The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-01-18
The Use and
Uselessness of 1t

been spent on her education, too. now
she is going to get married" ]
know you have heard so many people
say it, because have. They wag
their heads. they nod their best bon
nets .hey mingle their curl papers, and
they mako largo whispers among
themselves about the pity OF 1t ALL
And tho pity of what. pray? That q
girl has received u college education.
and Is now about to be married, az II
anybody could assume n husband and
run house without tho slightest need
for Greek and comic sections. True,
neither OF the subjects may be OF the
slightest aid to a housekeeper in build
ing n jelly pie or constructing pud-
ding, but, as they said at tho mass
meeting on Tuesday, you have Just
got TO bring intelligence to bear upon
It.
So many. indeed. you know who
really and truly believes that 1t
doesn't take q grain OF sense to man
ago a household and Ill the Office OF
heed of n home 1t In a sacred task.
and ono that needs all the heart and
nll the head that one woman can
gather to accomplish. and thero lie
sometimes q sad and rueful ending TO
what might have been happiness and
acontent. all because the woman was
just as sweet as she could be, but
nearly as silly as she was pretty. OF
course. you do feel rather sorry for
the parents that have strained every
point to educate their daughter for
the operate stage. and just when she
has rotten n hearing before some big
manager. who will mako her fortune
and render some interest on the
parents hard-eerned money, she de-
Now the boy at homo has truly loved
her all OF her sweet little life, but
he cannot tell the most wonderful
Wagnerian music from tho tune of
The Old Cow Crossed the Road" SO
1t seems sort Of pity. doesn't II? But
you must remember unlesn she abso-
lutely loses the voice singing her small
sons and daughters to sleep winter
nights, perhaps she could use her gift
10 turn honest pennies IL the occasion
should arise for Il.
il is SO necessary that every girl
to-day should be educated to do some
one thing by which she may make her
own living. 1t is an old song, and
one that has been harped the country
through. because the day is over when
maiden aunts live with loving brothers
and do all the mending and make all
everybody can't crochet the mats and
cmbroider the doilies and lingerie for
the world, since the demand is limited
10 n certain extent and some OF US
must be- bookkeepers and clerks and
dressmakcrs and stenographers and.
inayhap writer's and spinners OF verse.
But, best OF ALL and first of all. we
mus, he taught that II takes all the
intelligence and all OF the education
and all OF the mathematics that col
lcge education can give for one TO In
scribe her home with order and ays-
TEN and freedom from small irrita
tons. One cannot simply move into
the house of dreams and run tho
phantom place on pretends. You must
be practical about even happiness. al
though you hate to say II, md you
must build the strength and life OF
your home with firm. steady fingers
that never falter and heart that
never knows defeat.
That Is the great and crying need Of
our country to-day. Better homes
and tho words sound SO trite written
down-yet that is the only way to say
H. better places from which TO send
out your children with clear. sweet
eyes that find the world u garden fair.
meet for their own home building.
Better mothers, although the earth Is
full OF them II IS tho provision that
the generation to-day must not depart
from the way of the past Why, II
takes all the lore and learning Of the an
clients and all the brain and science
Of the greatest nations of the universe
10 build the temple OF that home Of
yours. to construct II true and high and
broad, because so many of us don't
want a real home-we want q place to
live, where everything Is finished and
complete. i am afraid we do not want
to build with our own fingers and upon
our own love- BRENT WITT
Fifth Avenue Styles.
Startlingly short almost showine
tho boot tops, new short skirt has
just made Its appearance on Fifth
Avenue, New York. The gown was of
black velvet cloth. II was made with
two TERED skirt, the upper tier
slightly fiaring. The lower edge Of the