The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1910-03-03


A writer In the Baltimore Star he
an excellent article on the disconter
Of the average woman She says;
women are disconnected beeaus
they are bad losers There Is not on
/ weEan In million that's got dro
Of sporting blood in her veins whel
she doesn't win ont-I say It in sham
for my sex she welches This Is par
tieularly true in matrlmony.
Most OF the fretful. discontinued
women are married women. and theil
complaint Is about the monotony o.
domestic life. They vail 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 dey out. The grinding monotony
OF a womans work Ia 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 II out
on some fool system that. although
matrimony may mean work. for them
II is going to be some sort of a gilded |
romance. and when II Isn't. when they |
find out that they've got to do with |
out some OF the things they wanted.
and do lot OF things they don't want /
10 do. they put up howl about what
poor. prosecuted creatures they are.
Women are discontinued because
hey are too self-consclous. They spend
heir time vivisecting their emotions
they eoddle their mlsfortunes and
make pets and playthlngs OF their
orrows. and they are never 50 happy
q when they are miserable
The minute any OF Us stop 10 ask
II we are happy and salts
ed. the answer Is bound TO be NO
because there Is no human being 40
lessed as not 10 have some sore spot
4 his or her heart. some void in life.
ome crumpled roae leaf under the
'rty mattresses OF ease. Yet women
no know this fact perfectly well az
rayate whatever insrowinx trouble
ley have In their lives BY continually
arpfng upon H.
What women need more than any. :
ling else In the world Il 10 be taught
'e gospel Of happiness. They need to
I'VE II impressed upon them that dis. }
intent Is cowardice. and that n they o
mt like the conditions BY which a
ey are surrounded II is up to them I
change things Otherwise to shut +
}. To whine about thing and stlIi
ar II Is to act the part OF cur dog n
Women also need to have II borne Al
upon them that the woman who a
Is or in the summer with the chill 4
en-. who visits mother occasionally. n
10 can set OF two or three after. al
ons a week 70 shop. or 20 TO the m
ltinee. or play bridge. and who stliI m
mplains OF the monotony Of her lot
man who shows up at his once Il
regular as a clock for sf3 days a y
" certainly has her nerve with her. AZ
The remedy for the disconnected NJ
men Is 20 put some heart IN their m
TX. and to keep house with InteliI- co
ice instead OF making It a dreary Jc
md OF drudgery And. above ali.
quit thinking about themselves 50
oh. Work and unseifshness
o the road 10 happiness" =,