Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1905-12-27

asserts that we educate our daughters in the
direction, uniting them for the duties Of house
hold -wifehood. He advocates practical education
one that will fit girls for the responsibility goOC
housekeeping imposes. The minister says there
are A, 900 900 bachelors in the United States, &C
cOrding to the latest statistics available of ths
United States government. He deplores this con
dition Of affairs and expresses the opinion that
young hesitate to marry on account Of both the
heavy expense connected with housekeeping and
the maintenance Of young women with their extrav
agant ideas, and also account OF the Insignificant
salaries paid to young men in average business life
We quote the following extracts froR the remarks
of DIR. Peters: ss@'ss
''Even If the young woman be not required to do
the work herself she ought to be able to direct heI
servants. Bat young wife may not be able to do
all the work required to be done in the house. Not
able Not able to cook and wash and mend and clean
the house for one young man and herself, and that
young man her husband too, who is quite willing to
work from morning until night, to put up with a
cold lunch to get up and light the fire, to do any
thing that love can contriVe to spare her labor,
conduce to her convenience and promote her happi-
ness and good housekeeping Womanliness and
good housekeeping go together.
~ believe in the highest education OF women; but
let their training send them Ont into the world al
ways as interested in making rooms pleasant and
the food palatable as bonnet artistic, In working
handsome daily home life as piece OF embroidery,
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symphony Of Beethoven, in translating the temper
ament and taste of household as comedy of
AristOphaneE, and in interpreting the moods Of q
husband as those Of one Of the heroes OF the Iad.
3'We need not wonder that discomfort prevails
among men, 1t Is this extravaganza among women
that accounts for the few marriages. Today much
of the education is so managed as to nnft women
for practical life. / would make all the improve
ments OF education and the accomplishments OF man
ner subordinate to the duties OF the hOme-the
means TO make the home happy"
There is much food for thought in the ministers
Of the present domestic shortcomings
While we do not believe in the making 81 woman aI
drudge and slave, at the same time we think the
tendencies OF the times among our young married
women is towards neglect Of household duties for
The sake Of the empty and frivolous pleasures of
ciety. A woman should love her home than the
card table; her husband more than the matinee, and
Il she does not she fails in her martial duties We
have always thought the home should be the best,
The most inviting, the most comfortable and the
most Joyous place in the world to both the husband
and wife. 1t is lamentable when it is not and soon
leads to other unmenti0nable evils. The happineee
and welfare Of the human race are paramount, il a
worldly sense, to every ether consideration. II the
study Of Greek and Latin, art and classical itera-
ure really units women for the practical and makes
hem discontented with their homes and the marital
relations quite agree with the learned clergy
hey should be dispensed with. The woman who
,an moi lind pleasures In her home cannot find them
the tbeater at the trach the card table, pink
jeas or elsewhere. Socalled amusements do not
bring either conteDtment or happiness, butthe per-
ormance Of duties conscientiously and the making
ofhappiness for others brings a Joy we can not de-
scribe and contentment only to be experienced to
be known. The happiest women are those who love
heir homes and VINO are never more delighted than
when she can make the hearthhtOne attractive i0rl
lim whom she has taken as her companion. We bes
ieve Id reasonable diSersions and pleasant
lmussments, but we do not believe in dissi
nome is the very cornerstone 81 our govern
nent, and BY and through il religion is made
possible, liberty fact, honesty and virtue potent
sctualitiea, character towering bulwark and real
manhood and womanhood the brightest diadem IL
humanity crown Once destroy II all is destroyed
ind ia the wake Of this desOation will CTeepa woe
more terrible than Dante ever pictured IA bid n.
ernO, sorrow ae bitter and mercess as that which
ouT hEst parents ii the Garden 81 Eden