The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-12
Busy Wives and Vacations
(8Y MARGARET E. sANesTER.)

They ere often ll-timed and unfortu-
nate. But there are little breaks when
for a short time tired wife goes away
for refreshment and recuperation, and
they are beyond price.
For instance, a certainly happily
mated couple have been living togeth-
er, day in and day out, for the last six
or seven years If they have had an
outing it has been together The wife
has not been a day from home except
during her husbands short summer
holiday, when she has accompanied him
10 the woods and streams where he
has gone a-fishing. Privately, she
loathes camping out and roughing it,
but her inclination has led her TO go
with John and endure tent-life for his
sake. Why should not John have gone
alone and allowed her TO take that
time for a visit home to her mother
and the girls in a distant city?
The wife's people, in the early spring
days that make so many demands on
deprecated vitality. have arranged a
little run to the West Indies or to
Florida, a matter of six weeks or so,
and they want her to accompany the
party. L could all be easily arranged,
as there is a maiden sister, sufficiently
detached from cares of her own. to
come and keep house for the interval;
but the lady's conscience does not suf-
fer her to accept the proposition. Il
cannot leave John" is her conclusion.
and her state of mind is best described
by the famous line:
This rock shall fly from its base s
soon as l."
She is pale. jaded. nervous. worn
out, in the condition when any menac-
ing germ may pounce upon her with
hendiSh rage. But she viii not take a
rest. She cannot leave John. With
a world-famed heroine she explains, 90
viii never desert Mr.. Micawber." John.
who is not at all a Micawber. but. on
the contrary, a generous, indulgent and
well-to-do American husband, begs his
wife to go on. He might as we'll beg
Gibraltar to move. She is not TO be
persuaded.
Quite apart from other considera-
tons, it is a good thing for people in
the same family, now and then. to have
little change and separation. They
come back with renewed courage and
renewed strength to take up the ordi-
nary duties of life. A little Whit from
outside tones up and enlivens one VINO
has too long been enduring the con-
tinuous round of existing in the same
place, seeing the same faces and hear
ing the same voices. II is even a good
thing for children that their mothers
should, once in a while, leave them. not
to neglect, but under proper supervis-
ION, while the mothers go away and
play at childhood's games themselves.
one cannot loaf before ones children,
and loafing at times is duty.
The one thing which love should
dread is to become so commonplac e
that its sacrifices are taken for granted.
Its gifts are cheapened and its gladneSs
loses sparkle and effervescence.
Look around the homes you know.
Can you deny that the person who has
the greatest need and the least oppor-
tunity of change is very often the wife
and mother? II could much easier go
10 heaven" wrote an old schoolmate
of mine. when invited to join a pleasant
company and go on a much-needed out
ing, than leave home for a fortnight
as you suggest" She told the truth II
is often an easy thing for a tffed-out
saint to slip away into heaven. but it