The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-04-21
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Making Homes Attractive-Uns'gh tls
FactorysSu burbs.
THE common opinion that factory dis
tricts are necessarily ugly and uninvitine
has usually led residents Of those dis
tricts to accept the existing conditions Us
| inevitable," writes f. l.. Shuey in the
Woman's Home Companion, citing Il no.
table instance to the contrary. Yet II
is IN interesting fact that factory and
Il factory community in one of our mid
dle-weStern cities has done more than
any other institution or section to illus.
trate what may be done by unity of ef-
fort, and by the simple use of those
vines and shrubs which may be cultivat,
ed in every locality: \ few years ago ii
was as uninviting as any similar place,
but now it has vines and flowers and
gardens i'll every corner; front and back
yards, fences and wallis, windows, door
| ways and verandaS show the pleasing
ornamentation of green foliage. How
was this accomplished? First, the own,
! ers Of the factory cleared up their own
grounds and planted vines. and shrubs
everywhere possible. This example of
neatness was followed by many house
holders in the district. Then a few pub
hc-Spirited ones united in un orsaniza-
ton, each member Of which was not
only to make his own grounds beautiful,
but was to induce ut least two others
to do the same
The rules followed i'll planting were:
l; Open lawn centers-leaving the lawn
clear for good view. .: Planting in
masses along the borders g. Planting in
curves rather than in straight lines Add
to these rules the precept that fences are
unSlghtly and should be covered with foil
age; that walls and porches should be
made picturesque by vines, and that the
rear yard should be kept in as good con-
dltlon as the front. The association ex-
tended an invitation to the people of the
whole community to join the movement,
and it grew rapidly. 1t soon became pop.
ular to plant vines and shrubs and cult
vnte flowers The employment of such
vines as the morning glory, :noon-tlower,
WlSterla, ivy, trumpet-creeper and honey
snckle. and of shrubs like spirea, deut-
zia, wiegala. barbcrry and others has
completely changed the appearance of a
ncighborhaad that was formerly dull and
uninteresting
a Talk About Rich Girls.
Many poor men would like wife with
fortune, because a fortune is undenia-
bly, handy thing to have in ones fam
lily, but the men who look to marriage as
means of support are comparatively
few, and usually their attitude towards
life Is so obvious that no fairly sensible
rich girl need be taken in by them. no
man who Is not Il fool Or i; rascal will
wish to marry woman, he she rich or
poor, with whom he does not believe he
can live happily. But there is no such
thing as Il marriage in which one part
ner is happy and the other not Either it
is good marriage for both or for Meth
er. Marriage is as :huch, or very nearly
as much. Il failure to Il man who is not
happy with IL rich wife as to one who is
not happy where both are poor. What
the rich girl wants is just what the poor
girl wants-a good man who suits her.
and who is worth marrying If she can
satisfy herself that her s,,itor is a good
man, and that he has sense enough to
provide for his own happiness. she need
not distress her mind with specuations
as to how much weight her fortune has
III promoting his attentions. The man
who wants to marry her merely because
she is rich is unworthy. and if she has a
fair degree Of discernment she will de-
tect his unworthiness. But the man
who wants to marry her. and is glad she
has fortune because it makes marriage
more feasible for both of them, is not
necessarily unworthy, but if she loves
him he may be an advantageous person
for her to marry. The practical turn of
mind which makes a man appreciate the
advantages of accumulated money does
not necessarily render him in any respect
lncapa bic of approaching a woman, or of
repaying her confidence in him with en-
tire devotion and fidelity. Her fortune.
far from being drawback to her hapDi-
ness after marriage, will still be hers,
and will still be about as useful to her
as it was before. The possession of il
will help to make her an equal partner
i'll the household, and, indeed. will tend,
especially if it is too big, to make her
the ruling partner, so that she will have
need to exercise some discretion to avoid
having too much her own way. That
may be bad for her, but it is one of the
risks rich girls must run. 1t is offset by
the risk the man runs in having his flu
ture too much dominated by his wife's
money; but if the man is the right sort
Of man aud the woman the right sort of
woman, both risks may be safely taken
In the end it is character and disposition
that count, and the money, be there much
or little, and whoever has it, becomes an
Is Marriage Hiudrancc.
1t is my belief if woman deliber-
ateiy goes in for Il career, and her gifts
and ambitions are both above the aver
age, she certainly should make up her
mind to stand alone. Women are still
too Commemorative to do TWO things we'll
Matrimony in itself is career, and if
the man happens to be interesting the
woman is almost sure to give him her
best, and put what is left into any work
she attempts. OF course, the average
woman who writes or paints is either a
dllettante or is working for bread, and
for them matrimOny, unless they draw
vicious or dependent being, is rather an
advantage than otherwise; they have
some one to help them pay the bills, or
to encourage and advise them. But
when one mounts to the plane of Art the
questions of sex and of the ego cease to
exist, and if a woman has made up her
mind to train her gifts to the highest per-
lection, and to rise to the first rank,
then she must leave personal happiness
to other people, and concentrate every
faculty upon the extreme development
of the one which carries ambition with
it.
After all, personal happiness, as dis
tlngulshed from the content which may
or may not succeed it, is a transient
thing, whereas an author who really
loves her work, and does not create I'M
der pressure. is thoroughly happy every
time she writes book. 1t is a sort of
mental passion, and, unlike succession
of love affairs, is equally fresh and keen
each time. One makes ones own world
IN creating novel, for instance, and the
nneXpected-in which never found the
traditional pleasure, for I hate to he