Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-08-29

household metaphorically went tC
pieces, while she did her whole duty
by the exposition, and left things a,
home to her husband. "Poor.. dear
fellowl he tried so hard to fill my place
but he just couldn Z; he didn' 4 know
now. Still, everything has its eompen.
sations, and now he thinks my domestic
ability is something wonderful"
1t is indubitably the part of a good
wife to interest herself heartily in all
that concerns her husband, to give him
her full land intelligent sympathy al.
ways, and in everything, to believe in
him, or, If that is beyond her, to make
believe to believe and 30 encourage
him to effort. Moreover, it is her
bounden duty to do all she can to fur.
thor his best interests; what that
'all" is must depend upon circumstan-
ces, and 80 be left to individual iude-
ment. Community Of interest by no
means necessarily implies community
of occupation; comparatively few
wives can share their husbands daily
grind, otherwise than by sending him
forth thereto with the serene conscious
ness that all will be well during his
absence; that her end of the burden
will be well and bravely borne. "The
heart of her husband doth safely trust
in her,
When a wife is childless, she may,
perhaps, be able TO serve her husband
as his private secretary, his business
assistant Among the "massesH there
are many wives who do so well and
wisely, but in this case society, as un-
derstood by the Glasses" is left out
of the question altogether. There are
times, frequently, when a mans fnan-
cial status may be seriously affected
by the social standing OF his wife. The
duties Of a mother also must neeessar-
lily interfere with the literal comrade-
ship which makes the wife an active |
in her husbands work. |
The radical and physical difference be- |
tween their respective physical and do
mestic liabilities renders sneh assOcia- |
ton impossible.
Marriage ought to be a partnership |
In the truest and best sense of the |
ierm, but that sense is Of the kind |
where the life Is more than meat, the |
body moro than raiment. The inher- |
mt fitness Of things forbids that such |
should be justly one in a
sense, that is TO say, that |
he wife should be obliged TO go out
ntO the world, to labor Mt her hus-
,and 8 side, thus making contribution
II money to the domestic fund in addi.
ion TO her labors and her risks, her
.ares, as q mother. The woman who
looketh well to the ways Of her
household" has, as the saying goes,
Ter full work cut out for her. She
must be able TO realize responsibility,
md bear IL fitlyj not one who regards
I the chief object Of her existence
o enjoy herself. She should be able
o hold her own and take her place in
oeiety without yielding herself a will
ing slave to its eaprieious dictates.
There is a medium in all things, or, at
east, there ought to be. A woman
nay be thoroughly practical and do
nestieateA yet never be in danger
I degenerating into a domestic drudge
ghOse whole soul is absorbed in her
ust pan and sauce pans Mrs. Petit
old the "New York 400" that no
roman who does not know how TO cook
as any more right 10 marry than the
nan who is incapable of earning a
wing is entitled to take unto himself
wife. The elder Worth used to say
hat no woman who could not make
Tell fitting gown for herself was At to
o bride, but surely no woman who
an be nothing but luxury, not 10 say
burden, lias any right 10 take the
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