The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-03-12
A Practical Suee estlon.

for something to do whereby they may
support themselves. The first idea of
every girl seems to be that she will write
poetry for Il living; the second, that she
she turns to typewriting and clerking i'll
a store. Unfortunately, these avenues
70 Il livelihood are already overcrowded.
Poetry is q drug on the market, there is
a limited call for leading ladies, and the
supply of available typewriters is far III
excess of the demand, while an adver-
tisement for girl to clerk in Il store will
bring host of applicants, pathetically
anxious to work for the poor salary or
fered them.
Under such circumstances it seems the
greatest pity that girls are so unwilling
to turn their attention 10 the desplsed oc-
cupation of homework. AS matter of
fact, it offers one of the best possible
careers to any young woman who is Will
ing to give to it the same thought and
Intelligence she would to learning to be
capable typewriter to say nothing of
the drudgery she would have to undergo
to fit herself to be an actress. or even a
poet whose work anyone would buy.
Passing by the foolish pride that makes
girl think it more respectable to stand
behind a counter and sell ribbon than
be Il professional caterer and stand be-
hind a table in the pantry and serve a
ject of catering for ones own family
from a business point of view.
A penny saved is penny earned, says
the old proverb, and it is well-knoWn
fact the whole country groans lndcr a
system Of the most appalling waste by
servants. Here is the South, every mis-
tress in hiring n servant counts in rs the
inevitable expense not only the wastage,
but the basket that makes it's daily trip
md bn IL nd
tents form an important addition TO the
grocery bill. On the other hand the girl
who is looking for Il place must be tx
ceptionally competent if she can COM
mand situation as clerk or typewriter,
which will pay her $40 week. Her
mother pays the cook So or more, and
the wastage.
Now why shouldn't the girl. who feels
she must earn money, and who wants
the pretty things money buys, assume
the position of cook in her own f:,,nily :?
Let her father pay her the cooks wages.
Let her have the same amount of money
that it has required to pay the house
hold bills, and let her cater for the fam
lily, and have whatever she can save out
OF it. She will have far more money at
the end of the month than she could
have earned in store or office.
Cooking, it will be said, is not easy
work. Neither is standing behind a
counter, waiting on the whims Of un-
woman with good management can do
the homework of any ordinary family
and still have time for many leisure
hours-hours that may be spent in read
ing or social pleasures-that the girl who
goes out to work is debarred from enjoy
ing.
This is a practical suggestion. Will
some girl who wants to earn money try
it?-New Orleans Picayune.
How to Treat Your Husband,
Did you never tell your husband of
some great excellence of virtue in your
trends husband purposely to remind
MN OF some shortening or fault which
you had seen in his own habits of char
acter?
Did you ever treat your husband, when
IN company, with inattention or iinpa-
tlence, while you politely and cordially
accept the attentions of other and less
noble men?
Did you ever impatiently blame him in
the presence of third party? What
woman is more sensitive to blame in the
presence of others than a husband, when
Are you ever cross and silent in Your
own home, with no one to entertain but
your husband, yet full of life, wit and
amiability in company?
While it is just that husbands should
listen and receive this counsel. and by
the lesson it teaches endeavor to aug
meni the joys of home, should not wives
also take its truth into their own hearts :?
Are we not equally likely to trespass in
home is our kingdom, where we may
reign supreme if we have wisdom to
hold the scepter with judicious hand.
nave seen young people begin life
with every promise of the most perfect
happiness. vet make entire shipwreck of
1T all by their own unguarded words, i'm
patient looks and unrestrained tempcrs.
a talent for spicy and brilliant repair
tee may enliven party and give the
highest zcst and piquancy to social inter-
course, cndowing its possessor with Il
certain position, enviable or otherwise,
but in the home circle it is dangerous
gift, and, unfortunately, more frequently
bestowed upon the wife than upon the
husband.
How often have we recoiled, as if from
a blow, when hearing those who should
be one i'll heart, draw comparisons preiu-
dicial to their own companions ard to
the credit of another's, and we griave to
say that such remarks are quite us often
heard from the wife as from the hus-
band.
Do they ever recall that when they
gave the marriage VOW they took the
care to each others honor and 1especta-
bility into their own hands to cherish CT
God has made that bond so in
that all honor bestowed OH the
one passes over and is shared by the
other, and all disgrace or error that is
charged to the one is equally injurious to
the other.
| fully understand all that is said of
mans rough, abrupt, overbearing ways.
There is too much truth in it, I think
there is, naturally, a little spice Of tyran-
ny in every mans composition, and per-
haps from the days of Queen Bess u, to
the present time we might find enough
Of the same quality in our own sex to
establish our claims to sisterhood.
But, admitting that there are purely
masculine elements, do we not know how
to conquer or soften these uncomfortable
and undesirable characteristics?
BY gentlencss and love woman may,
if she will assert her power and find men
most willing subjects. But arrogance
and Impotence will find rough and stub
born opponents. Man is nowhere found
so true to his natural impulses as in the
sacred precincts of home. If one would
be sure of his true character, go to tho
domestic circle Unexpectedly.
1t is not when away from home or in
the pursuit Of business or pleasure that
one sees him in natural condition. In
the bosom of his family he will be found
exercising his true spirit
There you will learn the strength of
conjugal ties, and there his true charac-
ter will stand before you, Glowing in ex-
cellence or shrinking into insgnifcancc.
Two Glasses of Readers.
'About fifteen years ago readers used
to be divided roughly into two classes
those who liked Dickens and those who
'adored Thackeray,' writes the clever
critic, Droch, in the Ladies' Home Jour-
nal. Each class used to view the other
with more or less contempt. Of the two
the Thackeray people felt themselves con-
siderably superior to the Dickens people.
There were not so many Of them, for one
thing, and this in itself gave them Il
feeling of exclusiveness something like
the attitude assumed by George Mere
dith's admirers of the present day.. But
Thackeray's. complete works for $500