The Washington herald., 1921-07-18
TEN COMMANDMENTS OF THE
SUMMER WOMEN.

Take a holiday. no matter hhow
much you think you can't. Grid up
your straight front. and take purse
and scrip. and journey TO some
place as different as you can find
from your regular abiding place.
Even the beasts of burden are en-
titled to a respite from their la
bors. and no housewife can find rest
in her own home. thoughfshe seek II
with a search warrant and with
tears.
Even the butcher, and the baker,
and the ice man, and the laundry
boy will be hammering on her
Goor, and the cry of "mo-o-e-ther
will never be out of her ears. and
her husband will be asking: "Where
- the tack hammer and my clean
shirt?' and the daughters crying
out: please put a new rufhe on
my blouse. and the sons demand
ing to have a razor crease, pressed
in their trousers. And there will
be no peace for her under her own
roof.
And the nerves of the woman who
has prepared 1,095 regular meals,
and Heaven knows how many extra
ones in a twelve month. and who
has washed little faces 100000
times, and picked UP bushels Of ci-
gars stubs and tons of newspapers,
need TO be ironed out. Also her
temper requires to be soothed and
the ache In her back assuaged, and
| there is Balm of Gilead for her
only in spots afar from her family.
second.
When you take your vacation go
not with the partner OF your bosom.
Reflect that in a twelve month a
husband and wife tell each other
everything they know. and, they
weary OF each others jokes and
stories, ana become so bored that
they are driven to fighting in order
to prevent themselves from yawn-
ing in each others faces.
Therefore go East il your hus-
band goes West or vice versa. and
when you come together again yoa
shall be as interesting to each other
as strangers, full of new tales.
Third.
Perhaps your husbands business
is such that he can, not leave II
even for a short trip to the seashore
or mountain. All the vacation ne
| can get is being free from you and
The children for a little while. and
getting out Of the domestic grind
while you are away. Do not spoil
his little holiday by writing him TO
he sure to take in the milk. and put
out the cat, and not to forget to
water the flower boxes and to. send
you by parcel post about 100000
things you forgot. Remember that
the family goat has a right to his
hour of freedom. and the patient
OK that treads out the corn to slip
his yoke, now and then.
Fourth.
Remember that absence makes
the heart grow fonder IL admins
tered in homeopathic doeses, but
that given in heroic quantity 1t kills
the need of love. Therefore so
time your stay that you will remain
until all the dishes are soiled. and
SldChCu lhc oAu A0 SH~~~-.
towels or sheets are to- be had,
and hubby's shirts and ties are
permanently lost, but do not stay
until your man has bought a. patent
dishwasher and learned to do with
out you.
Write to your husband now and
then a letter that is full Of love and
appreciation, and that doesn't end
up with a request for check. 1t
Is harder for a camel to go through
the-eye Of a needle than II is for
a man to keep up a romantic love
for a woman who is chief Of a
hold-up gang
II you still retain your girlish
figure and shake a wicked foot in
the dance, look well to your repu-
tation. for the old cats who sit
upon the hotel galleries and knit
!. will snatch It from you and rend
II into tatters, and the mothers of
homely daughters who paper the
wall will despitefully use you.
Therefore. yield not to Irritation
when 1t tempts you to try to see
IL your eyes-have lost their come-op
look, and say Get thee behind me.
Satan" to youths with silk hair
and under-slung cars who murmur
about the moon being fair and
knowing road house where you
can still get 1t. For what profiteth
II to a woman to listen to little
love making il thereby she loses
her meal ticket?
Seventh.
As you have children, be merci-
full 1t is within your power to
destroy the peace and comfort, and
break the rest Of all within ear shot
of your progeny. Reflect that TO
others the voice Of your babe raised
In walls In the night time is not
music as 1t is to you. Nor do the
people who room on either side of
you perceive hnmor in. the cunning
pillow fights at a. <m.. in which
your htgh-spirfted youngsters in
dulge with shouts Of glee, There
fore, suppress your youngsters and
take them apart to play. and 30