The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-06-16
WOMAN'S WORLD.

We've put a fine addition on the good old
church at home,
It's just the latest kilter, with gailerS
and dome.
It seats a thousand peopie-nnest cnurch
in all the town,
And when twas dedicated why we plahked
ten thousand down;
That is, we paid five thOusand-every dea-
con did his best
And the Ladies' Aid society, it promised
all the rest.
We've got an organ in the church-the fin
est in the land,
It's got thousand pipes or more, It's mel
And when We sit in cushioned pews, and
hear the master play,
1t carries us to realms of bliss unnumbereu
1t cost a cool three thousand, and it's stood
the hardest test;
Well pay thousand on 1.-THE Ladies
Aid the rest.
They'll give hundred sociables, cantatas.
too, and teas;
They'll bake a thousand angel CAKES and
tons of cream they'll freeze.
They'll beg and Scrape and toll and sweat
for seven years or more,
And then they'll start all Ger again, for
carpet on the floor.
No; it isn't just like digging out the money
from your vest,
When the Ladies' Aid gets busy, and says
''We'll pay the rest"
OF course, we're proud Of our big church,
from pulpit up to spire;
1t is the darling of our eyes. the crown Oh
our desire.
But when I see the sisters work to raise
the cash that lacks,
l somehow feel the church Is built on
womcns tired backs,
And sometimes l can't help thinking Wnen
we reach the regions blest, :,
That men will get the toll and sweat, and
the Ladies' Aid-the re-, rest o5:os,,rtor,on
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Preparing for Marriage.
If the question were put to every girl
who is preparing to be married, What
do you consider are the most important
duties in which you should train yourself
before marriage in order to make your
self a good wife," l wonder how many
different kinds of answers there would
be.
once knew bride-elect who told me
that she considered the most important
duty in her married life would be to
wear pretty clothes so that she might
always be a fitting adornment to her
husbands house.
Well, of course, dress certainly does
rank as a duty i'll every station of life;
but the girl who puts dress first and also
last, is scarcely the one to claim the hon
or of being styled an ideal wife.
There are many duties counted as lit
tie that are in reality of very great i'm
portance.
Naturally, the most obvious is to be-
come a trained manager, so that one can
rule ones own home with skill and judg-
ment.
Experience, bitter and costly, may
bring to her in time the training she
should have undergone in the days of
81, l1,,+ &c
tinged with remembrances of humiliation
and modification of spirit. and she is q
wise girl who recognizes that the duties
of housekeeping should be learned before
hand.
But there are other duties less obvious
in which every bride-elect should train
herself. How many girls before mar
riage, l wonder, try to practice the art
of self-control in speech and temper that
stands the average wife in such good
stead when the adoring lover has become
the more critical husband.
Il is well to reflect that even the most
perfect man is likely to be q little I'M
reasonable and irritable at times, and
to remember that the first little rift al
most invariably arises from a hasty re-
tort that provokes an answering discOrd.
Training i'll self-control is an invalua-
BILE prep ration for marriage, and one
that goes a long way towards the max
AuS VI Il happy nome.
Courtesy and forbearance should be
practiced, too. Some girls are ready
enough to accept attentions and devotion
without making any return for it.
The girls in love should train them
selves before marriage to remember that
justice is the foundation stone of true
happiness, and learn not to be continu-
ally sacrificing her only preferences and
lkings because she wants to please the
man of her choice
Generosity must be tempered by rea-
son and justice, and the brfde-elect of a
too unselfsh spirit must train herself in
the hard lesson of not giving too prodi-
gally of her services, unless the recipient
is of an equally generous nature.
Let her begin by claiming the rights
and pleasures that are really due to her,
and if she is girl of magnanimous and
just spirit she will never oyerstep the
boundaries of unselfshness.
Training in these moral and spiritual
duties forms a very real preparation for
marriage, and the lessons of self-control
and discipline that are obtained from
their practice are needed for the making
of the ideal wife.-Mrs. George Brandt
Winthrop in Exchange.
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Oxalic Acid Uses.
Oxalic acid is a poison and should be
labeled as such, but it has many house
hold uses. Buy a dimes worth of gran
ules, pour a pint of water over it and
keep it in safe place. If a straw hat
needs cleaning, a little of the acid solu-
ton will make white or yellow straw as
clean as new. The straw must always
be rinsed with clear water. If table
..damask is badly stained, place the
stained part over a dish and dampen it
with diluted acid. Rub the stain with
an old toothbrush. AS soon as the stain
disappears, cover the damp part with
lard or olive oil and wash the fabric
Always apply some oil or lard to any
fabric cleaned with the acid The acid
will remove rust marks. The acid must
never be used full strength on any fabric,
for it will destroy the material. When
hands are stained from fruit or vegeta-
bles, few drops of acid solution in wa
ter will remove the stains.
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When Mark Twain Conquered Oxford.
Among the many tender and apprecia-
tive tributes paid to the memory of Mark
Twain is one by Helen Ring Robinson,
who was present when he received de-
gree from the University of Oxford. She
writes in the Denver News:
Many honors had been his in the clad
days and the grey OF a long life. But
that one day-that Recognition day at the
ancient Foundation-must have fingered
in his memory as a supreme day of DAYS
even till that final moment wnen all
earthly sounds and memories faltered
and faded and ceased amid the mists of
the Great Divide.
My own memory still thrills when I
recall the day. There were throngs of
tourists from all parts of the world
gathered in the venerable university city