The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1909-11-10
STAY-AT-
Duties Of Sweet June Graduates Who
Eschew Professional Life.

Eschew Professional Life.
With the passing of June school life
will end for many girl. Some. will
elect to take up profession or bust
ness. The girl who stays at home will
probably give the matter no consdera-
ton whatever, but she should.
She has just as important work
awaiting her in the home as has the
girl in an Office. Her decision will af-
feet her future life quite as much as
though she were taking up a profess
sion. 1t is quite important to the fam
lily and to herself what kind of home
girl she will he.
If she is going TO be the home girl
who comes down late to breakfast
her mother has prepared, who idles
through the morning dawdling in the
shops or gossiping with friends who
wastes the afternoons and evenings In
mere gossip or gayeties. home life will
be n decided disadvantage to her. She
will deteriorate morally and mentally.
She will grow selfish and lazy. No girl
should permit herself to become this
sort of home girl, even though her
mother may want to indulge her or
the family circumstances may permit
of idlcness. 1t is not enough merely
to live. An animal can do that One
should live to some purpose.
4 certain amount of gayeties and
pleasures are right and necessary.
.ip1h nt,f oil ofe
time should be given up to them. Life
demands Of a healthy, bright. forceful
girl something more worth while.
Pleasure should be given its proper
place and proportion in the days af-
fairs, like the dessert on the menu.
One cannot live on it altogether with
out becoming flabby and unhealthy.
The girl who stays at home should
take her share Of the household tasks.
The time has come to lift some Of the
burdens from mothers shoulders, TO
give more time and sympathetic atten-
ton to the interests of the younger
members of the family, to add to IA
Tiers pleasure in the family circle of
an evening. The girl who is home
to study the home life in all its de-
tails will find plenty to do to help and
to make it happier And the girl who
stays at home should do it. A study
of household economies might be of
greatest aid in lessening the household
expenses or tightening the burden of
its toll. She will be wise girl if she
takes this up. She has elected to
make home work her life work. and
she should bend all efforts to do it as
scientifically and intelligently as pos
sible. She win get far more pleasure
out of it also If she goes about it in
the most up TO date manner
The girl who stays at home should
take an intelligent interest in the af-
fairs of the community about her.
Sunday schools and charitable organi-
cations need workers. Business wom-
en- are too busy and too tired to do
much of such work Justice to them
selves demands that they rest and re-
cuperate when their days task is over.
The girl who stays at home can also
help much now in many civic affairs.
The girl who stays at home should
not shlrk such responsibilities. They
will broaden her life, make it more
useful and happier. And when she
goes to a home Of her own she is bet
ter fitted to manage it and to make it
haven of love and rest for her own
and power for good for the commu-
nifty.