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January, i 899.
For Woman’s Work.
our Helper.
day hurries after another,
And only the dear Lord knows
How heavily the burdens press,
And how steep the pathway grows.
He sees all our trials and struggles,
Temptation and grief He has known,
For He trod the pathway of sorrow
When He came unto His own.
And out of that fiery furnace,
Like gold that has been tried,
He brings a sympathy boundless—
A love that will not be denied.
He stoops to the lowliest toiler,
He lightens the heaviest load,
He sweetens the bitterest sorrow,
|gA nd smooths out the roughest road..
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And the days go hurrying onward,
The same and yet not the same,
For a peace, past understanding,
Is ours since the Saviour came.
Rosalie Fuller Williams.
F* ©©mment. 1
t We Invite pou to Criticise This Issue. |
Dear Editress:—
Several of your cor
respondents have been expressing the de
sire for a return of some of the long-miss
ed friends of our magazine’s young days.
This was so natural that I heartily shared
in their wishes, and it is consequently a
great pleasure to see so many of tne famil
iar names in recent numbers. Mattie
Mclntosh’s re-appearance in your No
vember issue was a pleasant surprise. Bo
rides there were very enjoyable poems
from Rose Heath and Honoria R. P.
Tuomey, who have not been present ex
cept at long intervals. Kate Bringhurst
was with us for the first time in a long
while, and then there was Emma A.
Hicks whom I feared was entirely lost to
us; I read her quaint but sad Quaker sto
ry with peculiar interest, and hope she
will not slay away so long again. Rachel
B. Ray, Maude Meredith and Eliza R.
Parker also added their names and pen
thoughts to the list of surprises, so, alto
gether it was quite a gathering of those
who had been long absent but not forgot
ten. I hope, as an interested reader and
admirer of ‘-many years standing,” that
these will write for you often and that
others of our missing ones will soon return.
There is always a warm welcome in my
mind and heart for the new ones, but these
will never crowd out the old friends.
Comparisons are odious, perhaps, but I
am sure that it will arouse no jealousy for
me to say that among my favorites of your
staff 1 always gave a high place to E. A.
Dyer, Howard Meriwether Lovett and
Kate Carrington. They never failed to
write entertainingly, and there was always
something of practical benefit—something
that we could grasp and utilize for the im
provement of our daily lives—always fa
cilitating the performance of our daily du
ti°s. Sylvia Silverthorne was one of the
best in this line, but she doesn’t seem dis
posed to entertain the old-time ‘ Woman’s
Work band” any more. I wish she wouldl
I hope they are all still enjoying the bless
ings of health and usefulness, but I have
no way of knowing. Changes come so
rapidly and unexpectedly that some of
them magazine friends whom I learned to
admire and love sincerely may have pass
ed over the river. I trust not, for I be
lieve their lives were useful here. Speak
ing of those who have recently come back,
Mattie Mclnto’h’s last article showed her
S' me old characteristic of dealing with ev
tr/thing in a plain, matter-of-fact way.
•‘The Firm of Thayer and Thayer” doubt
less presented conditions that exist in some
homes, for men (and women, too, as to that)
often become thoughtless, even if not self
ish and indifferent when it comes to ques
tions concerning their homefolks and the
rights of their nearest loved ones. That
they are really loved ones is true in most
cases, but as you said in a recent editorial,
it is so easy to forget their feelings and
their rights, thinking only that “they un
derstand the circumstances;” “they know
that our !■ tentions are good, ami there is
no use to bo always talking about them.”
I have never believed in. any strict buti
ness rules among the members of a family
—each one exacting from the others every
possible advantage that could be claimed
in a close transaction for gain. I think
there is greater congeniality and happi
ness where liberality and unselfishness are
made the controlling idea, but of course
under such an ideal plan all must co-oper
ate and there must be no discriminations.
The husband must not expect his wife to
practice all the liberality and self-denial,
giving him the best of everything; nor
must the wife make the grave error of ex
pecting every sacrifice to be on the part of
the husband. There must be mutual ef
fort, mutual concessions, and a delicate
consideration on the part of each for lhe
other, else inequalities and heartaches are
almost sure to result. I believe the teach
ing of your magazine is on the right line,
and will result in good for every home
where it is read.
Sincerely Yours,
A Georgia Housekeeper.
Dear Woman’s Work:—
Your Com
ment page recently contained a reference
to the articles on hygiene and health ap
pearing some time since, and the wish was
expressed that those articles might be con
tinued in your columns from time to time.
In this suggestion I heartily join, for I
found them both entertaining and valua
ble. I believe most of them appearing
since I have been taking your magazine
were written by Howard Meriwether
Lovett, whom I have all the while re
garded as one of your brightest and best
writers. Her name has not appeared for
some months, but I hope soon to see some
thing more from her pen. I think more
of that class of articles and fewer stories
will be approved by all.
Very truly, Miss R. W. W.
Dear Woman s Work:—
• • I heartily
commend the letter of “Aunt Mary” in a
recent issue of our magazine and wish
that all parents might read it and care
fully weigh her suggestions. It seems to
me the questions which should most con
cern our thinkers and writers and our peo
ple in general, receive less attention than
many minor subjects. Wise parentage
and the proper government of the home
are matters that vitally concern the whole
world, but most persons appear to be very
indifferent to them. Men aid women who
are professedly ready to join in every
good work, in every effort to elevate man
kind and advance the best interests of so
ciety, appear to be content to remain in
ignorance of principles which must govern
the mental, moral and physical welfare of
the present and of future generations. It
is supposed to require some intelligence,
instruction and skill for every branch of
human interest except tbat of rearing
children—who must become men and
women and help to control the world—but
when it comes to matters of marriage and
parentage, there are no restrictions, no re
quirements, “np nuthin.” A man who
endangers the public welfare in matters of
WOMAN’S WORK.
business, health, etc., may in some way be
enjoined, deprived of his freedom, or made
amenable to reasonable restrictions. But
just, speak of controlling or restricting him
in the most vital of all public interests,
that of marriage, and we will hear all
sorts of howling against interference with
personal liberty, individual rights, etc.
A citizen who acts peculiarly in business
matters or threatens the peace of society
in some way may be and often is adjudged
insane and incarcerated. But so long as
his eccentricities and his hurtful influ
ences are inflicted onlv on bis own wife
and children, it is his private domain and
there must be no interference. “Personal
liberty” and “individual rights” and “pri
vate domain” are all very well in their
proper places, but isn’t it time we were
considering some of the interests of future
generations, and some of the rights of
helpless children already born to parents
whom we would not trust to raise chick
ens on shares? I sometimes think we are
perhaps in the early portion of the dark
ages rather than in the forefront o’s a grand
civilization. Isn’t it worth while to-dis
cuss our worst diseases and the proper
remedies? Such is the opinion of an hum
ble DvCTor.
Dear Editress:—
I was glad to see in
the D cember number of your excellent
magazine a warning against going in debt
for Christmas presents. I wish that every
man and woman could be made to realize
lhe dangers of debt and could be persuaded
to do without all articles for which they
cannot pay cash. Not only should the
rule apply to holiday or other presents, but
to all the furnishings of a home and the
supplies of a family. It is easy to think:
“I must have this thing; I cannot do with
out that,” and so on; but if they are to be
b >ught on credit, making others wait for
the money, and subjecting the debtor to
many dangers of inability to pay. embar
rassment of suits etc , it is much the wiser
plan to deny ourselves the comforts and
conveniences of having the coveted arti
cles. I believe family expenses and debts
are the cause of more home misery than
any other cause—perhaps of more than
all other causes combined. Everywhere
men are bowed down under a burden of
debts—a burden that should never have
been assumed, for the debts should not
have been contracted. There cannot be
real contentment among honest people who
are living beyond their means, and all are
doing this who buy what they cannot
promptly pay for. I recently heard of a
minister of the gospel, whom I believe to
be a good man, saying that he had not
seen the- time in fifteen years when he
could pay what he owed. This being the
case, 1 believe he has not only brought
great annoyance to himself, but he has no
doubt injured his usefulness with many
persons. He has doubtless indulged in
many comforts and luxuries that are de
nied to more than half the families about
him, so, in the absence ofcash, these things
should have been left unbought. Another
minister of my acquaintance, I am told
made an engagement for a daily supply of
milk; the milk was furnished lor quite a
long while by a family who needed the
returns lor living expenses, but their
money was not forthcoming. This caused
them embarrassment, weakened their con
fidence in the pretensions of the preacher,
and there is no telling how many others
may have suffered disappointment by this
one family getting milk lor which they
could not promptly pay: the tai lure ot
one person to meet an obligation may force
others to wait for amounts due, lor money
is usually passed on and on from one to
another until a small amount will pay a
large sum of debts. A great deal ot the
talk we hear of hard times results solely
from the mistake ot persons living beyond
their means. It is an age ot extrava
gance, and what was once considered the
luxuries of life are now looked upon as
necessities—even by persons of very mod
erate means. This was refer ed to by
Maude Meredith in a recent number ot
your magazine, the case she cited being
that of a widow whose limited means would
support her very comfortably in a plain
way, but who must pay higu rent for a
house with steam heat, gas range, etc. If
this letter is seen by any woman who is
allowing household expenses to run out of
propor’ion to the family income, 1 hope
she will immediately “call a halt." Tne
independence and increased happiness se
cured will far overbalance any self-denial.
Very Sincerely Yours,
Arkansas. Mrs. Rogers.
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