The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-10-17
ParIor Stoves
$500 to $4,000.
WOMAN AND HOME.
CHILDHOOD MAY BE FRIGHTENED
AND THE LITTLE ONES HELPED.

Sunday Dinners and Luncheons - why
Women Disssmble - Girl In Her Den.
Suggestions For the Housekccper-Pe Per-
sonai Mention Of Active Women.
It is often said. How little is takes to
please a childl" and, when we think of 1t,
healthy, happy youth also, not that exotic
growth, fostered into discomfort by lux
urious indulgence, but the boys and girls
we daily meet, for whom life is so full of
promise.
BY granting fulfllment to some Of their
innocent little fancies we can add much TO
their happiness and content, for often an
tlnbecoming dress, an outgrown garment
ior attire, inviting ridicule, has spoiled the
sunshine for many a young heart.
One Of Amy March's troubles In "Littl.
women" was being obliged TO wear her
cousins cutgrown frocks, and her buddink
~lartistic taste rebelled against purple, which
should have been blue.
lido not think I should have liked being
IN Puritan child, though doubtless they
found much happiness. even with the stern
repression, the lengthy tasks and sobriety
lof their lives, for they developed into peo-
lple of sterling worth.
/ think we elders often fail to realize the
weight of the little crosses we lay upon the
young-with the best Intentions recall a
pittleRirl who will always remember disa-
lgreeably a winter in her childish life, and
lt was all on account of a pair of shoes. Her
little feet, with much swift Running, peeped
$50 often from their coverings that her IA
lther took her to the village shoemaker and
had her measured for q pair Of shoes. oh,
how ugly they were when they were fin.
lishedi The coarse, stiff leather, the great
square toes and buckskin lacings. And she
had to wear them even TO Sunday schooli
There the child failed to find the heaven
lily message. She could but think Of her
dreadful feet and try to cover them with
her short skirts. Every litter or whisper
among her classmates sent the hot blood
rushing through her veins. The time was
one long misery.
How they worel No stones cut them, no
rough ground hurt them. and the careful
father failed to realize the hurt to the sensi-
tive nature which would be remembered
when she was an old woman.
When we give presents TO or needy
young girl friends, while we remember the
substantial things for warmth and comfort,
can we not add the pretty ribbon, the deli.
cate pair OF glovesS How delighted the
young girl will be, who has longed for some
thing pretty, something new OF her own.
not secondhand or made over. In our selec-
tion of gifts to such, let us try to change
lplaces and recall what we would have liked
in the days when the shop windows pos
sessed a fascination like unto the mines Of
lGolconda.
AS we grow old we care less for the triHes
lof personal adornment. The affairs of life
press too heavily npon US to cause any pain
from being Obliged TO forego some pretty
fancy, but by the young these things are en-
ljoyed and longed for.
There Is TO me something pitifui In the
young girl trying with her faded trim
mings to remodel her old hat or much
worn dress. which must do anyway. and I
long and wish that I could give her all the
bright things that belong TO youth.
You would make them vain and frivol
%lous," perhaps you tell me, but no, the In
hocent desire for beauty gratifed will have