The evening times., 1897-12-20
THE DHUDKTER
WHG'pHWDLKS
A Type of Girl'Who Makes a
Failure OF Life.
Her Mother Mukt Enforce a Method.
ical Exception of Daily
Duties.

It is the morning dawtle that puts back
a housekeeper for An entire day. know 81
many women who are eyerlastingly rush
ed. They have no time for mind cultiva-
ton, no time for physical rest. They are
spending their days on the ragged edg.
of despair aud their nights are given over
to insomnia.
Prompt action until the days duties
are Strengthened wo1Id save 80 much worry.
The mightiest resolves seem to dwindle be-
fore habit. Habit is an arch destroyer or
a blessed promoter of our dali y life. when
l think" complains busy woman, bow
much Of veal or woe was right in mother s
hands to bestcw upon me canot help feel
ing at times very fretted over my early
training. We girls were allowed to suit
our home duties 10 our own time and In
clinati0us.
As result, we used to dust in the
morning, or sweep or make beds with
spaces between for dreaming. How it
comes hack to me, my way of making a
bed. I woulG ther slat it up in Lury
OF Ieisurely accommodate myself to the
off side calls. l used, for Instance, to
keep an interesting novel lying around
and when l Thought l had worked as
long as I ought I would pick up my
novel, droI down in a chair and eagerly
devOur u Few page
.In other words, I Iottered through
with any tasks mother ever gave me 10
do l tried to sew up seam, and two
thirds OF tie time was spent gawking
out Of the window. Such training! And
haven't l tad to suffer for it? Some
times l think that there isn't woman
I know who cannot accomplish more
than I can and with less furry. l am
always hoping to catch up with ms
work, and never succeed"
One reason for mot herly negie ect In
training daughters to methodical execu-
ton of their daily duties is 6islike to
pin yourg minds down to routine in
which there is a PRACTICAL abandonment
OF the sCice Of novelty. They were per
haps In their own youth sufferers be-
cause OF a tie-down to tasks that they
grew to despise. and remembering this
suffering they are determined to be most
considerate of their girls.
We have 10 more subtle poison than
that which springs from the e,il-"pro-
era astinntion." TIE only sire cue fer it.
and the cure must te tegun early in life,
is conqueredinclinaffops to dawdie- Moth
ers shrewd enough to be able to put
some poetry into each days prose will
have less trouble than If only the hum
drum, side of each Gays duties is insisted
upon.
Let the girls believe that quick ac-
tion thrcugl, rooms well ventilated will
l,r;p,- fhp,,, hoa ,,ftftL laf then, nm
destand that a morning OF conscientious
labor will nt them for. an a afternoon OF un-
qualified pleasure; let them believe that sa
tiety rohs enc OF enjoyment for LIES
sweet mcrsels: Insist that they stop dream
ing over what might have been, and cheer
fully take hold OF what Is: let them realize
that statedduties performed at stated times
are regular pauaceasfor rnnuf.
Daughters are seliously handicapped by
injudic:ous training in early youth. Small
thanks does mother receive later in the
race when her girl. INDUCED in shiftless-
ness at a time when character :nolding was
4 comparatively ca sy task finds herselfleft
far behind in he feminine race. II you are
ever unfor: una te enough tn kno,v her you-
ears will be assalled by complaints such As
these:
MY days are all alike. l AN rept
hard at it from morn till night. l never
have time to do anything l want to Go.
visits?- / never ray visits. Read? Well,
should think the mile mum was at
hand il ! lad time for hooks. No, 1t is
my luck. Other women seem to get some
fun out OF life. 1 have about all l can
do to keep up with my work. 1t is nnfair,
that's what IL is, downright unfair
You listen, you pity and then If You
know anything Of the great good of carly
training You wonder what sort of mother
such a woman could have had.-Dorothy
Maddox, in Philadelphia Inquirer.