Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-03-01

MAN was not porn to be alone is
surely truism. and of the heart of
woman. so doubly dependent on ten
derness and cOmpanionship. it is vet
| more verify. but there is n correIative
! truth regarding healthful minds and
| hearts which is too sadly overlooked.
| Perhaps not one of every hundred
active matrons. happy mothers and
wives realize that the daily friction
which comes. not through irritating
causes. but simply from the wear and
tear of hourly usage. is reducing their
| nerve force to the most attenuated
! dimensions.
Never TO be STILL never to stop talk
ing, never to be at leisure within ones
self, shortens life, weakcns mental
| tnrce, robs judgment of calm clearncss
! ana unfortunately only too often
charges joyous. hopeful nature into
| an irritable and irritating condition.
| Wo1ndinS where it most eagerly de-
| 'i"cS to make whole. and casting Il
shadow where it once gave light
Who shall measure tie vital force
lost in the inccSsant talking of the
| days work? Nothing exciting, moth
ing very worrying. only the daily
! catalogue Of questions and answers
nd the discussion OF the little nothings
! ana the larger something's. What for
dinner. what TO do with a leak in the
laundry; what Phyllis shall wear to
dancing school; what will take off the
stain on the stair-carpct: what the
! hoGSemald shall do for an aching
tooth for the smallest matters. What
can best soothe the friend who comes
= SORROW what advice a M, n
trouble: what can be devised to aid
the poverty around the corner. for the
greater ones. Then at intervals. the
half hours concentrated. vltalized en-
treaty of persuasion with hayward
ness or the Notwithstanding dis
cuSsion of eVer-recurring problems
Who of US can plead ignorance of
bewilderment of brain which makes
thought difficult and Intellectual. ana
o. a lasstudc which seems Ia US an
#c, ooun.able, when days fun of these
wholly commonplace drains have come
and gone in which We are unable to
discover any cause for the fatigue Of
which We are invariably ashamed
II is very ineiegant, and to the
uncnliGntened a very mysterious i'll
luStra tion Of the mental condition Of
The feminine mind after many rerur-
ring days of this sort. but the gentle
/ not unfricndly squeeze OF clothes
vringer. which with it's soft but all
powerful roller send out the most be-
ruined garments Hat. shapeiess. limp.
and characterless is Very like the
cause ana effect Of this trivial round.
, from which the housewife and mother
allows herself no resrful time Of
isolation ANA rccuperation.
II would not seem a gigantic effort
to steadily take FOR ones self an hour
or two from the tWenty-four In which
70 pc free from Interruptions Of every
sort. alone with life's problems. ana
still-bIessed Word,-uithout one
vibrating call Yet only those who have
sought to procure this know the true
! dimensions Of the struggle. Said
very impressive woman. one Of those
/ who awaken both admiration and
manufactures in the majority of her
sen: You must learn to say mo-
positively. and adhere to it. You must
admit of no exceptions. nor let affec-
ton or sympathy have any voice in the
| matter; YOU are denied as truly and
completely to your most intimate
friend as to your enemy. and the chill
/
AS a young matron / used to look
| with enviouS awe at her. a notable
housekeepcr. hospitabe hostess
visible at all attractive entertain
ments. president of this and directress
of that. yet always calm and unex-
cited In later years learned that
| the power | coveted was gained by the
dominance of self over all other con-
Gi1pr1 finnS n conditions
more tolerant of my own shortcom-
! ingS.
! But the victory il worth strong
| fight and should be accomplished bv
every unselfish effort that is possible.
! for the result is so distinctly beneficial
/ to all beneath the sway of the mis-
/ tress and mother. and conduces so
/ largely to that unspeakably precious
| state called peace.
| JOY is Il welcome guest under any
roof. and her song is sweet. but for an
/ influence which enlarges happiness.
strengthens mental vitality and en-
, dears family one to another there is
! nothing under Gods dear heaven, it's
! true birthplace, to be even compared
with the entrance and abiding of
! peace.
! The silent hour straightens out the
petty difficulties which in their cum
ulative force become a tangle beyond
unloosenng. When no one is saying.
! Why don't you do this? Why don't
YOU try that" and offering incessant
suggestions without any real knoWl-
edge of the whole condition involved.
the one possible solution comes out in
clear. sure lines and doubt is ended.
The problem of reading the hidden
| springs of a childS nature can only be
brought out when its brothers and
| sisters are not absorbing half your
powers and one manifestation laps
over another.
! Justice. that sovereign ruler without
whom neither nursery or kitchen. much
less that sacred inner chamber wherein
wives and husbands must separate
differences of opinion and judgment
from the temporary irritation they
arouse and where the fralty of human
nature must be eliminated from the
| glory of its love and generous faithful
ness makes her stern but noble face
| plain in the stiffness of the restful
loneliness She is never found with
her delicate scales poised in her stead
fast hand where heated argument. and
the fret of tired minds. and the be