Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1908-01-31
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AN IDEAL WOMAN.

once famous emOtlOnal actIeSS, 10 MI o.
Fred C. Harriott, and the fact that
each spring her husband plants a
fiower-pot with her initials, c. NJ H.
thus carrying out Tennysons fancy.
Il shall plant her name in characters
of living green" is one OF the signs
that when she speaks of happiness In
married life she speaks with the au-
thority of experience. Here are some
extracts from an interview with MISS
Morris in Woman's Magazine:
Shall / draw for you my picture
of the ideal wamon? / will do 1t In
two swift strokes. That line stands
for sympathy. The other stands TOT
the well-stored mind. II woman
has sympathy, and If she is well read
there is little else needed"
Were l to advise some girl OF 20
at the beginning of her career
whether that career led her along the
loye-illuminei levels of wifehood and
motherhood, or to the heights OF ar
tistic endeavor. should say to her:
The most important thing in a wo-
mans life is to keep her self-respect.
1--WE hear a great deal about having
a purpose in life. That is right IL
the purpose be right. But sometimes
an unbending purpose in life is only
another name for selfishness.
The intimacy of married life makes
good manners all the more desirable
indispensable, in fact-and 1t is the
wife who must see that they continue
to exist. She should not say: When
YOU were calling on me before our
marriage you did not keep your nat
on while talking to me- II she did,
she would wound him. But If her
own manners are exquisitely consld-
crate he will try to equal them. She
sets the standard and he tries TO
live up to it."
every woman wants to be happy;
but don't think the happiest persons
ever think much about whether they
are happy or not. 1t would never
have occurred to me at any time OF
my life to set out to seek our happi-
ness. II comes to those who do not
seek It, A great life-lesson has been
learned when we know at last that
happiness Is in the doing"
GENTLEWOMEN NOT WANTED.
An interesting contribution OF the
question of domestic service was re-
Gently made by a woman who mas
tried hard to secure position In
a household for another woman OF
refinement-a friend-who was In
such straitened circumstances that 1t
was imperative that she secure work
at once. Having for years read ar
ticles in which the mistress class was
represented as being eager to get a
better type of efficient domestic than
presents itself in intelligence ofices,
she naturally supposed that she should
have no difficulty in securing desir-
able place for her friend who is In
robust health and still a young wo-
man. besides having had the expert
ence of successfully managing home
and several servants of her own. Al
though the applicant for a place was
willing to eat in the kitchen and to
wait upon the door, the women to
whom the application was made had
been distracted over the domestic
problem of no help, and were Offering
s25 with no sweeping or washing,
were not disposed to accept the SER
vice of the gentlewoman and in the
few instances where they signified
willingness to do so offered her $40
a month, in a home where $22 had
been paid for the services Of a negro
girl, and IS a month where SIS was
the invariable wage rate. Small won
der that the friend who had interced-
ed in her behalf should conclude that
all the camor in regard to housewives
desiring a better class of servants is
mere pretense, and that there Is no
encouragement for higher class wo-
mel taking up domestic service
VIZ que.