Our Women and Children
Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards.
HOME-MAKING.
Home-making or housekeeping, of
all careers, seems to hold the fewest
attractions to many women. Nor is
the reason far to seek. Many women
seem never to realize the real office
of home-making. Its function is a
spiritual one, while to the average
woman, I fear, it is the monotonous
task of cooking and cleaning over and
over again. This is one of those per
versions which are the paradoxes of
life. There are people to whom the
glory, the beauty of these autumn
days, mean colds, neuralgia and rheu
matism; who count the stars as
weather vanes, and measure happi
ness in dollars and cents. To such
minds housekeeping is only petty,
soul-wasting drudgery—a never-end
ing fight with food and dirt.
The drudgery of the home life is
the incident, not the object of home
making. A real home is a way of
thinking, a system of human educa
tion and uplift. It is a force which
guided by deft hands and molded by
trained minds lays the foundations of
human living.
Many mothers think that with a
limited education, with a knowledge
of cooking, cleaning and sewing, a
girl is fitted for home-making. Don’t
let the girls lose life’s purpose. Give
them every opportunity, every advan
tage, every accomplishment you can.
The higher and broader her education
the more efficient housekeeper she
will make.
Far worse than the woman who fails
to see the purpose ot home-making
is the one who lives for self. Women
who marry that some man may give
them a home; who love, not to bring
joy to other hearts, but that they may
be loved themselves; mingle in so
ciety, club and church, not to bring
pleasure and uplift to others, but to
have pleasures for themselves, who
live never for what they may give,
but ever for what they may get.
To broaden, beautify and uplift the
lives of others is the mission of every
woman. To interpret life and the
world to the group about you, until
they in turn can give back to the
world a soul, and a purpose—this is
the function of the home-maker and
nothing less.
To so vast a spiritual vocation as
home-making there can be no stereo
typed method. Each home must meet
its own special needs. It must stand
apart, an individual, reflecting the
genius and tact of the womanly heart
who guides it, and it must be remem
bered that its drudgery, its eating,
sleeping and cleaning, but serve its
thinking, its growing, its dreaming.
L. S. E.
THE KINGLIEST WARRIOR.
By JOAQUIN MILLER.
The bravest battle that ever was
fought—
Shall I tell you where and when?
On (.he maps of the world you will
find it not—
’Twas fought by the mothers of
men.
Nay, not with cannon or battle shouts,
W'ith a sword or noble pen;
Nay, not with eloquent words or
thoughts
From mouths of wonderful men.
But deep in a walled-up woman’s
heart— j
A woman that would not yield,
But silently, bravely bore her part—
Lo, there’s the battlefield!
No marshalling troops, no bivouac
song,
No banner to gleam and wave;
i But, oh, these battles, they last so
long—
From babyhood to the grave,
Y“t, faithful still as a bridge of stars,
She fights in her walled-up town;
Fights on and on in the endless war—
Then, silent, unseen, goes down.
Oh, spotless woman in a world of
shame,
With splendid and silent scorn.
Go back to God as white as you
came—
The Kingliest Warrior born.
FAVORITE POEM—JUST KEEP ON.
Just keep on a livin’
And keep on a givin’
An’ keep on a tryin’ to smile;
Just keep on a Bingin’,
A-trustin’ an’ a-clingin’
To the promise of an afterwhile.
For the sun comes up
An’ the sun goes down,
An’ the morning follows night;
There’s a place to rest.
Like a mother’s hreast,
And a time when things come right.
Just keep on believin’
An’ a-hidin’ all your grievin’
An’ keep on tryin’ to smile;
Just keep on a-prayin’,
A-lovin’ an’ a-sayin’
The things we love to hear;
For the tide comes in
An' the tide goes out,
An’ the dark will all turn bright;
There’s a rest from the load,
An’ an end to the road,
An’ a place where things come right.
—Clifton Abbott.
Her Happy Task.
Several members of a woman’s club
were chatting with a little daughter
of their hostess.
"I suppose you are a great help to
your mamma?” said one.
"Oh, yes," replied the little miss,
“and so is Ethel; but today it is my
turn to count the spoons after the :
company is gone.”—Chicago Herald.
FRANCE TO USE 700,000
BLACK WARRIORS
Paris.—Deputy Pierre Masse has
prepared for introduction in the cham
ber a bill providing that natives of j
French colonies and protectorates be
recruited for service in the army.
It is estimated that this step would
add 700,000 men to the forces in the
field by next spring.
The excellent service given by the
large number of natives now at the
front has resulted in the proposal that
they be used on a much larger scale.
Leading French statesmen have
had under consideration for some
time the vast recruiting field which
lies open to France in the colonies,
especially in China and Equatorial
Africa. The main features of the bill
which M. Masse will present to par
liament when it reassembles were
proposed by General Mangin, who has
a distinguished record of service in
Morocco and the Sudan.
If the plan is adopted the new army
of Colonials will be composed largely
of colored troops.
Mrs. L. M. Bentley Webster, 1702
North Twenty-sixth street, gave a
birthday party in honor of her daugn
ter. Aline, Friday evening, October 8.
The many young people had a most
enjoyable time.
Mrs. Belle Butler and Mrs. W. H.
Lacey, who have been the guests of
Mrs. T. P. Mahammitt, left Thursday
for Grand Rapids, Mich. Mrs. Lacey
will close her home in Grand Rapids
and return to Omaha to rejoin her
husband, who is at present the guest
of Mr. Mahammitt and who has de
cided to locate in our city.
Mrs. T. P. Mahammitt entertained
at a card party Tuesday night in hon
or of Miss Mattie Banks, guest of her
sister, Mrs. H. J. Pinkett. Miss Banks
left Thursday nighl for Jacksonville,
111., on her way to Nashville, Tenn.
Twenty-four guests were present. Tna
first prize was won by Miss Banks
and the booby prize was captured by
Miss Frances Shaw.
W. C. Handy, the Negro composer
of the celebrated “Memphis Blues,”
has recently put on the market the
“Hesitation Blues,” which bids fair
to outrival his former work. Handy
is leader of a band in Memphis, Tenn.
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Autumn
Signs
Browning and falling
leaves again call our at
tention to the promise
that summer and win
ter shall not cease.
Prudent people pre
pare. Are you ready
with your autumn
dress? If not, why
not?
We can help you.
Thomas
Kilpatrick & Co.
MATTHEWS BOOK STORE
Stationers and Engravers
Have moved to their new location
1620 Harney St., State Bank Bldg.
Where larger facilities enable them
to give you better service
We recommend
The State Furniture Co.
Corner 14th and Dodge Sts.
as the most reliable, accommodat
ing and economical furniture store
to buy from.
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