Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-08-17
LEISURE CLASS Is NECESSARY.

This nation has need of women of
leisure, women who have time to be
very busy about things that are with
out money and without price, de-
clared college president recently
No one has amy wish to quarrel
with the quickening interests which
have come into women 5 lives, but it
| is certain that if all the women in
the future are to be too busy to al
tend to the things that are without
money and without price, if they are
to be hurried and hurried over the
things of the world, the whole of life
will have to become incomparably the
| poorer.
There are three ways in which
women are pre- eminelIt: They are
are the beadtifcr s., Of life, ;.nd thheeyV
are the preservers OF morals, said
President Hoard of Wellesley in one
of her addresses.
AS the bcautifiefs of life they are
indeed most essential. Theirs tie
privilege and duty to make ceuters
Of sweetness and light where the
things OF this world cease from trout
ling and the weary one may rest.
Flhelrs the primary and essential.
function of furnishing refreshment
and inspiration for those who are
wearied with the conflict of life.
But how are they to do this if ev-
cry moment is devoted to some mon
eygetting pursuit and they reach
home with every nerve ir state OF
tension, every muscle aching with
WEAKNESS and no desire but to creep
away into corner with their bruised
being2
Lit may be taken as an axiom that
few women engage in labor outside
the home unless forced to do SO by
stress of circumstances, and there
are few women who do not prefer the
home life, with its duties and prvil
eyes. But apart from these there is
a rapidly increasing circle Of women
who have become SO absorbed in the
various activities of society, of |
club lie, Of athletics and the 101 |
cults that claim attention from
time to time that the type of woman
who greets you in her quiet drawing
room DIS one who has long days of
repose behind her and looks serenely |
forward to others of the same tenor
is becoming so rare as to impress ore
as an exotic.
Leisure is not luxury, it is sin
pc, human need, as necessary to nor
NAL health as food and sleep and air.
1t is so gracious and civilizing pos
session that no man should be willing
to do without it, and he should com
lnand it, ii possible for his woman
folk, as one Of the most precious pos
sessions he can give them.
Too much hard physical work,
whether undertaken from necessity
or for pleasure (mitness the athletic
craze), S bad for women, it is asser-
ted by more than one critic. Thei
savage or peasant woman, who are
beautiful in youth, develop into I'M
seem5y coarseness after some years
OF unremitting toll,
Not that women violate any obi
cation of womanliness or detract |
from its dignity by making them
selves more capable, but If they are
forced to labor to the verge Of ex
haustion they cannot fail to losing
some of the gracious charm of fresh I
ness which is the fruit OF beautiful
leisure, of years. OF abiding in greenl
pastures and beside the still waters
Of life; Of doing. the things that are
without money and without price.
And beauty born of murmuring |
sound shall pass into her face, wrote
Emerson of his Lucy, and it is certain
that one must first absorb at thel
great natural reservoir and fountains |
OF the beautiful in life and character
and SO be able to transmit beauty to
all around
HOME ADJUSTMENTS.
The question OF home amusements