The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1908-01-03

AN IDEAL WOMAN.

IN private life Clara Morris, the
once famous emotional actress, is Mrs
Fred g. Harriott, and the fact that
each spring her husband plants
fiower-pot with her initials, G. M. H.,
thus carrying out Tennyson's fancy.
II 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 for
the well-stored mind. If a woman
has sympathy, and if she is well read
there is little else needed"
Were / to advise some girl OF ~
at the beginning of her career
whether that career led her along the
loye-illumined levels of wifehood ana
motherhood, or to the heights OF ar
tistic endeavor. should say to her:
The most important thing in Wo-
mans life is to keep her self-respect.
eve hear a great deal about having
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
rife who must see that they continue
exist. She should not say: Wnen
on were calling on me before our
marriage you did not keep your nat
on while talking to me-. II she dld,
she would wound him. But II her
own manners are exquisitely consld-
crate he will try to equal them she
sets the standard and he tries TO
live up to II"
every woman wants to be HAPPY;
but / don't think the happiest persons
ever think much about whether they
are happy or not. It would never
have occurred to me at any time OF
my life to SET out to seek our nappl-
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 woman who has
tried hard to secure position IN
a household for another woman OF
refinement-a friend-who was IN
such straitened circumstances that It
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 eficient domestic tnan
presents itself in intelligence ofhces,
she naturally supposed that she should
have no difficulty in securing deslr-
able place for her friend who is IN
robust health and still young Wo-
man. besides having had the expert
ence of successfully managing nome
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 mad
been distracted over the domestic
problem of no help, and were Offering
$25 with no sweeping or washing,
were not disposed to accept the SER
vice of the gentlewoman and in the
few instances where they signihed a
willingness to do SO offered her $40
a month, in home where $22 had
been paid for the services OF negro
girl, and SIS 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-
men taking up domestic service
Vogue.