Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-02-18

women VINO AFRO OlbBruntAeus
A writer in the Baltimore Star has
an excellent article on the discomfort
Of the average woman She says:
Women are discontinued because
they are bad losers. There is not one
wSMan in a million that's got drop
Of sporting blood in her veins. When
she doesn't win out say 1t In shame
for my sex-she welches. This Is par
ticularly true in matrimony.
Most of the fretful, disconnected
women are married women, and their
complaint is about the monotony of
domestic life. They wall out that
they are always doing tasks that
have to be done right over again. That
they are cooking meals that are no
sooner cooked than eaten sweeping
floors that have to be swept up again;
darning socks that have got holes in
them the next day, and washing baby
faces that have got bread and jam on
them in ten minutes.
True, domestic life is monotonous.
So is every other kind of Work in
the world that one follows for liv-
ing. The bookkeeper adds up one
column of figures after another the
year around The shoemaker makes
thousands of pairs of shoes one after
another. The merchant wrestles with
the same cranky customers day in
and day out. The grinding monotony
of woman's work in the house Is
not bit more wearying than mans
is at his table or desk, yet men get
pleasure out of their work, and women
get nothing but discomfort out of
theirs.
1T is because they are lying down
on their jobs. They are not being
dead game sports. They dope 1t out
on some fool system that, although
matrimony may mean work, for them
1t Is going to be some sort Of a gilded
romance, and when it isn't. when they
find out that they've got to do with
out some or the things they wanted,
and do lot of things they don't want
to do, they put up howl about what
poor, prosecuted creatures they are.
Women are disconnected because
they are too self-conscious. They spend
their time vivisecting their emotions.
They coddle their misfortunes and
make pets and playthings of their
sorrows, and they are never SO happy
90 when they are miserable.
1.-THE minute any of us stop to ask
ourselves If we are happy and salts
ned, the answer is bound to be NO"
Because there Is no human being so
blessed as not to have some sore spot
in his or her heart, some void in life,
some crumpled rose leaf under the
forty mattresses of ease. Yet women
who know this fact perfectly well ag-
gravate whatever ingrowing trouble
they have in their lives by continually
harping upon 1t.
What women need more than any
thing else in the world is to be taught
the gospel of happiness. They need to
have it impressed upon them that dis
content is cowardice, and that If they
don't like the conditions by which
they are surrounded 1t is up to them
to change things. Otherwise to shut
up. To whine about thing and still
bear 1t is to act the part of cur dog.
Women also need to have it borne
in upon them that the woman who
goes OF in the summer with the chill
dren, who visits mother occasionally,
who can get of two or three after
moons week to shop, or go to the
matinee, or play bridge, and who still
complains of the monotony of her lot
to man who shows up at his office
As regular as clock for 313 days a
year certainly has her nerve with her.
1.-THE remedy for the disconnected
women is to put some heart in their
work, and to keep house with intelli-
gence instead of making 1t a dreary
round Of drudgery. And, above all,
to quit thinking about themselves so
much. Work and unselfshness-they
pace the road to happiness"