The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-02-14
Interesting to Women.

n WOMAN tnat pets pug ls Dadly de-
moralized.
THERE are more than 5000 women
gardeners in England.
EDISON prefers women machinists
for the delicate details of his electrical
inventions. He says they have more
fine sense about machinery than most
men. He employs 200 women.
PUNISHMENT of all kinds is penalty
for wrong acts committed, while train
ing is simply teaching or instructing a
child how to act under certain circum-
stances; so if you think that punish
ment and training are the same you are
badly off.
BE careful of what you eat. If the
appetite is capricious, 90 without a
meal or two until good bread and but
ter taste good enough. If you ache all
over and are chilly, take hot foot bath,
go to bed, cover up warm and stay there
till you are rested. Above all things,
| don't worry.
AN exchange says Mrs. Jennie Atch-
! ley, of Beeville, Bee county, Texas, has
800 colonies of bees devoted entirely to
queen-rearing. She is the most extern
sive breeder of queen bees in the world.
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eight children, with whose help she
does all the work in the apiary. She
has sold 4 1000 queens this year and ex-
poets to sell 5000.
IT is often hard for the mother of
small children to give up and go to bed,
especially if she has no help, and
everything about the house is waiting
for hands. She is apt to feel that she
must keep up as long as possible, as
there is no one to take her place. True,
but is it not better to give up and rest
little now, than to risk being forced into
that last long rest from which no
mother ever yet returned?
THE Kansas women who have served
as justices of the peace, have rid the
country of tramps. One pilgrim was
sentenced to two baths for ten days,
and hard labor on the stone pile, with
the order that he was to be fed if he
worked, and starved if he shirked. In
nearly every case, one or more baths
were made part of the sentence, and
now that state is said to be blacklisted
by the entire brotherhood.
IT is next to an impossibility to cher
ish very much respect for man W ho,
when at home, sacrifices everything to,
or is governed by, his own appetite;
whose good nature depends upon how
long the egg is cooked, the quantity of
shortening in the biscuit, the strength
!, of the coffee, and who shows signs of
|, sulkiness or fretfulness he would be
ashamed to exhibit to the outside world,
which if thus shown would be promptly
,, resented.
) THERE is not, and never shall be, a
, room in my house closed to my hus-
, band and his friends. If he wants to
: smoke his pipe in the parlor, he may
= do 80. Some dislike the smell of a
pipe. l am one, but l sprinkle per-
tune thoroughly at night on closing
the doors, and then early in the morn
ing throw the windows wide open; in
an hour | have as sweet a room as one
4 can ask for. Now what little thing
), to do, yet how much comfort my hus-
i band receives. Since our marriage he
8 has never left me alone an evening and
4 gone up street with the boys Is not
that worth striving for? So says cor
J, respondent of the Connecticut Farmer.
. THE time was, and is yet to con-
. siderable extent, when farmers daugh-
;. tiers were expected to do portion OF
the work on the farm. They were the
reserve force in harvest, at haying
time, hauling in the grain, narrowing
. in the wheat, hoeing the corn and po-
,, tatoes and sundry other jobs. They
u had but few hours for recreation and
Il none for improvement. But when the
. war came, and fathers, brothers and
= lovers had to march to the front, ther
9 it was that the girls were in requisition
u they soon developed tact for business
'. and to-day we find them in the stores
y in the schoolroom, in banks, in hospi
~ tails, in the medical profession, in thu
:, departments at Washington, and every
= where else where they can make them
u selves useful and earn livelihood
= This is as it should be; they have JUS
as much brain and tact as the boys, ant
all that is wanted is to give them
chance in the race of life and they will
succeed.