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or mistakes thus enacted.
The comparison of different methods, views, and experiences, should
be fruitful of valuable results.
To those entrusted with the care of young lives, the considera
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of thought.
ILnsl off <QaQ<estln®ro§o
1. Among how many, and what occupations is your time divided?
2. Please give a brief and clear record of how one of your average days is
spent.
3. Do you find any daily service or pleasure for yourself or family in the
“mental store”and accomplishments that were yours when you became a matron?
(a) If so, in what way? (b) If not, why not?
4. If you had more leisure at your command (say an hour or two daily)
how would you use it?
It is my pleasure to publish in this issue some of the replies to above ques
tions, though I hope for many more in our next number, and perhaps for several
numbers to come. A month is too short a period in which to expect our subscrib
ers to receive their magazines, read them, and find opportunities to write us
their responses to questions appearing in this department, so it is not my idea to
limit the time in which answers may appear. The average days of most house
wives are too fully occupied to allow much writing, so I am prepared to make
allowances for delays, and also for the hurried and unsatisfactory manner in
which many wives and mothers find it necessary to do work outside the daily rou
tine, whether this work be literary or otherwise: it may be reading, or writing,
or something else that would be found a source of great pleasure and profit under
favorable circumstances, but if it requires time it is necessarily a tax on the aver
age woman, for my idea is that the average woman is kept busy: to any who have
idle hours on their hands I would suggest the adoption of some form of employ
ment which will prove useful—therefore profitable.
’HEN I received the request to
know how I spend my average
days, I was tempted to ignore it,
W
of a feeling of incompetency to
send an interesting reply. In the first
place each day is so unlike every other
one, I can hardly describe an average one;
they are not “averaged” yet, as 1 have
been married only four months, and have
not yet settled in our own home. We
have been keeping bouse in a little cottage
three-quarters of a mi e distant (and
across a river) from our farm. In the sec
ond place, the little things of life—which
perhaps, after all, count more than all else
in summing up one’s hie—cannot well be
told. It is bard to express our greatest
hopes and ambitions, to define the spirit
and thoughts that prompt our every deed.
It is not the amount of cooking or reading
or visiting that we do that sums up our
lives but the spirit and manner that we
carry into each duty or pleasure. So,
when reading the list of commonplace
items that have filled one of my days, I re
joice that into each 1 carry an earnest, hap
py soul.
I arose at 4:30 this morning. The late,
wet spring has put the farmers behind
with ploughing, and when a day conies
that can be used, for farm work, every mo
ment of that day is precious. To-day the
weather, ground, and horses each seemed
impatient to do a full part in preparations
fora crop. So I prepared bieakiast and
got my busband ofi to the farm by 5:45.
The chickens, dishes, and house had been
attended to by 8. 1 then sat down and
wrote some letters I have had on my mind
for several days. At9:301 went to postoffice,
found letter irom a little niece, which by
its tone and merit inspired me to answer
at cnee. Wrote letter and mailed it.
Glanced through daily paper.
For Woman’s Work.
In Defense of r
“That Diarist.’’
fl
AM the woman who wrote “How Her
Days are Spent.” I’ll back up the
diarist of that “day” with some of
tue strenuous ones that happeu to me about
seven times a week, if you say so, but do,
oh, do spare me the ordeal of sending
those “marked copies” to the people who
visit that diarist so ott and so inopportune
ly! lam wise and I would prefer going
to my grave with whole bones.
That “average day” is no uncommon
day to many housekeepers whom 1 know
personally and well: the days of that
diarist are easy days compared with the
days ot many women here in the South. I
defy anyone to gainsay it, for I can put my
finger on many witnesses in a day’s time.
But please do not, anybody, “dare’* me
to do it. Most of the women are born to
that lot, and, knowing no wider outlook,
do not realize what they miss. Others,
not born to it, accept it passively, as one
of the things which cannot now be helped.
Few struggle against it.
Such a life is, of course, only possible in
rural or village communities, and you
strike the keynote of the trouble when you
suggest that women who have spare time
WOMAN’S WORK.
REPLIES.
Prepared dinner, packed it in a big bas
ket, and left at 11:30 with the little boy
who carries my husband’s dinner. I took
with me “The Black Arrow,” by R. L.
Stevenson. Ate, read and rested until 3:00.
By this time all of land that is dry enough
has teen plowed, and a load of oak posts
sent in to a firm in the nearest town. I
jumped on a wagon with my husband and
went to sawmill where wagon was loaded.
The driver went with the wagon to town,
and my husband and 1 returned to our lit
tle cottage which is in course of erection.
It is a mile from the sawmill to our cot
tage, and the path is through woods and
across a stream. We gathered an armful
of white and pink honeysuckle, wild sweet
williams and other wild flowers. Spent an
hour or more at cottage —reading, resting,
suggesting—then with my flowers I re
turned home to feed chickens and get
supper.
During my absence an old lady called,
who had known my mother and wanted to
tell me about her early married life. Sup
per over and everything prepared lor an
other early breaklast, we talk over events
of the day, write a little, have family pray
er and retire at 8:30. M. M. B.
Georgia.
T
ial comradeship of the man of one’s choice,
and bright, promising babies are very sat
isfying to woman’s heart: to read what is
true, beautiful, and vitalizing in thought,
is a perennial joy to one who seeks to find
in daily experiences “the mind’s ever
broadening outlook, the heart’s slow stab
lished calm.” H. L.
should use it profitably—this would pre
clude the idle visits from house to house, of
persons who so seriously encroach upon the
time, leisure, and plans ot their neighbors
who, perhaps, do not visit. It is this hap
hazard mode of visiting “back and forth”
that prevails in the South which, more
than all else, makes woman’s work heavy.
With the untimely visit eliminated, a
housekeeper may always systematize her
duties and have a period for rest, recrea
tion, and self-culture every day. I mean,
she may have a short period: no home
maker who does her duty by her family
and is not a perfect cipher in the commu
nity in which she lives will have more,
whether she has much company or not. A
brief respite each day would suffice to
keep her from a premature grave, or from
looking a withered hag at forty; this the
physical benefit. Mentally, she would
feel some degree of self-respect, and have
a hold on the proud affections, not the
mere loyalty, of her children.
A uniform hour for the exchange of
neighborly visits would be a godsend to
any communitv. Suppose you preach that
up, Madam “What and Why?” B.
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