El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-05-16
For the Better Half
m NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Written for the HERALD.

decided that while we ourselves were
| not at all inclined that way probabi y
our neigh bors few doors off were and
| we have argued that when we, as ma
! tion, were a little older we would be
| as proud and refined and quiet and al
| together proper a people as our for
| eign cousins. The English particular
| " have snubbed US numerically on
this score. So it is not without a little
inward feeling of triumph that we
read of the Earl of Roseberry having
| had his daughters wedding process
sion photographed for q
cinematograph. The Lady Margaret
! Primrose, the bride: the noble Earl of
| Crewe, the bridegroom, and all the
lovely ladies and gallant gentlemen
who participated paced slowly and
| solemdly past the cameras before enter
! ing the Abbey and on leaving it. The
nearest we have ever come to making
such show of ourselves was when
Bryan had himself biographed while
he was assuming his colonelcy and
the nation regarded that as remar-
kable joke and hoOted.
A woman who knows says that the
most trying years are those "between
times first when girl is in her
teens, too big for dolls, too young for
beaus; this period usually ends at
about nineteen when the girl is recog-
nized as a young lady and has recog-
nized part in the social life of her set.
Again between 30 and 30 or 33 when
she is neither girl nor has she much
of the dignity of matron. After tb1r-
ty two or three she begins to have the
dignities and privileges of woman in
full blossom of her powers. At forty
eight or fifty, like as not, is an
other indefinite time when she is pel-
Their young nor old. She is still I'M
crowned with the silvery hairs and
not yet honored with the veneration OF
the younger folks, but she begins t.
find her work little heavy. her en-
joyment of old pleasures tagging and
she is glad enough to turn the corner
into good old age and it's pleasures and
comforts. According to this woman
though. she finds her youth cropping
OUT in enthusiasts and joys In every
stage of life aud in none does she wish
for the joys of the younger years. Life
is always complete for her who lives
the best of each day not mourning over
the days that are gone nor dreading
those to come.
Training schools for nurses who care
for babies and little children are being
and are one of the most practical evil
dences of the good of modern notions.
To make this service to the little ones
matter of careful training and of in
telligent thought is to aid the poor old
world generally as we'll as each parti-
oular baby that is lucky enough to
have a trained nurse. The school, be-
sides training young women to have
some knowledge and skill in bathing,
feeding, and clothing children,
instills the Kindergarten ideas
for amusing and teaching
them, and also establishes
uniform of nurses and fixes certain
salary and certain hours for their wors.
This gives the work dignity that
makes it inviting to gentle women.
Man 3 labor is almost always consider
ed worth definite reward for definite
hours and it may be the beginning of
the solution of the whole domestic SER
vice problem and invest woman's labor
w1tha similar respect. One great fault
with domestic service besides the igno-
rance and lack of skill in three fourths
of the women who offer themselves for
it is the fact that domestic service has
no def ute hours for work or definite
rate for ayment. This lack keeps the
more intelligent women out OF it. No
where has ignorance and clunsiness had
more chance to work mischief than
with children and these training schools
have a definite good work before them.