The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-03-08

the ladies of Siam Immediately ordered !
thimbles, and thus the custom was estab- |
lished.
When hard water is used, if a common
marble-not glass-is put in the kettle, it
will prevent the fakes of lime from form
ing on the sides When double boiler
IS improvised from two saucepans, a
couple OF nails placed in the lower one
will prevent burning, and ensure the wa
ter reaching every part.
MARRIAGE IS A SERIOUS AND
STEADY OCCUPATION.
That is why l say that the real happi-
ness OF married life depends largely upon
the personal character that is put into it.
Next IN importance l place sound, good
sense; and mean by this that underlying
sense OF proportion by which one is able
to discriminate the insignificant, the pass
ing, the unimportant, from the grave. the
permanent, the important-that capacity
Tor steady, balancing thought which
keeps one from impulsive words and rash
deeds. A woman who is blessed with
good sense does not consider at the start
that marriage is role to be skillfully and
successfully enacted. or a grand frolic of
which she is to be the admired and in
dulged center, or mere incident in life
crowded with other activities She knows
that marriage is serious and steady vo-
cation, and that the true wife is one who
enters marriage not thinking how much
she can get out of it, but how much she
can put into it. 1t is this larger concep-
ton OF marriage which makes women
dwell by their own fresides in sweet con-
tent with what is commonly called the
narrow limits Of home" knowing we'll
hot
give cover to ''the whole primal mysteries
of life-food, raiment and work to earn
them withal: love and marriage, birth and
death, right-doing and wrong-doing-all
these commonplace of humanity which
are most divine because they are most
commonplace"
The way to make home wide place to
dwell in is to bring wide personality to
dwell in it. Any home is just as wide as
the maker, and can be no wider. When
woman understands this she is able to
Keep her head steady and her heart undis
| turbed over newspaper sketches about
other women, in which each one of them
is made to do the most remarkable and
entirely unnecessary combination OF
things.
When, for instance, she reads OF some
woman who rears a large and growing
family, studies Latin with her boys and
with some scoffing materialistic Soclalis-
tic. We are all gazing longingly forward
to our goal, perfect kingdom on earth:
Let us help and encourage each other and
them on this common journey. The OBJ
stacles before us horrify. A crossroad is
just ahead. One finger points TO lar,
far away, dim, city, SO distant. that an
other step would be heavier than lead.
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| martyr in this useless albeit true
struggle? Why make myself target for
the lowest minded of men? I'll never be
able to drag my dear ones over the black
mountains of ignorant prejudice into that
glorious but distant Kingdom. Let me
grab any beggarly pittance, few silver
pieces OF blood money, for my children
and pass out of sight. So speaks the
materialist. The other cross-road is
ended. 1t only reached into your own
voting precinct Tie password, right
doing, being given, the surprised pilgrim
already finds himself in the Kingdom OF
Heaven on earth In every precinct are
enough such pilgrims to form Populist
club, gradually expanding, and pouring
into the hearts OF their neighbors, the
love of a voluntary self-sacrifcing service
in the great human brotherhood OF which
God alone is King. whose service is per-
feet freedom 1t is the strongest, most
cohesive OF all federal governments, OF
any socialistic state. Thus and thus only
can the great and bloodless revolution
come 1t can slant its rosy beams over
the hilltops on the dawn OF the morrow.
1t is the first and final solution OF how a
strong central government can exist, har
moniously with individual liberty. Had
your companion. the disciple OF Carl
Marx succeeded in reaching his King
dom,