Our Women and Children
Conducted by Lucille Skaggs Edwards.
ECONOMY AND LOVE
IN THE HOME.
The economic question of the house
hold it is usually supposed, is in the
hands of the woman. This is only
partly true. It is to a greater extent
in the hands of the man, the recog
nized provider.
Any man who by natural authority
makes himself the king in his home,
and who inspires and maintains the
respect and love of the inmates, will
never be made to suffer from their
extravagance. The wife who loves
her husband in the true sense can no
more drag upon his purse strings than
she can inflict upon him physical pain.
The daughter who loves her father
will be the first to check the mother
who, through over interest and pride,
may have momentarily forgotten the
limitations that mark her husband’s
purse.
A man who has control of himself
is pretty apt to control all the mem
bers of his household. It is when he
is discovered throwing wood on other
fires than his own that extravagance
in the home is apt to begin. Most
wives are jealous of the money their
husbands spend that does not in some
way include them.
“With all my worldly goods I thee
endow” is the most important part of
the marriage ceremony with many wo
men, and the part few forget to dwell
upon. Her husband’s absence from
home, which may involve expenditure
of money, when the dinner has been
prepared for him with pride for his
own table, has caused many a woman
to recklessly expend the next day
whatever she could lay her hands upon
in the way of cash. She refreshes
herself by the thought of “getting
even” and when she discovers she has
only accomplished additional loss she
bursts into tears.
Economy is not a pleasant word.
Continuous discussion of deprivations
shuts out the light in a home, and
the little children suffer most from
the darkness.
Painful and ostentatious economy is
never practised in a household where
there is love. Children who love their
parents save instinctively. The little
boy will save his pennies an entire
year to buy his mother, on her birth
day, the simple thing for which she
has expressed a wish. The daughter
will deny herself the particular cos
tume or hat her youth causes her to
inwardly enthuse about when she
thinks of the worried expression she
has sometimes seen settle in the eye
of the father she worships.
All economy should be the outcome
of love! Saving and scrimping out of
any other motive warps character.
“Lay not up fo* yourself treasures
upon earth” should be the motto in
every household. The present is more
important than the future. And the
present splendidly lived, in reason,
never fails to protect the future.—
G. Vere Tyler, in New York American.
AN UNPLEASANT PROCESS.
“What a horrible humiliation!” ex
claimed the Shirt as it lay in the
clothes basket. It belonged to the
evening dress of a very fine gentle
man, and as it was a new shirt it was
passing through a novel experience.
“All these dirty clothes!” sniffed
the Shirt. “And to be crowded in
with common apparel in this way!”
The Shirt did not realize that it also
was soiled, and so was on a level with
the rest.
Then came a horrible plunge into
hot water. Then came a cruel pound
ing and rubbing that almost took the
life out of the Shirt. Then it was put
through a fearful pair of rollers that
nearly finished it. Then it hung out
on a line, and the wind flapped it
insultingly for several hours. Last of
all it was laid on a board and pressed
by an excrutiatingly hot iron. This
was the crowning agony. The Shirt
swooned away!
When it recovered consciousness it
was to find itself clothing its master,
and shining in the very center of a
brilliant company. Vastly pleased, it
began to relate its experiences to its
friends, the Pearl Studs; but they in
terrupted it with a hearty laugh.
“Why, you simpleton!” they ex
claimed. “That was only the process
of getting clean. Did you expect it to
be as easy as getting dirty?”
AN ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERY.
Blotting paper was discovered pure
ly by accident. Some ordinary paper
was being made one day at a mill in
Berkshire, England, when a careless
woman forgot to put in the sizing ma
terial. The whole of the paper made
was regarded as useless. The pro
prietor of the mill desired to write a
note shortly afterward, and he took a
piece of this waste paper, thinking it
was good enough for the purpose. To
his intense annoyance the ink spreak
all over the paper. Suddenly there
flashed over his mind the thought
that this paper would do instead of
sand for drying ink, and he at once
advertised his waste paper as “blot
ting.”
There was such a big demand that
the mill ceased to make ordinary pa
per, and was soon occupied in making
blotting paper only, the use of which
soon spread to all countries.—Apples
of Gold.
REST.
I am weary, weary weary, of the city
dim and dreary—
Of its constant noise and shatter
night and day;
And I long for marsh and meadow,
stream and rapid river,
Where the timid woodland creatures
romp and play.
There’s a verdant hanging vine, where
the tender tendrills twine,
Concealing in its shadow a wee nest;
And the modest mother there, with
solicitude and care,
Keeps warm her future hopes be
neath her breast.
I would watch the hustling bee, when
she seeks her hollow tree,
And deposits there the labor of her
hours!
What joy in dim retreats, to feast on
stolen swets,
And rob the robber of the flowers!
I am weary, weary, weary, of the city
dull and dreary;
Of its constant roar and rattle night
and day;
And I long for field and forest, ghostly
glades and grassy uplands,
Where the wild things in their free
dom romp and play.
—H. C. January.
A HUMBLE TRIBUTE TO
ABRAM W. PARKER
Omaha, Neb., March 20, 1916.
Editor Monitor:—In your last issue
I read with deep regret of the death
of Abram W. Parker, of Omaha. It
was my pleasure to have known the
deceased well and intimately for more
than a third of a century. During all
that time I never knew a man in whom
I had a greater amount of confidence,
as he was the soul of honor, possessed
of all the noble traits that go to make
a good, honored and useful citizen.
You were correct in stating that he
was the first colored man in Omaha
to receive and enjoy a public office; I
am proud to say that I was the man
who secured for him this appointment,
I then being a member of the Omaha
City Council, made the request to Ma
yor Cushing for hi? appointment and
voted for his confirmation by the
Council. I never had occasion to re
gret my selection of him, as he made
an excellent public official. I extend
to his bereaved wife and family my
heartfelt sympathy in the loss of such
a good husband and father.
ED. F. MOREARTY.
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