The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-01-19

Prince Charming, always tender and
considerate and loving, shielding her
from every care and worry. Life itself
was to be a fairy tale.
One by one the dreams fell away The
husband was a good man, but he grew
Indifferent to her before long. He ceas-
ed to notice when she put on a fresh
ribbon. He never paid her the little
compliments for which a woman's soul
hungers. He never gave her a kiss OF
a caress, and their married life sank
into a deadly monotony that had nc
romance to brighten 1t, II, joy or love
to tighten It,
Day after day she sewed and cooked
and cleaned and mended to make q
comfortable home for a man who did
not even give her the poor pay of a few
words Of appreciation At his worst he
was cross and querulous. At his best
he was silent, and would gobble his
food like a hungry amman and subside
into his paper leaving her TO spend a
duh and monotonous evening after a
dull and monotonous day.
The husband was not one OF the for
tunate few who have the gift of maxi
ing money. He worked hard, but OPP
portunity does not smile on every man,
and the wolf was never very Sar away
from their door.
Women know the worst Of poverty.
IT is the wife, who has the spending
of the insufficient family income, VINO
learns all the bitter ways or scrimping
In
must present a decent appearance for
nolicv's sake. when he goes to business
carfain things are necessities for the
children: and so the heaviest of all the
denrivations fall upon the woman VINO
STAYS at home and strives to make one
dollar do the work of five.
This is the way of the Ordinary Wo-
man. and what sacrifices she makes
what tastes she crucifies, what long
ings for pretty things and dainty things
she smothers. not even her own family
guess. They think it is an eccentricity
that makes her choose the neck of the
chicken and the hard end of the LOAF
and to stay at home from any little
outing. All, if they only knew!
For each of her children she trod
tba Gethsemane of woman, only to go
through that slavery Of motherhood
which the woman endures who is TOO
poor to hire competent nurses. FOR
wears and years she never knew what
it was to have a single nights unoroK-
on sleep. The small hours of the morn
ing found her walking the collie or
nursing the Group, or covering rest
less little sleepers, or putting water TO
thirsty little lips.
There was no rest for her, day or
night. There was always child in
her arms or clinging to her skirts. Oft
ener than not she was sick and nerve
worn and weary almost to death, but
she never failed to rally to the call Of
Mother" as a good soldier always
rallies to his battle-cry.
Nobody called her brave, and yet,
when one of the children came down
with malignant diphtheria, she braved
death a hundred times, in bending over
the little sufferer. without one thought
of danger And when the little one
was laid away under the sod, she who
had loved most was the first to gather
herself together and take up the bur
den of life for the others.
The supreme moment Of the Ordinary
Woman's life, however, came when she
educated her children above herself
and lifted them out Of her sphere. She
did this with deliberation. She knew
that in sending her bright boy and
talented girl off to college she was
opening up to them paths in which she
could not follow; she knew that the
time would come when they would look
upon her with plying tolerance or con-
tempt, or perhaps-God help her!-be
ashamed Of her.
But she did not falter in her self
sacrifice. She worked a little harder,
she denied herself a little more. to give
them the advantages that she never
had. In this she was only like millions
of other Ordinary Women who are
toiling over cooking-stoves, slaving at
pinching and econo-
MIXING to educate and cultivate their
children-digglng with their own hands
the chasm that will separate them al
most as much as death.
wherefore say the Ordinary Wom-
an is the real heroine of life.
Cosmopolitan.
! \ \ \
1T is so strange, Doctor complained
woman patient, recently, that when
have had a perfectly good nights
sleep should so often wake up with
headache"
How ma0v pillows do you have UNI
der your head2' asked the physician.
zone thin pillow" was the answer.
TRY two fairly thick ones" the doc
tor advised, adding that many conges-
tive headaches were caused by people
sleeping with their heads too low. The
blood settles in the head and the suffer-
er wakes with dull feeling or throb-
bling pain. Persons subject to catarr-
hal headache should be careful to have
their head high enough at night.
In cases of headache or facial neural
gia where mustard would be perhaps