Arizona republican., 1915-03-14

until she is strong enough to do the ' rest without bodily strain.
 Many exhausted women have found | while sick in bed, that the world kept 1 right on going round, and John and the | children managed to get along some | how for whole week without her i washing on Monday. ironing Tuesday, cleaning and sweeping Wednesday, sewing all day Friday and cooking and baking over a hot stove on Saturday, then getting all the rest bathcd and dressed and off somewhere, and q real good dinner all ready by the time they get back on the Blessed Day of Rest. Sometimes it occurs to her aftcrward that if she had taken that lax week Of just letting things go, one week earlier it might have saved the sick spell and | the doctors bill. It would be q great revelation some times, to woman. to know that it may I be more her own fault than any body's else that things are not as they should be in her own kingdom. Selfrespect. | selfcontrol and gencralship may be l cultivated by all and will go far. Christine Herrck says:
 q have shrewd suspicion that when there is trouble about money matters, in the life of husband and l wife, and her rights are pushed to one l side or wiped out altogether. it is due quite often to her unreasonablcness or 1 over sensitivcncss as to his stingines,; | or lack of consideration"
 | Making a domestic martyr of her l self is so popular with the over con scicntious young wife and mother that l it requires real hcroism to forego the l pleasure. And after all is said and | done, the average husband does not love the self denying. shabby wife, as he would the one who commands re- 1 Spect by her manner and appearance, ! as well as her many good qualities A normal man wants to be proud of-4lis l wife in every way. Not that snc Mlil | plunge wildly into spending. and buy things unsuitod to their income. but rather that the economies are shared l by all. and the good things equally 1 portioned out to each member of the 1 home circle.
 The happy. well dressed, cnterprisinS | wife is q business asset
 l Recently man connected with a l bank in one of the agricultural sec tions Of Indiana. said: When our firm 1 is asked to make q loan to a farmer not ] well known to the firm. il is my busi
 ness to drive to the farm and oStcsl-
 sibly look over the crops and stock, but
 do you know, if there is any uncertain ty about the advisabiity of making the
 loan the thing I invariably take 'as
 final argument in balancing q decs-
 ion. is the attitude of the farmers
 wife. We have for years found this
 test so reliable that it has long since
 come to be one of the principles of the
 firm. If the wife is tired and over
 worked discouraged and pessmistic. l think things are not so likely to go we'll
 and quite possibly she will persuade
 her husband to move to some other To-
 calty If the farmers wife is found to
 be business like, contented, cheerful | and optimistic, I'm not afraid to make
 loan to her husband. for. purely form the cold business side of the situation
 not taking into account here any con-
 sideration of sentiment, that family is l likely to succeed"
 Such wife will be a daily hclpmate
 to her husband. inspiring him to his
 best efforts. It would be hard to over
 estimate the actual advantage of the
 man who enjoys the cheery companion ship of happy contented wife. over
 the man whose tired, overworked wife 1 meets him morning, noon and night with nagsing or omnous silence be- I h .f,. which she feels ought to he different
 that there's very little room there for
 anything else.
 And what of the children? Jane
 Adams says: "A mother croons an old
 time song as she tolls A father speaks kindly as home from work he crosses
 the threshhold which leads to wife and
 rest from labor. The child :"
 hears both song and gentle word. The father still toil stained. stoops to
 kiss the mother He speaks softly
 mayhap:
 'Howdy sweetheart; glad to be home
 again." I'm glad to have YOU
 home" Of all this the child is the witness. Things of the world are yet new and strange to it. Mysteries still tconfront it. Guiding stars it is search ing for. and To- in the very greetings of
 mother and father, in their own loving
 attitude toward each other, tLis unde- Veoped life finds a star If on the
 other hand the child must see in the daily home life. impaticnce, selfishness:
 hear nasty or angry words, from those
 whom it knows long before it under
 stands the law of city. county. state, , or nation, whot contempt must natur-
 ally grow in it's heart for those things that make for the best of life, law and
 order. genteness of speech, regard and
 love for others, trustfulness and hope
 fuiness."
 The sincere wish of one rural woman n
 for all rural women is, that each may
 make the most of herself so that she will be the joy and inspiration of her husband and that they together, hus-
 band and wife may build the home in , whose genial atmosphere the children will not fail to find the guiding stars MRS. II. C. LOCkETT Mrs Henry D. Ross. president of
 the Arizona Federation of Women's
 clubs will make an address on The Rural club in the state Federation" at the Coterie club of Valley Heights lon Monday Mrs Ross will he inc