The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1904-02-18

to heart the truth that something must
be crowded out. Ono woman, with
one head, one back, one SCI of nerves,
hands ard feet, cannot accomplish
everything. If she does, there is very
little left OF the woman but a lot OF
assorted fragments and the memory Of
q strenuous life. There are Tar better
things than these to put into the faml-
" collection. When modern surgery
reaches the point where it is possible
to insert new backs, and replace de-
fective nerves, a woman may accom-
plish all she wishes she could do and
ell mere man thinks she might do.
Until then she must be contented to
be as the Creator made her.
There is a choice in what may be
crowded out. I have spoken of the
advantage of diversity OF occupation.
A woman must not be all housekeeper
lest she neglect the welghtier matters
OF the law. She must not be all wife,
for fear her children should suffer, nor
should she be all mother, under penal
ty OF causing her husband to feel like
an imposed upon boarder In his own
home. Still less should she, In her de-
sire to keep step with the march Of
events outside, devote herself 60 unre-
servedly to Women Clubs, Mothers
Meetings ana Cooking Glasses that her
children bring themselves up by hand
and her husband finds his only salts
factory gastronomic greeting at the
club or the restaurant. In the ghoul-
lsh phrase of sprightly young man,
she does not wish either to keep In
front with the hearse or come trailing
along at the back with the bugaies.
1t is no small thing to be wife and
mother and the fools who yearly rush
into a relation where angels might well
, fear to tread open terrifying prospect
for the future of the race. Still, the
tools are not in the maj ority, and the
greater part}of the women who make
m lstakes do it through ignorance and
false sense of proportion. When we
start classes in girls schools for the
study of perspective that is not that
of drawing and proportion that is
not to be found In the arithmetics we
may hope better things in the future OF
the nation.
In the meantime.--"don't throw
things at the performers are do
ing their BEST" Their very best, poor
! things! It is not the fault of the
young girl that she has not been
trained for the great career OF WIFE,
hood and motherhood that, If God is
good to her, lies ahead of her. As it
is, she can only do her possible.
1t is big thing when woman has
learned to make a man happy, though
married, how to bring up children so
that they will be as much comfort 40
possible to their families and as little
nuisance as feasible to the neighbors,
to keep house 80 that no one but the
house would suspect it did not keep it.
self, to manage servant so that she
will not look upon the mistress az her
natural enemy, to be ready in hospital
ity without making it burden, to be
on good terms with the neigbbors, near
or far, without condescending to petit
ness,to be a member of a Womans' Club
without leaving the stockings undarn-
ed, to attend church without losing
her temper on Sunday morning, to
post herself upon current events with
out taking the paper from her hus-
band at the breakfast table, to read q
new book occasionally, to practise out
door exercise enough to keep herself in
good bodily trim, to dress herself taste
fully without forming colossal bills, to
bestow sufficient attention upon her
figure and face to preserve her good
looks, and having done all this, to save
herself from nervous prostration BY the
system and moderation she brings to
them all.
And yet there are women who MAIN
tain that the domestic career does not
| give full scope to their powers. In the
name of the great Goddess, Common
Sense, what more do they want?