The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-07-07
A WOmau's Power,

| Man rebels against the fainteSt hint of
coercion. AS soon as his chains begin to
gall he frets and longs for freedom. The
| wife holds certain reinS in her hands.
and she may use her tongue as a curb;
but the reins should be of flowers and the
curb of loving kindness. She should
make her husband feel that he is free to
come and 60 as he pleases; that his house
is not jail, but a place where he is al
ways sure of hearty welcome, even
when he has wandered from it for a
tim She will MT ,ulk il he leaves her
sometimes in the evening, nor sit up for
him like a reproachful ghost. She will
| learn the art of forgiving and forgetting
| ESPECIALLY forgetting) petty faults and
wrongs, and will remember always that
to keep the love she has won is the most
important thing for her happiness.-Car-
RE 3. Garrett in Woman's Home Com
panion.
How Plain Girl May Become Pretty.
Mrs. Humphrey, writing in the Ladies'
Home ' %7s;n on Hoy to be Pretty
vice she could give the girl who would
attain graceful figure IL contained in
two words: Avoid exaggeration. 1--WE
all know how disappointing, if not ex-
actly annoying, it is to see pretty face
associated with an awkward figure or an
uncouth gait. Now, gracefulness is al
most always capable of being cultivated,
TO some degree at least, even in cases
which may seem to be Of the hopeless
sort. Calisthehics have converted many
an awkward girl into an unrecognizably
| graceful and charming edition Of her
| former self. Many growing girl has
| her figure and carriage ruined for life
by want OF care, and more particularly
motherless girls, who have no kind elder
to make them lie down for at least an
hour every day. The recumbent posture
| averts many an evil. The shoulders
| should be perfectly fiat upon the couch,
and the head be only slightly raised.
Urls are such active, vigorous creatures
that they often object to lying down in
TINS way, but careful mother may
easily learn how to turn this restful time
into pleasure: In almost all cases I'M
provement will result from gymnastic
and callsthenic exercises, from rowing
drilling and swimming But it is abso-
lutely necessary that the patient should
pc mindful constantly of her own bear
ing She must hold her shoulders back,
ner mead up and her chest forward. At
first this position will cause some stiff
ness, but If .persevered in and accom-
panied by calisthenic exercises, or even
games like lawn tennis, it will soon be-
come natural, easy and graceful
Are You Jealous7
After marriage Jealousy should be
strlVen against just as one battles with
fever or any other kind of disease. 1t,
creates MISUNDERSTANDING by the hun
dreds; it chills love, though it is sign
or love, and it makes the unity Of
thought it is sign Of love, and it makes
the unity. of thought and feeling that
should exist between husband and wife
hollow m0ckery.
1t is the wife's part to cure this canker.
Women are so delicately sensitive and SO
wonderfully wise and diplomatic, that
without throwing their cards on the
table. and thus revealing their hand, they
can force the game to go any way they
will. Jealous husbands are very quick.
TO- see when their wives really adore
them, and them alone, and the woman
who is the victimized wife of a Jealous
man, instead of scorning. his weakness,
does well to be lenient toward it, and ten.
der, remembering that her. conduct alone
IS ITS cure, or, on the other hand, its ag-
There are wives who argue falsely that
when their husbands cease to be Jealous
they also cease to love them with the
passionate fervor of the first few years
Of married life. Never was there n moro
absurd mistake. OF truth, only the
woman who has not known the panRs Of
Jealousy would SO argue. -. g: 4 d.
Jealousy has been known to kill Deo-
pie. 1t saps the strength and WeaRnns
the vitality OF the heart. So, though Il !