The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-09-09

A young woman who had been mar
ried four years declined to sing for
her friends who knew she had spent
years in vocal study under good mast
ers, saying she had given up her music
since her marriage.
Yet after the marriage ceremony
the wise woman will redouble her eff
forts to make herself accomplished
to add in every way to her mental,
social, physical and spiritual attrac-
tons
To be successful wife and mother,
and happy one, to be able to keep
the love and admiration Of the aver
age husband, is a science and an art.
This is an age of restless excite
ment,, of change, of continual move
ment, and of progress in many things.
When people lived quiet lives in
villages and there were no methods
of transportation save stage coaches
and sailing ships, men and women SET
tied into peaceful home living ways,
and grew old together, and if they
were incompatible, or uncongenial in
temperament, they either did not
know it, or else regarded it as one of
Gods mysterious ways of working for
their good.
But just as the race is able to move
about rapidly by means of steam,
motors and airships, so the minds Of
men and women move restlessly and
rapidly from idea to idea, and seek
continual distraction, continual change.
The young woman who becomes Il
wife today has an entirely different
proposition to face from the one her
grandmother encountered on her we'd
ding day.
While the ancestress felt the need
of being good housekeeper good
cook and nurse and seamstress, in or
der to fulfill her obligations as wife,
the bride of today must make herself
competent rival of other women,
whose business it is to amuse and en-
terrain mankind. She must do this,
in addition to the possession and cult
walton of the old-fashioned virtues of
loyalty, good housekeeping, economy
and good nature. Good housekeeping
in olden times meant the doing of all
tie household tasks; but TODAY it
means understanding how to direct
others to do them with dispatch, neat
ness and economy.
And the time saved by the present
day good housekeeper will enable hel
to cultivate herself in the arts and &C
complishments. if she has the goot
sense and ambition to set about it.
The young wife, however happy ant
satisfied with herself, and whatever
her faith may be in her husbands ev
erlasting love, needs to develop thu
very best within herself from the da!
she marries; to. add to her menta
store of knowledge by reading for a
least half-hour daily: to practice he
music. to join gymnasium or A.;
school of physical culture, and if sh'
cannot do this. by belonging to SOM
such organization, to take the lesson
by correspondence.
as any man worth al this trou
ble?' asks a skeptic 'If a man is no
not noble enough to prize a good VIC
man who loves him, takes care of hi
home, and is loyal, is he worth takin
so much trouble for? Would he no
tire Of the woman who cultivated hel
, self just as soon as he was used t
herr"
But should this prove to be the fac
would not the woman who had mad
the most of herself, in her three d.
mains, be better prepared to get som
happiness and interest out of life tina
one who had relied wholly upon he
, goodness?
; The world (as well as mankind
= wants interesting, vital, up-to-dat'
= progressive women, and to these WI
men 1t will potr out it's benefits.
5 If your husband, dear lady, is so III
appreciative that he can not be hel
e by you, you are at least better able
t find admiration, attention and apr
e citation as you go along your wa
: alone after he deserts you. An
these things count for something