The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-12-01
Ola Lovers.


Duty spoke cold and stern In our ears,
bidding us bear all the toll and tears,
Paintings and losses, sorrow and STUART
Have YOU forgotten, heart Of my heart?
Heart of my heart. in the setting sun,
We sit ut peace. with our days work
done;
In the cool of the evening we two look
back
On the winding pathway, the Moons rough
track
And the morns green pleasance, where
roses Irvine.
Heart Of my heart-with your hand in
mine.
Heart of my heart, when the night is
Love will sing songs of life in our ear;
We shall sleep awhile meath the daisied
Till we put on the glory and rise and pass,
TO walk where eternal splendors shine,
Heart Of my hsart witt your hand IN
The Secret of Living Well Known
Only to Few.
What delightful place is the home of
the woman who is mistress of the art Of
living we'll! Maybe her income is small
| it often is, but it is in the wise way she
uses it that one learns how thoroughly
she is capable Of making the best of that
which comes to her.
The woman with a housekeeping allow
ance of 500 week many times does not
gather about her those many little small
conveniences that add so much to the
comfort and consequently the pleasure Of
home life that one finds in the home Of
the woman with an allowance not one
how to live we'll, while the other doesn't
and therein lies the reason for the differ
ence.
Nowhere so much us in the home is it
necessary for woman to know how to
make the best of things To the WONT
an who has been too Indifferent to gain
this knowledge-for it is something any
of us may acquire; fine old lace curtain
is merely that and nothing more, while
the other woman who has found out that
there is real pleasure after all in max.
ing the best Of things sees i'll 1T wonder
full possibilities.
She takes the worn end off, fits it to a
shorter window, puts it over il glass door
or cuts out square and fashions it into
4 cunning table cover. Sometimes, when
the woman with the larger allowance
finds her doing such things, she signs,
folds her hands in her lap and says: "Oh,
l do wish l had your artistic sense"
Artistic sense, my dear Woman-rlght
here | will be daring enough to tell you
that it is not so much artistic sense you
lack as it is common SENSE says Mar
garet Hannis in the st. Louis Republic.
Or maybe you are not as thrifty as you
might be.
to advantage that the woman who knows
how to live we'll shows her knowledge Of
| the art l only particularly mention that
| because every woman knows how much
| the fitting up of windows, cost, if one is
not very, very careful.
The woman who knows how to live
we'll has her house furnished in way
that great and continuous effort is not
required to keep it i'll good order. For
example, in the upper chambers there
are not all sorts of heavy draperies and
upholstered furniture, all of which will
keep a strong pair of hands busy all
the time freeing them from dust. Heav-
sort of toll when sweeping day comes.
Beauty and elegance can be obtained
nowadays with lighter furnishings. But
| good taste will dictate just how the
housekecpcr shall fit up her rooms The
burden of housekeeping will rest much
more lightly upon woman's shoulders
when she has learned the beauty of SIM
plicity in sleeping and other rooms in
constant use.
There is only one maid in the home of
| the woman who knows how to live well,
and yet she will tell you she has never
more work than she can do; that there
! are always a few hours between the
| luncheon and supper hours when she is
| free to do as she pleases. Her work
dresses are of light, stout gingham, and
| so are her aprons.
Behind the kitchen door there hangs a
| big, snowy-white muslin apron, and this
| she ties on before she answers a ring at
| the front door. Oh, dear me, no! This
| isn't maid out of a fairy story; indeed,
no orxy fO1 ho I, /
easily drift into careless ways, if it We're
not that her mistress has taught her by
example that it is nice by al odds to
always appear at ones best. IN the
kitchen of the woman who knows how to
live we'll there are a dozen little conven-
fences that cost but little, but are such
valuable things to the one who presides
over that domain. There are plenty of
pots and pans, a large teakettle and a
small one, and there is always hot water
in one or the other of them at meal
times. Nobody gets tired or cross wait
ing for little hot water to add to the
cup of tea that is bit too strong.
Il can't imagine how she has done it,
said a middle-aged man the other day,
but Martha has always kept things
going fine at home, and sometimes |
have just held my breath at seeming ex-
travagances only to doubt her word
when she told me how easily she had
IldutSeu IL AL.
Then the middle-aged man smiled af.
fectionately at the charming woman,
sitting on the porch beside him, and he
fell to talking about the time, long be.
for he became the well-to-do man he
now is, when he and "Martha'' went
far away to their little new home in the
West. about how she then took care of
nelghbors used to marvel how things
went so easily and smoothly with them
and that they had so many more home
comforts than the rest of them had
And as l listened l thought of what q
large share the little wife must have
mad after all in the building up of the
fortune that il theirs now, simply be-
cause she understood the art of living
| well.
The Loneliness Of Life.
1t is stated on good authority that mar
RED people live longer than those who
remain in single blessedness, vet to the
casua! observer it would seem that the
oachelor women and men live quite long
enough to accomplish all that is expected
or them. l have often asked myself if
extreme age was to be desired when !
nave heard pitiful stories of old persons
awaiting death under conditions which
cannot be comfortable. A few days age
|
city were urged to mitigate the loneli
ness or an old woman who would be con.
tent with parrot, provided it could and
Would talk. 1t is presumed that she had
nobody in the world to look to for com.
partnership, that she had outlived her
companions and friends, and lost the
capacity to find others to replace them,
sirable. 80 Ao' ue'
Every now and then we read advice IN
me me best ways to increase the span of
me- III ia ana invariably we find that many
or the pleasant things of this World are
barred out: Is quiet old are worth # :
Is 1T not better to enjoy everything as
we go along, in moderation, Of course ,
ana 1et ora age take care of itself? I for
one 40 not care for the time when 7 mnst
I'VE by strict rule in order to live at all
petually. per-
j., A man who has reached middle ago in
the security of foremost place in he IL,
profession and an income large enn,, nth