The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1895-08-29
WOMAN IN THE HOME.
VOW Often do we hear the ex-
preston, I'VE live in an
age of progress. Quite true


we do. New inventions,
the boast of improvement, the
march of the mind, the buzz of
steam and the scintillations of cleo
tricity are seen and heard on every
side, but do we half realize the eager
restlessness consequent upon all
this?
Individuals-we use the word ad-
visedly-of our own sisterhood have
caught the infection, become imbued
with a sense of their fitness, have
plumed their intellectual wings and
stepped upon the platform to tell
/ how the affairs of State shall be man
aged; others, still more aspiring, are
endeavoring to ascend the highest
seat in the government and person
ally rule those same affairs. Those
/ less ambitious, and of course less ca
/ pable, stand aside, and mayhap, look
on with admiration ut the energy
| that prompts all this, but with feel
/ ing of sorrow in the heart that she
/ should so misconstrue her own nat
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accomplishment of the ends.
We would not be understood as un-
dervaluing the good that woman has
accomplished outside of the home.
We cannot forget the renowned mat
rons OF Grecian and Roman history,
the memorable women OF Scotland's
/ Covenant, or our own heroic women
of the American Revolution, and we
have noted, with peculiar pride and
pleasure, the luminous pathway of
woman in all those field of literature,
of benefcence and OF Christian mis-
sions which have been opened TO her
by our modern civilization. But all
this was accomplished as women,
and, to use a word of recent coinage,
not as "Andromaniacs.
We think the interests of man and
woman too closely allied TO waste
any vital force in discussing the su-
periority of either over the other.
We think them equal in the sense
that the superficial contents of a
square may be equal TO those of a
triangle, yet how materially differ
ent the two geometrical figures. They
are adapted TO different uses, and
there is one place that only woman
can fill, and that is at home, around
the fireside, the place from which
our dear children start on the peril
Gus voyage of life, the place from
which they are TO receive the grand
principle of moral autonomy, and
that broad and generous sympathy
with all that Is best in life; and
though that home may have no evil
dence of material wealth, if the right
kind of woman is there, there is a
wealth of love that no commercial
disaster can destroy.
"She looketh well to the ways OF
her household" and not 60 the ways
of the platform or lecture room, was
what the inspired writer said OF her
, whose price is above rubies."
1t is not easy to perform ones en-
, tire duty in the home, she must be .
resourceful woman to meet all the
= demands. The learned woman, il
: she be intelligent, need feel no fear
; that her five talents will be buried
, in a napkin, should she assume the
, duties OF home, for in its success
I full management, every faculty of the
mind, and every moral attribute oi
! the heart. are called into play some
4 time during every twenty-four hours
Ii is not without an effort that you
5 can make yourself your children'i
I most interesting companion. YoI
T. must have a retentive memory tha
: you may know where to find ev
= erything, from little sisters SUNDAY
: school paper, all tine way down l.
4 her dolls slippers and just where L
- find the needed string for the kit
b little brother is making, and yol
!. must also be capable Of assisting il
= the construction of that kite. An,
: when the boys come trooping in will
n soiled boots, just draw on your stool
O of patience, and remember always
that one yard of boy is worth infinitel
) more than hundred yards Of car
n peting.
Right on this line some pessimis
/. may sound a danger signal, warninI
l. against the possibility of an entir
a self effacement. We do not fear that
- but should that be true she become
! part of, and lives again in the live
Ia of her children, as hear the word
,s of our grand old martyr presiden
d when at the zenith OF his power an
.e fame, "All that ! am, sr hope TO be
.e / owe 10 my sainted mother Wit
" such a tribute to ones memory, VIII
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