The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1916-05-09
Side Talks
By Ruth Cameron.

ing down 70 n" 9 friend said 20
ne the other day. Is we approached
: railroad station. 4 often used 10
come here a. i1st about this time Of |
dap The sumner We spent there.
Too bad you aren't going there I
NV. ! said. 4
she gave herself : little shake Of
digtaste Far from it." she said l
II gives ne tired-out feeling !ust
70 think Of il"
7 could scarcely believe ny ears.
The house al Mad been .
beautiful cottage il lovely sltua-
tion. II did not seem possible 10 me
that anyone could have help+d en-
joying il. ! said as much
WORK HARD. BUT
Yes" she said, ii was lovely,
but il wasn't peaceful. ! had two
families there-ny people and ny
husbands people-2nd ! had 10 keep .
things going smoothly. don't :.
mean that they didn't get on per |
tectly well together, but you know
how one person has 20 be the center
OF a family like that, and you can
/ inag CINE how hard il is Then there
was q good deal OF trouble with
I maids because we were 50 far out,
and I had TO adjust all that. I don
mean I had to work hard, il was just
trying TO keep everybody happy that
tired me"
Just trying 10 keep everybody
happy'-how many women that
must tire more than the actual work
they have 70 do,
1 TRYING TO PLEASE EVERYBODY
is A STRAIN
Just trying TO keep everybody
moving 50 smoothly that no one can
find a crevice to lodge complaint
in. just trying 10 please eyeryones
taste al the table, just trying 10
harmonic a family Of strongly in
diyidual personalities, 10 convince a
father that his son is not eXtraya-
CANT, and son that his father is
; not stingy, 10 keep a maid goodtem-
tpered when the family are late 10
meals, or bear the brunt of the family
/ i'll temper when a meal is late in ap-
pearing-iust these and a hundred
similar details Of adjustment help use
up the average homemaker's ner-
yous force.
. EVERY MOTHER AN ADJUST
MENT BUREAU
And in many cases she manages
all this under the constant strain OF
the fear of being scolded. Every
mother is an adjustment bureau OF
. domestic complaints. The woman al
: the adjustment bureau in the big
\ shop has no sinecure Of a position
:. but she does not have the same ner'
e vous strain To be sure, people are
= sometimes cross TO her, but it doesn
T matter so much, because they are mo-
i the people she cares about. At tbs
Is mothers adjustment bureau, on tbs
&c other hand. the complaints are al
y from those she loves the best ant
X whose disapproyal hurts her tn
d most And mothers, somehow, neve
II get used TO being scolded, which, a
le l have remarked before, is incompre
d hensible, becaus they get so mucl
10 practice in endurance.
II The epitaph over many tired lit
% tie mother who folds her very hand
W and succumbs to some minor diseas
IL might well be:
i she gave daily of her vitality t
rs oil the achinery of family life, an
had none left TO save herself in tn
T. time of need
- SATISFACTION
hired a man to hoe my squashes
- he came, in gauntlets and galoshe
q, at the appointed hour; he threw h
at coat upon some boulders, and role
n his shirt sleeves TO his shoulder, an
: hoed with vim and power. He d.
not pause at times to cackle abol
the war, nor yet to tackle the grie'
Gus income tax; he slew the wee
that threatened shocking the vim
cd and kept his hoe a-smoking, al
IN buckled down like wax. And wh'
~ his toilsome task was ended up
- the house this worker wende
IN where l sat smoking hay; "Con
a out" he saids where I've been no
nd ing, and see I've made a prop
1t showing, before drew my pay"
fell upon his neck and kissed hiI
and hung some laurels on his sy
TEN, and cried, You take the hui
~ For seldom do I see a fellow wi
or. cares how punk his work, or yello,
he so that he gets the mon. I am e
lin chanted with your labors, I'll re
ommend you to my neighbors, al
a. boost you through the town; the to-
70 er who, by every action endeavo
Ten to give satisfaction, deserves a his
renown."
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