 of brc-a-
brac anl dainty furniture that most
mOI,rn parIors hold, and the exercise
gained by the use of the broom is far
ahead of that of the wand in GYM
nlStic exercises. 1t brings more
Muscles into play than anything /
know Of Then there are dainty
dishes 70 be cooked. My dearS, you will
learn when you have home of your
own, thai no one cooks things that
taste so good as those that are prepared
under mothers eye and often by hel
han /. Way not learn to do these things
now, when she can oversee the matter
AMI suys eSt the little touches that many
cO0G3 forget. that mike the difference
between mother cooking" and some
body elSe's attempts to follow her di-
recIiOns? Then there is the care of youl
own rooms, that are often left to SerY-
ants or are neglected until mother in
desperation cleans them up herself.
am not opposed to outside work, by any
means, but these duties are ever pres
ent and help to make happy home, as
well as busy, happy girls.