The midland journal., 1908-06-26
ONN WOMAN.S 5 DAY.


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Get UP ct a. M, start the kit
chen fire, fill the teakettle, put half
dozen potatoes in the over to bake,
prepare the table, call the children,
wash their faces, comb their hair,
help dress them, pick up their ndght-
clothes that are scattered all over
the floor, then go down stairs STR une
oatmeal, get the bacon and eggs
ready and call the family TO break
fast.
After the meal is over clear the
table, brush the crumbs off, feed the
cat, wash the dishes, prepare the chill
dren for school, put on the wash
boiler, fill 1t full of water, rinse out
the tubs and fill them with water,
collect the soiled linen, wash for two
hours, wiring out the clothes, hang
them ON the line to dry and then
prepare fcr the MONDAY meal.
Peel dozen potatoes, a dozen
onions, bunch of beets and turnips,
cut up a fve-pound cabbage and
horse and set the whole thing boil
ing Prepare the table again, polish
the silverware, entertain four or five
callers, listen to the hot abr of a gay
book agent, brighten up the nickel
trimmings on the stove and by that
time dinner will be ready. II
After dinner clear the table. wash
dishes, sweep the dining room and
kitchen, sew button on Jimmy's
waist, attend to the hole in his trous-
ers, change Lizzie's dress, wash their
faces and they are ready for school
again.
After this short breathing spell dust
the Sitting room, sweep the parlor
and darn dozen pairs of socks, cut
out new pair of trousers for jim
my, fix the lace on Lizzie's new dress,
cut the fringe from papa's pants and
entertain one or two more neighbors.
It is NOW 4 o'clock, and as the sun
has been shining brightly all day,
why, the clothes must be dry, So go
take them in, sprinkle and fold them
and then for the last meal of the
day, but you have forgotten the cham
Der work, so go up stairs, make the
beds and tidy up.
After this begin to prepare the
evening meal. Get the fire burning
briskly, mix up the flour for the
biscuits, place same in oven, chop UP
the meat and vegetables left from
dinner, put in the spider and fry.
Again prepare table, call the chill
dren from their play, wash their
faces and hands and then sit down
and enjoy a well-cooked meal.
I After supper clear the table, wash
dishes, make up batch OF bread.
put children to bed, iron the clothes
till 1915, when you can read the
morning Post and converse few
minutes with the members of your
FAMILY who have not retired.
Before you leave for your bed
empty the pam under the ice chest,
put the cat down cellar, see that tho
windows and doors are locked and
you will have finished a DAYS work
that any woman would feel proud OF,
and think you will go back to the
iron foundry with a long face and a
heart full of pity for the little woman
whom you Thought had cinch.-Wil-
ME DooMttle, in the Boston Post.
Now VIEW BY SUFFRAGETTE.
1t seems the strongest possible
argument against the woman agitator
for the ballot box, Is to be found in
the dominion which the women of
Belgium have gained over their al
legged Lords and masters" and all
that without a word of the seryid
speech making at present going on in
England and America. An English
sufrragette went on visit to Belgium
a few weeks ago and returned con-
Verted to the idea that the woman
does not live who requires any politi-
cal concession to lift her, as it were
to equality with her husband. Her
ADDRESS before an audience OF suf-
fragettes created sensation. and well
1t might, as the following brief ex-
tract will show: THE life of the
average Belgian" said the reformed
suffragette, Is one of benevolent
domestic tyranny, tempered by the
consultations Of the cafe His wife
manages everything. Most of all does
she manage him. Her expression is
intelligent, purposeful, self-confident,.
she does not know what man was
made for, since he takes so much
looking after and she treats him with
co1descending Indulgence as the weak.
er vessel There is nothing tenderly
beferentdal in her public attitude to
her lord She may take a pro.
prietory pride in the color and luxuri-
ance of his whiskers, but her atti-
tude Is maternal. and If, after two
stems he expands into slight con-
jugal eniearments, she represses him
in her own austere, frigid way. She