The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-04-08

They so out and come in and the intervening hours are interesting and exciting and sometimes are anxious but they go with the wave of a wo- mans hand to cheer them on. and they come back to the kf.s and sweet vomanhood of wife or daughter or mother. A man hase more variety in his life and less interruption than falls to- the lot of q woman who is a busy housekeeper. From Monday morning until Saturday night she is continually engaged in doing a number and seem to her to amount to little in the end. She is making the home shelter and a refuge for the men who abide within Nit.
 
 A woman is often busy during the most beautiful years of her life in the tasks of maternity. ITO bear. to nurse. to rear." epitomizes the mothers profession. and the boys and girls are growing up growing ss rast that their progress is like a miracle, wearing out shoes. wearing out stockings, wearing out frocks and trousers, going to school. taking hold of life in it's ini- tiatfve. the woman who mothered them is surely suficiently busy. Dear patient women, OCT your children
 bending
 To leave goodnight kiss on rosy
 lips,
 Or list the simple prayers to God as-
 scending,
 Ere slumber veil them in it's soft
 eclipse;
 I wonder. do you dream that seraphs
 love you.
 And sometimes smooth the pathway
 for your feet: That oft their silvery pinions float N above you,
 When life is tangled and it's cross So wan and tired. the whole long day
 so busy;
 To laugh or weep. at times, you
 hardly know; So many trifles make the poor brain
 dizzy,
 So many errands call you to and fro,
 Small garments stitching, weaving
 fairy stories, And binding wounds and bearing lit-
 tie cares.
 Your hours pass; unheeded all the glories
 Of that great world beyond your nursery stairs. Many women are Intensely busy in various phases of aItruistic effort. How unselfish and heroic are the woman who have taken the VOWS of some gen tie sisterhood and consecrated them selves to works of Christian charity We never see a woman in the uniform and garb of deaconess or a nun with out understanding thar she has re. nounced the greater part of all that paakes woman's hopes and ambitions that she may devote herself to the relief of suffering and the consolatio of grief.
 There are woman who minister tc those incurably III of cancer and con. sumption to which are added the stings and bangs Of want. There are busy women not a few who give con stant donations of time and labor tC church work, to hospitals, guilds and associations of every degree. What | would the world do without them? Nothing has here been said of the vast realm appropriated to itself by that modern force, the woman's club Here women are if not precisely rushed | yet so breathlessly busy that some oi them have nervous exhaustion and re- quire periodical trips to Europe aC freshen them for another campaign | The woman's club is the sphere no so much of girlhood as of maturity and 1t has aptly been styled the post graduate school of the middle-aged. InNall this no allusion has been made to the million women who are busy 1T l this land precisely as men are in earn l ing their daily bread. They accept the hours, the condi' tions, the environments of men in ar auous and professional life but it cam