Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1912-02-07
The Mother Beautiful.

While beautiful home and an i'm
maculately kept house are desirable,
and while they bring contentment and
peace into the hearts of those who
go into them, the housemother should
never forget that she zoo must be
beautiful, must save her strength and
her health for her household, or else
the house will be but fine casket
without jewel to encase. Beauti-
full jewel cases are nice to have, but
what is the case when compared to
the fine stones and costly golden or
naments that it contains? If mother
is ill, if she grows pale and thin and
her hair grows gray long before the
time then what avails. the immacu-
late house, the shining windows, the
spotless linens? Mother is the price
less jewel which should be housed
in the home and not eclipsed by it.
But, heartless as it may sound, the
truth is that unless a woman takes
care of herself, no one is going to do
it for her. Husband and children
may love her devotedly, but if she
willingly makes slave of herself,
tireless]y going around after them
picking up and cleaning up. and keep
ing the house in 'apple pie ORDER
they are going to let her do it. She
is unconsciously forging her own
chains when she does not insist in the
merest baby among her children pick
ing up his toys and hanging up his
own little coats. Her husband will
love her none the more for being a
slave. Indeed the average specimen of
the genus homo likes to have women
"order him about" and he really en-
joys taking care of his own clothes,
and picking up his own belongings, if
his wife insists upon it from the first.
Every man likes better to see his
wife smiling at him from the end of
the table, and wearing pretty gown,
than to see her in old clothes, tired
out, and with her hair forty ways
wife saying at my elbow: Eyes, that
may be true for the town women. but
farmers don't care - Farmers are
men, and they are frequently men of
excellent taste. Farmers wives are
just as pretty and have just as good
right to keep their good looks as has
the city woman. The only thing is
thai custom seems. to have decreed
that the farm woman wear unfashion-
able clothes and exc out her life in
j
thing-if ne ighbors didn't bother he
i'll the latest fashions, and make a
much better appearance than many
tagged out town women, who don't
get a chance, or who will not take
the chance to work out in the fresh
country air, and keep their blood in
circulation. The farmers wife should
be more independent. l know one
such woman, who is thought by all
her neighbors to be "stuck up' be-
cause she takes several of the latest
magazines, and keeps up with the
things that are doing in the world
1t hurts her very much that her
neighbors think her proud and exclus-
i've, but she clings to the magazines.
She has some care for herself and in
cidentally for her husband and chill
dren. She does not dress in the ex-
treme of fashion, but her clothes have
a fresh, dainty look about them. and
her husband, although a bluff old
farmer, likes it immensely. and be
gives her an allowance, what's more
How many farmers do that, l wonder?
Don't the wives have to depend on
butter and egg money, and don't
hundreds of farmers wives labor
harder than the men to add to the
bank account in town. What for,
may | ask? do not know. / an
sure where woman works she ought
to be paid, and I am sure woman
ought to have pretty clothes and that
her husband ought to get them fol
her. Farmers do not belong to the
class that has to work in shops at &
pittance per week. That class may
have some excuse for not dividing
their wages with their wives. but the
| farmer can do it. If he will and hi!
wife can have her allowance if sht
will only start out right with her lore
/ and master.
With neatly dressed housewife
with eyes bright with health ant