The courier., 1901-11-16
TIL E COU r | E r

for congratulation not to have children
to preserve and perpetuate the home
and exemplify what miracles may be
wrought by high ideals and the de-
yelopment of character-such persons
do not know the happiness or meaning
of a true home and do not deserve to
be happy. Osbourne says: Il pity from
nv heart a man who has a purpOsely
helpless wife. She is shackles on his
feet, a palsy to his hands, a burden
on his shoulders, a thorn in his side,
a dagger to his heart
We hold before our boys the goal of
staIesinanship, of business acumen,
and urge preparations to meet competi-
ton in the scramble for honOrs and
fortunes, and use every incentive to
urge preparation to meet the functions
of manhood. Why should not girls be
taught that different, but no less hon.
orable duties await them in the making
of true homes, and that preparation
and training Are honorable and neces-
sary.
Home-livers are not home makers;
neither are those homemakers who
publish their mistakes and faults in
divorce courts, not those too selfish to
make an effort to know what is the
true purpose in life, not those who
care only for what they can get out
of this life so long as they are not COM
PEELED 10 put anything into it, not those
whose desires are satisfied with the
ability to buy all they want, not those
who debase and minify the duties of
home, who put no workmanlike in
Stinct and pride in what they do, and
who actually degrade a noble profess
sion to make it what they call it
drudgery. There can be no drudgery
without a mental to perform the
drudgery; and if a woman has no more
pride than to class herself as a menial,
she would not make very good queen
even though she were given a throne.
Admitting that cooking and cleaning
are the main duties of the home
maker, she who is truly a queen no
occupation can make less a queen.
while she who lacks a true queenly
character no amount of pretending or
making-b believe can endow with one
drop of queenly blood. One thing most
needed is a higher ideal of home MAX
ing. One writer has said. give us
mothers and homemakers of fine. heroic
ideas, and the homes and the children
in them will be all right: but it is folly
to expect a heaven filled with saints
when selfish woman occupies the
thrcne. When mothers first feel a
sense of responsibility for their own
character, their own strength of will,
their capacity for unselfishness, an am
bition and courage to meet duty in a
masterful way, a determination that
whatever rights are denied them,
they will above all do their part to
Great perfect society-if to such vir-
tues are added the power of education
and educated society--then may women
hope to bring to it's highest uses the
divlnest institution of humanity-the
home
1t is easy to discern a splendid pro-
gress in machinery and Inventions
but it is not so easy to demonstrate
that the homes are equally turning out
better and more valuable products
However, the very fact that woman
herself is looking into these problems
of the home, is taking careful Observa-
tions of social and family life. is
searching for the reservoirs of health
and happiness and usefulness, is evil
dence of progress and development.
Has college life made better mothers
and housekeepers? 1t certainly has in
creased their sense of responsibility
about assuming the duties of home:
they ara OF he