Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-02-03


ton on one side of the stage and then
goes to the other side.in fresh capacity
Unlike the original Pooh Bah, she does
not draw salary for each pursuit. In
stead of this, she usually has thu privi-
lodge of finding virtue its own and only
reward.
The woman who does not keep up with
the times, drifts easily into monotony.
This is blunder.
Never should you let yourself get into
a rut, my friend the housekeeper. 1t
does not pay. Perhaps it may seem to
Tighten labor. to have the wheels run
in a groove, but in the long run.-and
often in the short run, tos,-it will be
found to be mistake. If it is your
sense OF duty that puts you and keeps
you there, go to work to try to remodel
your perception Of what constitutes
duty. II you have New England con-
science of-the virulent type, take chic
reform and have it extracted. Some
times the roots 60 too deep for this, and
then the only thing that will help is
constant treatment.
!; The woman who means to hold her
own should consider seriously what her
own is. First and foremost, she will
probably ellyOu, are those who belong
to her household. They must be cared
for, fed and clothed. Granted. But me
likewise women and children-do not
live by bread alone. and the life is more
than raiment. We all of us know homes
where the bodies of the inmates are fed
and the souls and spirits go starved. :
Once upon time l knew a home
where everyone was happy. 1t was a
badly kept house,-from one point of
view. The mother was no housekeeper
and she knew it. There were holes in
the linen, Sits in the carpets. The SER
vice of the table could only be described
as higgledy-piggledy. Yet have never
known a more united family. There
may have been cracks in the china, but
there was none in the domestic unity.
The children were loving and obedient,
the father and mother were companion
able and charming.
OF course, it was not because the
house was in rags and splinters. 1t
might have been patched and the family
peace still unbroken. But anyone who
had to choose between living in such a
home and in domain presided over by
the kind OF gorgon known as nasty
particular" housekeeper would not have
hesitated for moment. He would have
preferred goodness to cleanliness and
taken it at the first offer.
Either of these illustrations is an ex-
treme and this is what the woman who
holds her own strives to avoid. The
middle course that has been described as
golden is the end of her efforts.
In order to WIN this she should lay
to heart the truth that something must
be crowded out. One woman, with one
head, one back, one set of nerves, hands
and feet, cannot accomplish nothing. If
she does, there is very little left of the
woman but lot of assorted fragment
and the memory Of strenuous life,
There are far better things than these
to put into the family collection. When
modern surgery reaches the point where
it is possible to insert new backs, and
replace defective nerves, woman may
accomplish all she wishes she could do
and all mere man thinks she might do.
Until then she must be contented to be
as the Creator made her.
There is choice in what may be
crowded out. have spoken of the
advantage of diversity of occupation.
A woman mast not be all housekeeper
lest she neglect the weightier matters
of the law. She must not be all wife,
for fear her children should suffer. nor
should she be all mother, under penalty
Of causing her husband to feel like an
imposed upon boarder in his own home.
Still less should she, in her desire to