The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-03
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

might have gone on withou. thinking
anything Of it had the subject not been
brought to my mind by the hcurtless con-
duct Of girl towards poor, over
and wished, for hulf II minute. that it
was possible tp effect n change Of place
that the selfish daughter might realize
something IF her mothers clirtrless life.
There IL nothing like actual experience.
you know. to carry lessons home to the
heart.
The mother is one Of the sweetest and
most patient women In the world There
in Hes her only fault. She ought to
have brought up that strong. handsome
daughter Of hers to be a direct blessing
and practical help to her. \ srOwn-up
daughter ought to take almost the en-
tire responsibility from her mothers
ried so long and allow the poor, tired
woman the rest she has earned. and she
who does not do 1t is thoroughly unfit
irI to make Il good man happy.
III SOME old-fnslioned homes it il the
custom to distribute the work among the
s :ii,I;. OF the family changing it from
proficient iii every branch. The girl who
mar]kcts and cooks for The family one
week eAcliatlgts work for the next seven
laSs with Her sister; who makes the
bids lind carts for tile rUJhls. Tie next
wrck SHE hssuintS charsp IF the family
to her first duties. Tie mother merely
directs and crticiseS the efforts of her
offspring, and finds time for her daily
nap, the reading which she had to drop
when her children We're small and the
maiiy OTHER. little interests that make
life worth Lying: That is bite Of the
morris the pity.
The daughter Of the present day finds
no time to help Her Mother during tie
school-day period, because the list Of
studies is so long and hard. After she
graduates she keeps up many Of her stud
les and takes up new ones, joins clubs
and goes in for charity work and athlet-
les. There is no time to help mother
then. and the poor, parent has forgotten
woiiiah accepts everything and gives
nothing until the tired mother willingly
lays down the burden of life or some
man discovers III her. or thinks he does,
the necessary traits to make hir future
! happliiesA.
Mothers are largely to blaine for this
state of affairs, know. They should
reached the helpful age. The children
should have been taught to do everything
that saved steps for mother. They should
| have been given Il weekly allowance, as
| small as you please. and been taught to
understand that iii obligation was at
| tacheq to 1t. It mt1st be carried rather
than be accepted as free gift. | know
a little girl who washes tho dishes at
home after each meal and puts them
| away in return for weekly allowance
Of so cents. AS no domestic is hired in
| that house the work of that child eases
the burden of house keeping quite lit
tie and the, weekly ST pend keeps the child
in hair RIB aid mahy other little
trihes, eacling her at the SAME time ii
lesson i'll Independence and in personal
| expenditure. I can plainly see that
child's future. She wifi be the manstay
of the family. not financially. perhaps.
| though even that might happen, but In
matters calling for strength of body and
| mind.
! There never was and never will be any
work so noble as the care of the home.
1t is a thousand psties that the dear
word has come to often meafl a miserable
little cooped-up existence In few TIN
comfortable rooms; even the pleasure Of
the family board is denied the OCCUPANTS.
Apartment life has been the knockout
blow to the real homo, but please God,
recovery is possible, and it is not impos-
sible that the pendulum may swing far
in the other direction some day and bring
back to us the o1d-fashioned home life
with all it means.-Philadel!,li ia Times.