The Alaska citizen., 1915-08-02
Women in Their Kingdom of Home
CBy Ella Wheeler WilcoxD

X general survey of the homes about us would no; lead to the belief that woman has made her. self complete success in her own domain The successful wife and mother and homekeeper includes many and varied qualities.
 No matter what the station of the family. whether among the lab bring people. the tradesmen, or the professional and artistic classes whether in the home of wealth or the home of modest comforts, where strict economy must be practiced 10 secure life's daily needs. the sue. cessful home-maker must possess certain oldfashioned virtues and put them to daily use.
 She must be orderly in her mind and her habits first of all, and she must have high ideals of woman hood. of motherhood of wifehood and of the importance of the home d~ till l7tiANt Apli p4A N4iiNiA AiIt 7N cUrity of the nation rests.
 She must realize the necessity to make and keep her home and her self attractive and to live life that is above reproach, while she shines as a center for bright, in telligent social life. II is astonish ing and disappointing to see how few American women live up to these requirements.
 Every day and everywhere able bodied and well educated women are complaining of their dislike for housekeeping: of their trouble with domestiCs. of their longing for wider and more brilliant spheres than that of the domestic life. and every day the divorce court is granting free dom to men and women, who might have found happiness and peace and wholesome joys in the kingdom Of home had the wife set about the work of home making with the en- lightenment and lofty ideals which characterize success in other domains of endeavor. Women in this era long to shine. and few seem to real ize that there is no luster so dag zling as that of the halo which sur rounds an absolutely successful homemaker.
 There is the woman who has al lowed her ailments to obsess her mind. and who has destroyed ali the comfort provided by liberal husband by a continual thought of ill health. Rest cures, health re sorts and specialists consume the greater part of her husbands in come. and yet there is nothing what ever the matter with the woman, save careless diet and habits, which she could overcome with the eXer- else of common sense. Deep breath ing. outdoor aid, simple food, plenty of pure water or milk and right thinking would enable the woman to enjoy good health. But the home is sacrificed to her self indulgent ideas of inyalidism.
 Another woman has been provided with every luxury in the way of a beautifully appointed home and com plete wardrobe. A devoted husband, a lovely child should make this home a paradise. Instead the ser pent has entered it in the form of a man who plume5 himself upon his ability to lead silly women into compromising situations.
 The wife imagines this man in love with her, and shows her satisfaction in every way, wholly ignoring the husbands feelings, all unconscious that Gas is usual in such cases) the man is merely amusing himself at her expense, and that he openly boasts of his influence over her. Such a situation is not uncommon in the world, and there are many women of wealth and leisure, bless ed with every gift which makes earth beautiful to it's denizens, who find their only keen enjoyment in playing with edged tools-human