Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-09-09

- being n woman" She described
the old lady past middle age 'sOlemny teeterng
around on one fOot'' in9the effort to keep thin She
wrote humOTOusly of wOmans hunt for husband,
and OF her difficulty in keeping the husband after
catching him. She wrote also of the servant prob
lem, which makes wOmans life interesting
Dorothy Dx's article was humorous throughout,
and it made a very good funny answer to the
Frenchmen who has said that women a sex ''are
the predestined and inevitable victims of ennui,"
Miss Dix's article is charming, but we wish that
sac had answered tho Frenchman seriously. There
is an excellent serious answer for that Frenchman,
aud we shall endeavOr to give it, since Dorothy Dix
chose to treat the subject humorOusly.
/ A woman's lite is not less interesting than
man's-oF at least it need not be less interesting.
The life of a woman who lives as she ought to do
is the most interesting life possible. The woman
who is bored is the victim of her own shortcomings
or hard circumstances. Very often she fails to ap
pTeciate her one great opportunity.
/ In all the various directions in which fnd
fun and excitement woman can share to some eX-
tent. She succeeds IN business, she paints pretty
gOyd pictures, she ride horses play tennis and
exercise great influence in politics by paing strings
behind the scenes.
/ But woman's best Sun and her greatest excitment
belong to her alone. Man can never know them
After months of patient waiting, with q wonderful
seeretTery close to Der heart, woman begins her
real life, the life of a mOther
4 In her arms is placed horn, living creature,
enc that she has created, and on that depends
absolutely upon her.
Napoleon enjoyed himself when he kept the king
watingin his anterOom. The politician enjoys theap
Ipiause that follows his empty werds. Many men in
iuanywGysfnd pleasant sensations in lie. Bnt BOman
hes ever known the intense pleasure, the excite
ment, the deep emOtion Of the RlOther who receives
her first child-or her tenth child 10 her arms.
i There is the strange little head with thin hairs
Igrowing here and there, and wonderful bumps In
which the mother detects future genus There is
i the small, wrinkled eaEcature Of face, all out Of
drawing but sublimey ito the mother There are
the small pink fingers, opening and shutting the
north withits toothlesa gums hunting around for
j LIES very frst breakfast
Il There is more excitement in all of this for the re-
ally good woman than IN all the struggling and pet
ty efforts Of men who try to find comfort in their
+ own importance and vanity.
n Maus happiness is based on ambition. Woman'f
happiness also is based ambition. tits a higher
ambition than the maR's, because it is HRselfish
i The man who has produced a book speech a
pietRre, a statue, trust OF patent machines in
spects bis work with interest. The degree of his
happiness depends upon the extent to which he ap
proves bis work.
See hOw happy the mother is in her WOrk which
combines all Of the qualities of all the works that
different men dol. Her baby is at the sane time a
4 picture and a statue. 1t is book and speech
it's few sentences now are unuteraby eloquent, and
is great book, entire human life, bound mp in it,
Il Day by day new beauties are revealed, aud the
mother with gratitude and Joy EecOgnizes heg own
wOr and lnfuence-in the cnild's happy nature, its
love Of flowers, its kindness to animals-in al the
qualities that she has given to it.
Truly happy Is the mother rewarded by q s0n 8
success. When a man makes his great speech and
the world admires him his happiness is not great
IS the unselfsh happiness OF the mother who looks
at her son.
4 When a man becomes Pope or Emperor his Joy
is less than that OF Of the old woman who,
young woman, fed him and cared for him al
the very hour Of bis birth, and who now sees him
realize all of her hopes.
Not every W0man's son becomes great, true
+ But not every man becomes great who tries. And
every mother at least enjoys the intense pleasure Of
unsel6sh care through the baby's first years. And
she has one intense happiness in her abuolnte ap.
T prOva Of her own work. man is happy when be
thinks be has done a perfect thing. Every mother
is happy, fer every mother perfection in heI
baby.
One Of the greatest Of painters wept with emotion
as he looked upon theMadcnna that hehad put upor
canvas. Newton, working at the Figures which were