The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-02-11
The Woman Who Holds
Her Own.
by Christine Terhune Herrick.)

A man may if he is III luck, have
a certain unity about his occupa-
tons. A woman who tries to keep
up with the times is Pooh Bah in
pettiCoats. She is a number of
things i'll succession and never any
one thing long. She fills position
on one side of the stage and then
goes to the other side in a fresh
capacity. Unlike the original Pooh
Bah, she does not draw a salary for
each pursuit. Instead Of this, she
usually has the privilege Of finding
virtue its own and only reward.
The woman who does not keep
up with the times, drifts easily into
monotony. This is bl,nder.
Never should you let yourself get
into rut, my friend the house
keeper. 1t does not pay. Perhaps
it may seem to Tighten labour to
have the wheels run in a groove
but i'll the long run and often i'll
the short run, too, it will be found
to be mistake. If it is your sense
OF duty that puts you and keeps
you there. go to workEto try to re-
model your PERCEPTION of what con-
stitutes duty If you have a New
England conscience of the virulent
type, take chloroform and have it
extracted. Sometimes the roots go
too deep for this, and then the only
thing that wi. sahelp is constant
treatment. The woman who means
to hold her own should consider
seriously what her own is. First
and foremost, she will probably
tell YOU, are those who belong to
her household. They must be cared
for, fed and clothed. Granted
But men-like wise 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
end of her efforts. In order to win
this she should lay to heart that
4 something must be crowded out.
! One woman, with one head, one
Y hack, one set of nerves, hands and
/. feet, ca not accomplish everything.
s,.c does, there is very little
I left of the woman but a lot of as
sorted fragments and the lmemory
of a strenuous life. There are fa1
better things than these to put into
the family collection. When mod
ern surgery reaches the point where
| it is possible to insert new backs
| 1t might have been patched and tho
family peace still unbroken. Blu
: anyone who had to choose betweel
living in such home and in do
main presided over by the kind c
a gorgon known as ''nasty partic
ular' housekeeper would not hav
hesitated for moment. He woul
have preferred Godliness to cleal
illness and TAX. q. - - offe
Either of tn temperance ; is a
extreme and =, j.. " Il won
an who holds iicr o., 81 YES
avoid. The middle course that h;
been described as golden is t
starved.
. Once upon time l knew hon
|, where everyone was happy. Itw
badly kept house, from o.
point of view. The mother was
, housekeeper and she knew
There were holes III the linen, 81
, in the window shades, frayed spC
, in the carpets. The service of t
, table could only be described
? higgledy-piggledy. Yet ! ha
p never known more united tamil
p There may have been cracks in t
? china, but there was none i'll
, domestic unity. The childr
? were loving and obedient, the fat
p er and mother were companional
p and charming.
OF course it was not because
{. . house was in rags and splinte
- Il E and replace defective nerves, a =
3 man may accomplish all She wisl
b she could do and all a mere II
b thinks she might do Until Il