New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-15
FOR THE SIMPLE LIFE
Some Common Sense Suggestions for the
Careworn. Restless Woman

Some Common Sense Suggestions for the
Careworn, Restless Woman
in the course OF a sensible and thoroughly de-
lehtful article on Those We Love Best IN tle
March FTa-rcrs Bazar. Marion Foster Washhurue
bids the wife who would make n success % her
wifeh00d cultivate the virtues ~ patience md
charity. Intolerance and restIcssucss-thesa. she
Says. ara Characteristic sins OF women, and.
arrorCs. ~ the Increasing residences OF the
women % oU- eye" She asks: why are wa
, always moving about-frorn THIS house 20 that,
from town 20 country. from boarding TO house-
keeping and back agalr2 why are wa always
striving for some new thing, plungirE with
heroic zeal into The newest amusements the
newest fashions and the newest reforns7 Why
nervous prostration. lying in walt alike for tae
strong and noble and for the weak and nspirinE2
, One wonders nowadays 60 "a vigorous CHEEKY
woman doing share of her own work rearing
her children without breaking her heart
them. taking calm but sufficient interest in hor
husband affairs and in the affairs o. the out
Eide world Restless. half sick and discomfort
Cd many - Us are-rone Of us all the time hut
most OF part Of tho time"
This unrest from which the women Of the ara
suffer the author considers not unnatural when
one views tho economic unrest Of the day and
considers woTnan's part 81 g. "a creature OF
subtlety. of desire for harmony. OF aching sym
pathies-shs IS part Of the great mass Of the
| underneath. FUrginR trresistibly upward In the
dark she obeys the pun OF cosmio forces and
follows after unseen moon
what is 20 DO about it2 Sleep enough. for
one thing and that means sleeping when tho
baby sleeps, AZ least lying down OF an after
/ noon regardless Of mendinE and homework The
next alienation 10 the curse OF restessness is
out OF doors. Of course, there is the ho'Iseworlt
and the housekeeping. but Mrs. washburne thinks
that IN the end these would not suffer. Already
81 IS not necessary f0r women TO do much OF
their own sewing. and # must seem 10 an IN
tolerant observer that women who wear their
nerves out over embroidering shirtwaiHts and
that they who make al their own clothes and
The chldren's; and make them with elaboration.
Then there IS play. Married women--for whom
/ health has become double duty-ought 10 keep
up their Eolf. their riding. rowing swimming ana
one Of tho concluding paragraphs Of this article
! we are hearing a great deal nowadays about
more But We women az l1noW-dont we .-t ti
il Is one thing 20 establish an ideal and another
70 I've up % II In detail Here az ever; ICES our
not tie GOOD pastor Wagner nor any other man.
who have 20 work out our own salvation from
the lettering triaes that hold US back rom our
IN 49, -les .-s-b -g "IIr minds 10 order
49, ft, ne ehson ,F-t neither thew shall
suffer nor he great things RuJ So, 50 ' Ban Is55
their beauty 10 Hfe. To do II we need 70 take
the broad 1e However busy our hands mos ina, may
in tho large IN the fun sum Of their little re-
spaces I'm upon The confusing clutter thar dis
tracts MS II that illural.l We -l.--s 10y
rut O. IN is place end with firm hand keep
y la-ee srrnIv ~ patience,-tha. we cannot ex-
pect 20 learn how 70 i've Until Just before We
we can move on and uD n littlo az time The
comfort VIII Pc iiai We sha. move DINERS Up WIN
best and those ~ whom we are a part NE
shan see he Tsh5eoS or Ply s,, ana o Te, ana 5
iake o-L si-r .,..5,.e,, 49, - III y. 80.
f5s11a2 and children " T'-' '' ''a '7 MS
rlF can nnH -7H