The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-07-29

some heavy, washing; there were
blankets and quilts and spreads.
When | saw it was time for the wiring
wringer-it was guaranteed to wiring
blankets, quilts, all manner of bed
ding, carpeting, as we'll as the finest
and daintiest of fabrics. 1 had tried
it with many light test, why not
the harder zones? - 3rt' when Aunt
Judy spied it coming, she waved it
back. you needn't bring that thing
out fob mel done broke one of them
things for Mis- Sniff. She say them
wringing machines wiring out quilts
jest as handy as 'twould lace curtains,
SO puts it to work, and when 1 gins
to turn-whack! crack! went the
thing, and there it wuz, split to
pieces! Mis- Sniff she comes a-rnn-
MIN out, Lory, Aunt Judy, you broke
my new wringer!' She was mad as
a wet hen-and I amt a-faultin' her
| for being mad-but I'm going to use
the wringer the Lord give me after
this" And despite my assurances
that the looseningt of certain screws
might help in preventing breakage,
etc., she began to twist the water
out in the old fashioned way, and so
l turned in and helped her, with the
result that my hands were blistered,
and my arms have not ceased aching
yet. Aunt Judy, however, was well
content, and sat down and smoked
her pipe in peace after the struggle
was over.
And one might go on forever sum-
ming up woes, and still the question
would harass one-why must woman
go on directing all her talents artistic,
inventive, etc., toward other fields
than the home life? Who, or what,
is to blame? We read where Rous-
seau says, Man is what woman
makes him. Then again we read
from the writings of another great
possible-Balzac, and he says, WON
an is what man makes of her."
Whatever man praises and exalts,
that, woman strives to become.
i Therefore, he should create the types
he desires her to become. He should
praise careers he would see woman
follow. And he should never permit
an abnormal taste to color his con-
ceptions of womans highest devel-
opment. He must remember that in
many things she is capable of sur
passing HMM virtue, self-sacrifice,
in absolute devotion to some certain
cause. So if there be some degree of
truth in the saying that MAN is what
woman makes him. there is also
present somewhat of the quality OF
truth in the other. If woman's
natural taste is perverted from the
right channel, mans lily advised
plaudits of woman's achievements out
been the winds that turned aside the
vane upon which her eye of vanity OF
noble ambition was fixed.
But surely we may believe that the
. young woman of today will begin the
, righting process independently Of
} other influence save that of her owI
/, wise, good judgment. Already across
} the face of society we see streaks Of
) a dawning toward revival of domestic
t achievements, with woman at the
! lead. The doing well of simple things
r with dignity and self-respect; the in
/ frequency of the old hue and cry o.
/ something sensational and spectacu
. lar attached to woman's work; thu
) sort of fuss that somehow puts one il
| the unpleasant humor of having tt
q taste the dust, and sense the paltr.
3 clatter that follows after stree
al scene in which monkey and a par