The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-06-04
THE WIFE A MAN WANTS.
The Self-Supporting Woman Make,
the Best HeIpmate.

The Self-SuppOrting Woman Make,
the Best HeIpmate.
The best and happiest wife in this
and the next generation is and will be
the self-supporting woman. 1t is sc
| evident that arguments and proof;
seem superfluous. From a severely
practical standpoint, woman who has
made her own living knows the value
of money, has had experience in max
| ing it go as far as possible, has sown
all the wild oats of small extravaganza
and subsequent scrimping that make
! trouble in many new homes. A dollar
to her represents SO many hours work
not few coaXing words addressed to
papa. She knows what kind of home it
is pleasant to come to after firing
days work, mad what sort of breakfast
is the best founda ton for eight hours
toll
She has been used for so long to look
after herself that it is almost heaven to
have someone ask if she had her rub
bers on this morning, and the trifling
attention will be repaid by a devotion
to socks and buttons which the mascu-
line mind will enjoy while it may not
entirely understand.
No matter how plucky and successful
she has been. the self-supporting wo-
man has been for years very tired,
mentally and physically. with the
weight Of responsibility she has car
ried. If one week has been brought to
a close successfully, in comparative
comfort. and with no debt incurred,
she can only draw a very short breath
before the next one commences. 1t
may be very selfish. but isn't it deli
cious to feel that someone else, whose
shoulders are stronger, has taken this
wearing burden from you, and carries
it easily, too?
What can be more delightful, after
years of rushing down town imme-
diately after breakfast, or shutting
ones self up in study or office early
IN the morning, than to draw a com
Portable, happy breath at the table, and
then set about domestic duties? The
sheltered feeling is indescribable, and
one that cannot be appreciated by any
woman who has not fought her own
battles
Men, as general thing, are good
natured and pleasant enough to women
whom they meet in business way;
but however kind they may be, the wo-
man never can feel that she is at her
best outside of her home.
do you think a self-reliant, plucky
pread-winner who is after all the more
a, woman for all her brave march
ABREAST with men, is going to toss her
mead and give utterance to the hack
neyed statement about not giving up
her liberty for the best man living. and
is there anything particularly desirable
In the liberty which consists in work
ing day after day for food and clothes
and place to sleep barely gained bv
wages which will be lost the moment
someone else is willing to do the same
work for less money?
This applies to every wage-earnine
woman, from the girl who spends her
weary days behind counter to the
successful brain-worker, who is more
envled because less understood than
any OF the women who eat their own
bread.
Just that ability which makes them
successful in their various lines will
make them excellent homemakers for
that takes ability Of no mean order.
VI course, there are women specially
gifted in one line and those whose
talents are greater in another. but in
general it will be found that a woman
VINO is OF no use to herself is not want
ed by anyone else, and the woman
whose employers really don't know
What we shall do now that foolish Miss
smith has made up her mind to marry
young Jones" will make a better wife
Tor that young man than her sister
VINO was brought up at home.