The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1899-11-24

citizenship. loyalty,to country and insti
tutiiolls, patriotism and whatever else
makes for the good of the state. One
need not fear for the future OF the rcpub
nc when its affairs fall into the hands ol
| the men and women who were children
OF such homcs.-Boston Herald,
Discipline # Matrimony.
The first year of married life may be
compared with the first attempts of Il
baby to walk warily and swiftly. saws
IL woman of tho world. By stimbIiHp
and oyerbalancing itself does the in.
FAINT learn how he may locomote with
safety to himself and without treadine
on the toes, of his companions.
The angles Of our characters, we be-
ing usually agrcrably unconscious of
them, become unplcasantly revealed to
us because they get in the way of our
partner for life And he whom we con
slider faultless proves to have angles as
well. Each has to learn the other all
over again III the intimacy OF marriage.
Matrimony is a splendid institution for
the elimination of self-Will. BY the time
those angles above referred to have be-
come rounded and inaggressive. the ma
| t!re or their owner has undergone a
change of which he or she, may possibly
be unaware. All the same, it is in the
nature Of discipline, and discipline is not
invariably pleasant
! When true love helps in the process
it may be comparatively painless The
love acts as an anaesthetic; or, TO vary
the smile, love. is as the skilled den
fist. who min mizes the pain Of his op-
crations.
When there is marriage without love
the discipline of adjusting the two ma
lures to each other and to the necessi-
ties of double existence may be likened
to the unskilled operator, who gives his
patients the maximum of pain with the
minimum Of benefit.
| House wife and i,omestic,
The first effort a woman can make il,
the management of her household is
| toward preserving demeanor of diyni
fled amiability. If she wishes to exact
Difference, respect and good will, let he1
make fair exchange in Offering kindl,
words, a thank YOU for little services:
a good night and good morning, and in
variable gracious civility without famil
iarity, says the Philadelphia Inquirer
The second art to study is that of he
slowing tactful correction. TO announce
| that the soup was unfit to eat. and tn:
coffee abominable is discouraging and ir
ritating to a cook, especially when the
reprinand is given in an unpleasant tone
as too many misguided women honcstl,
believe is the one and only impressive
means. The truly impressive method i:
| to talk the matter over quietly after tn.
meal, point out exactly the fault in tn;
dish. repeat none of the family criticisms
and by advice and encouragement stir tn,
servants pride and confidence.
Humor Often Fatal to Happiness.
First of all, let it be realized that hui
| NOR is not Il quality or an attribute of
one sex more than the other. Humor is
| scXless.
Probably more people are born without
than with it,, but humor itself differs not
with the sex of it's possessors, though its
| own quality may differ.
HumOr is modified or accentuated by
character, and it may be asserted that
women are more frequently born with
the sense of humOr, whereas men attain
to 1t afterWard, says the Philadelphia
Times.
Many women are natural humorists:
their humor, if less cultivated, is per-
hapS more spontaneous, more buoyunt
and normally more subtle.
woman certainly possesses as great
sense Of humOr as Il man. but it is an
open question whether she is the happier
for it. With true humor she must pos
sess the critical naturc-the laugh
through the sob, but the sob that spoils
the laugh.
She wants to love Loyalty. admire blind
ly, like her ,lnhumorous sisters, but. alas.
she cannot help noticing the absurd ges-
ture. the trick, the cough, the way of
holding teacup or a knife and fork
something equally trivial which provokes
the sense of hunlOr and turns the pas
sl0nate love, if it continues to be love at
all, into something tender, pathetic, pitt
full, but not blind.
On the other hand, this sense of humOr
DrlghtenS the unromantic moments of
life. There is il smile and Jest even
IN an hour of agony if something strikes
the quick fancy.
Woman's humor can enliven her own
life and can help to spoil it. also; it can
make her feared and admired, but it can
never make her loved. Therefore,, hui
morous women look on it as il dangerous
gift, but know that, rightly managed, it
can be fascination all the same.
a man does not always appreciate FEM
mime humor but when he finds it in the
woman ne loves she possesses for him an
eXhaustless fascination
And the woman who loves well will
often find secret source of amusement
IN concealing her sense of humor or in
putting it aside for expression at some
expedent time.
l admit that women who have not
what may be called the conventional
~ "a
to men; they sometimes fail to see the
fun of some mild joke. But if only those
men could see inside the minds they are
inveighing against as absolutely wanting
IN humorIas Scotch, as dense-I think
they would sometimes be surprised at
their own position as standing jokes in
those "dcnse feminine minds"
Women"A-e Tailur at Shopping.
1T is singular thing that with the
amount of shopping done by women they
should continue to shop so badly-badly.
mean, in the sense of shopping with an
absolute lack of SYSTEM" writes Edward
Box in the Ladies' Home journal. Here
and there we meet a woman to whom
God seems to have given logical mind
which she applies to her shopping. But
as a general thing the assertion that
women shop with an utter lack of system
is unfortunately all too easy of proof
And curiously enough, it is not alone
those behind the counter who suffer. for
the women themselves make their shop