The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1915-07-24
Why Women
Wear Out
BY EDNA X. WOOLEY.

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A busy clubwUmau. II woman doct,r
d business woman, aud n schoolmn'pm
,"'s'hs III their ages from - to a..
"nppehed TO come together lnte one
AFTERNOON In the room " IL sweet old
SOU who has been II shut.in. and he'd
ridden, FOR many wears.
The Old Judy, propped among her
Pillows, looked from one tired roca 10
another, while ench " her visitors
'"Iu how they had hurried I'm their
uutleS In order 10 spend Il little time
WIN her. She listened sympatheti.
cnily, and when they had finished
she began IN the mlldest VI tones to
read them u little lecture.
want you should look al me "
she said Il want you should re
member how you have seen me all
these years And want you should
80 back Il great many years with me
no" ana take II lesson from III, life
on see me Il helpless old woman
mere aud should he dead now but
Tor my dear children, who carry me
on their hands, as It were. But II 1
mad only known long ago how 10 take
chre OF myself, | would be on nv feet
now, active and useful, aud glad to
be living.
Nobody thought there was any
limit to what a woman should do iu
my day. our parents started us to
WORK when we were mere babies.
when | see my little granddaughter
come In from her outdoors play. |
thlhk how much better things are now
Tor the little girls. Oh. how we girls
had 10 work! And so much of It was
indoor work
How well remember, when | was
Is years old, one OF our neighbor
families was taken down with typhoid
fever. Five were sick AT one time
~Nelghbors helped each other out In
those DAYS was only IL. but | had
TO do my share aud | was sent over
There 10 do all the homework and all
The washing FOR that family. was
there three weeks, aud when I came
nome was sick My parents we're
getting ready 10 20 on Il long visit
ana as they thought ! wasn't really
SICK, they went aud left me home
with my sister. The next day | was
IN bed with pleurisy aud though | got
Wei OF Tint IN time, somehow 1 never
really seemed TO get rcal strong again
Il wasn't taught how to save my
self, and | thought II was my duty
TO never spare my own strength. |
married young and went to my hus
bands farm, where a wOman's bur
dens were even worse. for then the
children came-qulckly | can't tell
YOU Just can't tell YOU how |
worked And nobody never told me
different, or warned me what | would
come to. ! saw wrecks Of women all
around In the farm homes, hut |
didn't take II 10 myself.
$50 ] want YOU should look nj me
and take me for an example I used
to think city women wouldn't come To
what country women came 10. But
city women expect too much " them
too. Every time | see your
faces they look more tired, and
your voices are always kind
In this room. | feel they're growing
sharper underneath, and when you
speak ~ your work It's always about
the hurry OF II. You know so much
more than the women NJ my time
knew, and YOU ought to know that
women can't stand too much"
But. dear lady" spoke the business
woman, we're 50 driven. We must
Keep up the pace. or somebody pushes
us aside"
Driven" repeated the club woman.
that's the word. We simply can't
There never seemed 10 be so many
people before" said the doctor,
whose eyes were heavy lIdded from
nights spent beside her pa
And children never seemed 40 hard
TO teach" sighed the schoolma'am, ,
and never before did there seem so
much that had Ia he taught 10 them. ct
u want you should take me for an
example" repeated the "shut.in. IA.
In her mild voice. 81 want
Won should think about these things
now, instead ot when you're helpless
md worn out before your time. Just
life n little easier even n you
show OF 10 much. We all want
10 show OFF In something That's
what drives us. Take my word for It.
I have had time TO think"