Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1902-08-13

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NJNI I43aEE the first duties Of home life lies the
EJfZ1f3IfElkS9 cause OF much OF the marital diff
LkNcsSSHCSl cuties with which that city is
K SefISS burdened. This is important and
LarJIS4ahde} really it is quite true.
N494 " Freely translated their set declara-
tiOn that the girls who have been called up
on to take their places as wives have not had suf
eient training in dish washing sewing, cooking and
the many other thi0gs which belong TO household
affairs that girls should understand and in which
they should have training and discipline. On the
other hand they have been taught how to dance,
wig wag with strange young men and have learned
to perfection all the arts and tricks of the prOies
sional firt. And right there is the source OF the
whole trouble. Their parents have surrounded
them with these conditions rearing them In the
luxuries of wealthy homes where there has been no
forethOughtas to the solid, sensible things OF
human existence. They may have gone on to
boarding schools for while but the lack Of strict
training when they we're younger by their parents
has left them so deficient in consciousness to the
respect which teachers and elders should command
over them that their school falls far short OF
what it was intended.
In their homes the girls display not the slightest
desire to make life peasanter for other members of
the family. The chief end of their existence is to
shirk anything at least bordering upon work. If
they happen to have a cerkship in some store
they go to work with a deal of disincinatiOn for
QQJy, Anu Ln6n IN Whatever capacities luby uuu
exercise for their silly little capabilities it is to
spend every possible bit Of time avoiding the orders
of their superiors and to devote to having a good
time.
Their hours of duty are short, and after quitting
time they go home, tOg up in an old wrapper, trlz
their hair, look sick and Wild and the rest Of the
folks know them no more until supper time when
they come out Of a dark room to eat few pickles
Then they don themselves in their huTrah clothes,
powder and fix for his coming and the earth sees no
more of them until the next morning. All the
evening they spend in the buggy beside some little
lad who pulls out light check each month and
spends it all for livery bills; or what Is worse the
youth hasn't any salary except that which his rich
aud foolish parents give to him. He distributes his
money around on the girls though it were making
him cOnsumptlve to carry it in his pockets. So 1t
goes. There is a short but furious cOurtship, the
young people are married on the impulse OF the
moment and what do they know about the burdens
which they are shoulderiDg upon themselves
1t is for them poor things, to learn in the bitter
school of hard experience that there is something
lacking which cannot be brought forward to substi-
tute for happiness They have found it out all too
late; and very often never learn it until after there
lis court house scene, divorce case and then 1t all
comes out how that the vile knowing nothing about
her home duties gave her time and thought upor
other matters aside from those which should CON
cern q good woman. She did nothing to make the
place that should have been the home Of her hus
band inviting but lived Tor something else. ne
finding the delusiOn Of married life, resolved tt
give it up and once more take the struggle for ex
istence alone. The decision was not reached with
out many heart-ache on his part-and all becaus
of giddy wife who had not been properly trained
! BY her parents s
J These matters have their counterpart in man,
sections Of the country and it is because OF al
this false affection which young people cultivate
J the expense Of more sensible attainments-th
learning of things which shall be OF no use that
! the root of the whole evil. Talk abOnt the run
power all you please, but there is another side Q
this unhappiness OF which people hear very little
and that side has been touched upon. Kindly di
rectiOns in the household duties which should ia
to the lot of every woman at time in her life
an occasional lecture and once in a while a sOun
+ spanking would mean an effective remedy for muc
2 Of this trouble.
e A pertinent answer to the misgiving Of "The Ii
tie Americans is the trade movement with trans
= Pacific countries. To Asia our exports have grow
since 1897 from S39, 900, ,OOO year to S66 600 OOl
and to Oceanica from e22, ,OOO, 900 to $50 600 O0l
It is no use to say that we should have got this
crease anyhow without the Philippines. Trad
with Asia belongs to the countries that have gor
4 there for foothOlds at Hong Kong Port Arthur
! TOnquin. Our sales to Asia rose and fell witheJ
: noteworthy and permanent gain until we were estal
j lished at Manila. OF the S5O0O 600 we sold to Il
= Philippines last year, practically nothing wOul
have gone except for our assessOn there. The ant
e viii reply, What is e5 0O0 600 to the 20, 600 900
paid for the islands and the millions we have spel
in their deiensei It was many years before Y
D. could have justified on those lines the purchase
It Alaska, which has yielded Us $50, 100000 in go