Woman's work. (Athens, Georgia) 1887-1???, May 01, 1888, Image 16

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Persons whcr are not subscribers, receiving a copy of -‘Woman’s Work,” are requested to give it a careful examination and favor me by their patronage. If this notice is marked, it is an evidence that one of our representatives will call on you at an early date, and me hope you will be prepared to give him your subscription. There are few homes, if any, that will not derive benefit from each issue far greater than the small sum of fifty cents, for which “Woman’s Work” is sent one year. If this notice is marked it is evidence that the time for which you have subscribed to “Woman’s Work,” expires with this number. Please remit for renewal at once. Unlike many publishers we do not send the paper until ordered to stop it, but dis continue at expiration of subscription. This is the only business method which is just to both publisher and subscriber. I am sure “ Woman’s Work ” will be a blessing in your home. Don’t let it stop. The number of advertisers who appreci ate the advantages of “ Woman’s Work ” is constantly increasing. We ask our readers to remember that these are friends to the paper, helping to support it, and their claims should be carefully considered when you need articles they handle. We believe they are all good firms to deal with (if found otherwise they will be dropped from our columns) and when you patron ize them you help yourself and “ Woman’s Work.” In writing them please mention the paper. Advertisements will not be allowed to encroach on reading matter. When this point is reached we will add more pages. THE PRIZE DICTIONARY. Our readers will remember we offered a new Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary for the largest list of sidweri]^|^^^ < ’ AO cents who entered the contest names, and several tied by sending that number. So the only chance is to settle the contest by making the same offer for June. Get your neighbors to subscribe and win the prize. It is plain that a sl2 prize will not be hard to get. An hour’s work may make you successful. Remember the per son sending the largest list, with 50 cents for each, during the month of June gets the book. EXPERIENCE IS THE BEST TEACHER. Ypsilanti, Mich., Feb. 8,1888. T. L. Mitchell, Athens, Ga : Dear Sir :—Please continue my adver tisement for six months at least, or until further notice- I like your style. Respectfully, E. H. Greene, Manager. Chicago, 111., Feb. 7th, 1888. Mr. T. L. Mitchell, proprietor Woman's Work: Dear Sir.—We must say we are highly gratified with both the matter and make up of your paper. You are surely bound to make it a success. We do not know any papers in that line that present a bet ter appearance, and contain more helpful and practical articles. Some of our maga zines that have tremendous circulation are full of worthless matter. We shall feel proud to continue our ad vertisement with you. Very sincerely yours, Sanitary Pub. Co. ONE PERSON IN EVERY TOWN Can make money by taking subscrip tions to Woman’s Work.” A pleasant and easy occupation. Send to the pub lisher for terms. Opportunities are very sensitive things. If you slight them on their first visit, they seldom come again. jimfetritets Sulnmti. For the benefit of those who desire to insert short notices of articles for sale or exchange, inquiries and any unobjectiona ble matter, we will print them in this column at the rate of two cents per word each insertion. Cash must be sent with order. Dressmaking—Ladies wishing patterns .cut to actual measure, or instructions in cutting ladies’ or children’s garments can be sure of satisfaction. For sample pattern and instructions in taking measures. Ad dress, Mrs. W. A. Allen, Marinette, Wis. Agents wanted. Blessed he Drudgery A Sermon. 2c., mailed. Charles H. Kerr & Co., Publishers, Chicago. S. C. White Leghorns exclusively. Eggs $1 per 13. John M. Brow-n, Solon. John son Co., lowa. / Claiborne, Games and B. B. Red Game Bantams for sale at reasonable prices, by Miss Annie C. Parks, Adam’s Station, Tenn. Infant’s patterns. Everything baby wears. Twenty patterns, 50 cents. Mas. E. E. Mains, Wakeman, Ohio. Mothers, subscribe through me for Baby hood and receive as a present the Gertrude baby suit pattern, or fifteen silk and satin pieces, suitable for crazy patchwork. Every mother should take Babyhood. Price, $1.50 per year. Subscribe at once. Mrs. L. L. Hornung, Oasis, Utah. The publisher of “Woman’s Work” desires a representative in every town to solicit subscribers. By a new and practical plan, and the very liberal commission allowed, money can be rapidly made. Seed.—Noon glory, white red center, Perennial 20 cents, Mexican all-day-glory, sixteen red blooms on six inch stem 10 cents. Mrs. Maggie Carruth, San Ga briel, Tex. Egg-Keeping Process.—Best in Amer ica. Will keep eggs good and sound tor over 18 months. I have sold spring pre served eggs in winter for highest prices as quick as fresh eggs. References given (as to the merits of this process) if required. Sent with full printed directions for $3; send money order if possible. Address either E. Horley, 677 Clinton Ave., Detroit, Mich., or Vienna, Ont. CONFIDE MORE IN YOUR WIFE. It is a custom too common with men generally, to keep their familes in utter ignorance of the situation of their business. The wife knows nothing, has not even an idea of the amount of her husband’s for tune, whether it is to be counted by thous ands or tens of thousands. What can a woman kept in such ignorance learn ? She depends, as a matter of course, on him, spends all he gives her, with the full confi dence that when that is gone, and she asks for it, he will give her more. If an un married woman works, she may go with a bold unblushing face and demand her wages; but a good wife naturally feels a delicacy about having her expenditures go beyond her husband’s means, but how is she to avoid this, and at the same time indulge in those comforts which she and her family ought to be entitled to, unless her husband gives her some idea of his circumstances? There are generous men, who are too in dulgent, too fearful of letting a wife know the exact state of their finances. This is all wrong. Husband and wife should have a mutual interest; every wife should know something of her husband’s finances, under stand his plans, and aid him, if possible, with her counsels, and then these terrible catastrophes would not so often happen. Many a wife who is plunging her hus band deeper and deeper into debt from ignorance, would, if she knew of his em barrassments, be the first to retrench, the first to save, and with true womanly sym pathy and generosity, help him to reinstate his falling fortunes. Out of suffering comes the serious mind ; out of salvation the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance, faith. MOTHERS’ BOYS. There is a moment in a woman’s life when, however carefully she may have been taught that “pride is sinful,” she can not help feeling proud. This is, when some one alluding to her first off-spring, remarks that it is ‘ an exceedingly fine boy.” A boy ! For the next six months she feels such mingled pity for the moth ers of girls that she can scarcely restrain her feelings. And yet, in nine cases out of ten, she sets to work from the very first to make that boy of hers as like a girl as pos sible—not in appearance, but in character. She puts his body into masculine toggery even before he is fit for it, but she desires to keep his soul in petticoats for the rest of her natural life. Women who become widows early, who have plenty of money and but one pet boy, often contrive to make him a most useless and effeminate creature—the sort of young man who, at twenty-one, will stand before a pretty girl with his head on one side, his hands dangling like rabbits’ paws, and his mouth all a simper, and tell her that he will “ask ma if he may see her home,” and who, having “ asked,” will return to say that “ma thinks I’d better not.” The fact is. boys are never bettered by being made pets of. They should be considered and loved, but it is the ruin of anything mas culine to be laid away in lavender and sheltered from the East winds. The ordi nary woman cannot comprehend this. The boy is so dear to her—so precious, she is continually in fear that harm will come to his mind, his body or his soul. Left to herself, she makes a milk-sop of her son. It is a cruel fact, for she does not mean to do it; she only wishes him to be perfec tion. She does not realize that it is her little boy’s fate to be a man, and that the best she can do for him is to make him one —aye, every inch. She must make up her mind that he will win his way in the world, meet men on even ground, fight life’s battle, aye, and love, without consult ing her. M. D. WEATHER HINT. When you wish to know what the weath er is going to be, go out and select the smallest cloud you see. Keep your eyes upon it, and if it decreases and disappears it shows a state of the air that is sure to be followed by the weather; but if it increas es, take your overcoat with you if going away from home, for falling weather is not far off. The reason is this: when the air is becoming charged with electricity you will see every cloud attracting all lesser ones towards it until it gathers into a shower; and, on the contrary, when the fluid is passing off or diffusing itself, then a large cloud will be seen breaking into pieces and dissolving. VALUABLE BOOKS. Choice of Pursuits; or, What to Do and Why— Describing Seventy-five Trades and Professions, and the Temperaments and Talents required for each. Also, How to Educate on Phrenological Principles— each man for his proper work; together with Portraits and Biographies of many successful Thinkersand Workers. 12mo, extra cloth, 508 pp. $1.75. How to Grow Handsome; or, Hints to ward Physical Perfection, and the Phil osophy of Human Beauty, showing How to Acquire and Retain Bodily Symmetry, Health and Vigor, Secure Long Life, and avoid the Infirmities and Deformities of Age. New Edition, by Dr. Jacques. 1 vol. I2mo, 244 pp. Extra Cloth, SI.OO. Heads and faces: How to Study Them.— One of the most complete books on the study of character from the face overissued. 200 pp. paper, 40 cents. Tokology.— A book for every woman, by Alice B. Stockham, M. D. The author, in sympathy with the needs of her sex, dis cusses at length, with strength and purity, physical questions of great importance. She demonstrates that the ailments, pains, and dangers of pregnancy can be avoided. Plain directions are given for treatment of all troubles of women and children. A complete guide for the wife, mother and daughter, Fully illustrated. Large vol ume, only $2.00. Discount of 10 per cent, on two or more of above Books. Standard Publishing Co., Ypsilanti, Mi«h. OTHER PEOPLE’S AFFAIRS. For my part I care very little about other people’s private affairs. I never want to turn their hearts inside out, know the amount ot their bank account, or peep into their store closets. If they are nice to know, pleasant to talk with, and alto gether friendly and warm-hearted, that pleases me. There are plenty of abstract subjects on which to converse, and it would never occur to me to inquire what their butcher’s bill might be, or if the butcher ever called twice for his little account. I fancy, however, that some people must go about asking such questions as these, for in no other way could they provide them selves with such an amount of statistics as they collect in regard to other people’s affairs and housekeeping. I remember that a lady (?) once called on me. burdened with news as a homeward flying bee is burdened with stolen sweets for honey making. She shut the door, drew down the shades, and begged me not to mention it, for only to me would she confide so ter rible a secret. She was no gossip—not she; she pitied them from her soul; but Senator Bobolink’s family had all their underclothing made of unbleached mus lin, without so much as a row of rick-rack braid upon it. It was such a frightful dis closure that I could do nothing but stare at her and gasp, “Oh!” Andi did not think it worth while to mention the fact that the clothing was all of raw silk in its natural yellow-tint. Mrs. Senator Bobo link having confided to me the fact that she had a bale from China and meant to make that use of it. Another lady—a venerable one —tod- dled several miles one day to see our fam ily, that she might impart the news that the Tomkins’ were so poor they could not afford carpets! The Tomkins’ were among the first who had their floors polished and large rugs laid in the center of the room; but we shook our heads and hoped they would soon recover their lost good fortune, and were equally sympathetic when the visiting spinster of a far-away country place, con fided to us the fact that “them Smiths from New York never had no regular dinner,” for she went and stayed one day and found out. Their dinner hour was at six. The local hour was at twelve, and they always had a light lunch at noon. Apart from these funny mistakes, however, there are so many bits of gossip afloat that I often won der if there is not a Gossip Syndicate where people find out things. It is wonderful what petty stories certain people spend their time in gathering and dispensing. And the pity is that those who listen with suppressed contempt have not the courage to express it. Open the door and bow the gossip out. Nine times out of ten she de serves it, because she is telling a falsehood as well as tattling. M. K. D. EVENINGS AT HOME. It is well for the women of the house hold to remember that the pleasant even ings at home are strong antidotes to the practice of looking for enjoyment abroad, and seeking for pleasure in forbidden places; for relaxation and recreation will be indulged in some how by most men, and happy are they who find in the home circle the diversion they need. A lively game, an interesting book read aloud, or, in musical families, a new song to be practiced, will furnish pastime that will make an evening pass pleasantly. A little forethought during the day, a little pulling of wires that need not appear, will make the whole thing easy; and dif ferent ways and means may be pro vided for making the evening hours pass pleasantly, and a time to be looked forward to with pleasant anticipations. It is a happy thing for us that this is really all we have to concern ourselves about—what to do next.