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The Commoner
APKIL, 1915
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Mother's Sunday
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One of the best stories told by
"Aunt Jane of Kentucky" is of how a
farmer's wife rebelled against cook
ing a Sunday dinner for a preacher.
"I got up early," says the farmer's
wife,"and dressed the children and fed
my chickens and strained the milk
and washed up the milk things and
got breakfast and washed the dishes
and cleaned up the house and gath
ered the vegetables for dinner and
washed the children's hands and
faces and put their Sunday clothes
on 'em, and jest as I was startin' to
get myself ready for church," says
she, "I happened to think that I
hadn't skimmed the milk for the
next day's churnin.' So I went down
to the springhouse and did the skim
min,' and jest as I picked up the
cream jar to put it on the shelf my
foot slipped," says she, "and down I
came and skinned my elbow on the
rock step, and broke the jar all to
smash, and spilled the cream all, ovei
creation. However," says she, "I
picked up the pieces and washed up
the muss, and then I went to the
house to git myself ready for church,
and I heard Sam hollerin' for me to
come and sew a button on his shirt.
The children had been playin' with
my work basket and I couldn't find
a needle, and," to make a very Jong
story snore, sue ran me neeuie into
her finger, and when she was dressed
the children were dirty from playing
in the mud and she had to dress them
again. Then she rubbed her own dress
against the black grease of the wagon
hub.
No wonder that, as -she says: "The
nearer we got to the church the mad
der I was."
No wonder that she refused to join
in singing the hymn:
"Welcome, Sweet Day of Rest."
No wonder that, in telling of it af
terwards, she said:
"I ain't seen any 'day of rest since
the day I married Sam, and I don't
expect to see any till the day I die;
and if Parson Page wants that hymn
CAREFUL DOCTOR
Prescribed Change of Food Instead ol
Drugs
It takes considerable courage for a
doctor to deliberately prescribe only
food for" a despairing patient, instead
of resorting to the usual list of medi
cines. Some truly scientific physicians
recognize and treat conditions as they
are and should be treated. Here's
an instance:
"Four years ago I was taken with
r severe gastritis and nothing would
' stay on my stomach, so that I was on
the verge of starvation.
"I heard of a doctor who had a
summer cottage near me a special
ist from N. Y. and, as a last hope,
I sent for him.
"After he examined me care
fully he advised me to try a small
quantity of Grape-Nuts at first, then
as my stomach became stronger, to
eat more.
"I kept at it and gradually began
to have color in my face, memory be
came clear, where before everything
seemed blank. My limbs got
stronger and I could walk. So I
steadily recovered.
"Now after a year on Grape-Nuts
I weigh 153 lbs. My people were
surprised at the way I grew fleshy and
strong on this food."
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich. Read, "The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Rea
son." Ever read the above letter? A new
one appears from time to time. They
are genuine, true and full of human
interest.
sung I'll lot him get up a choir of
old maids and old bachelors, for
they're the only people that ever see
any rest Sunday or any other day."
No wonder that, when Sam took
the preacher homo with him to din
ner that day she rebelled against
cooking a big meal and gave them
"leftover cold'vittles."
But Parson Page's heart was rinht
and ho said:
"I'd rather eat a cold dinner any
time than have a woman tollin' over
a hot stove for mo."
And then she, just like a woman,
cooked him a "whaling big supper."
There is a lesson in that story for
every husband of a toil-worn wife.
As Aunt Jane says in another of
her charming stories:
"The discouragin' thing about wo
man's work is that there's no end to
it, and no day of rest. If a woman
was to see all the dishes that she had
to wash before she died piled up be
fore her in one pile, she'd lie down
and die right then and there. When
J'm dead and gone there ain't nobody
goin' to think of the floors I've swept,
and the tables I've scrubbed, and the
old clothes I've patched, and the
stockin's I've darned. That'll all be
forgotten when I'm gone."
But the most discouraging thing
to a woman is that her work is for
gotten while she is living and doing
it, in the majority of cases.
And the poor, tired woman is ex
pected to do more work on Sunday
than any other day in the week, and
go to church to boot and sing:
"Sweet Day of Rest."
"O, Land of Rest, for Thee I
Sigh," would voice her feelings bet
ter. , ,
To the husband who has been let
ting his wife work as hard on Sunday
as on any week day, the following old
time verses of Charles Mackay are
respectfully, recommended on this
first Sabbath day of the early spring:
The morning of our rest has como,
The sun is shining clear;
I see it on the steeple top;
Put on your shawl, my dear,
And let us leave the smoky town,
The dense and stagnant lane,
And take tour children by the hand
To see the fields again.
I've pined for air the. livelong week;
For the smell of the new mown
hay;
For a pleasant, quiet country walk,
On a sunny Sabbath day.
Put on your shawl and let us go
For one day let us think
Of something else than daily care,
Of toil, and meat, and drink;
For one day let the children sport
And feel their limbs their own;
For one day let us quite forget
The grief that we have known
Let us forget that we are poor;
And basking in the ray,
Thank God that we can still enjoy
A sunny Sabbath day.
Kansas City Star.
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WOMEN VOTERS FIGHT EASY
DIVORCE BELLS
Women voters have thrown their
nolitical nower against "six months'
divorce," in two states within the last
few weeks. They protested in Ne
vada to men whom they had? no
nirG in electing, and they may have
lost the result is not yet certain.
They protested in Wyoming to men
and a woman whom they helped to
elect, and they won a clear-cut vic
tory. AHhniicrh the votes of the Nevada
legislature on the "easy divorce" bill
have been heralded in tne press nom-
ing has been said of the little drama
that has been going on in Wyoming,
the oldest suffrage state in the coun-
try.
A few weeks ago an apparently in
nocent bill was introduced In the
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sand Estey Pianos in the homes of well
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all parts of the world testify to their true
merit
ESTEY PIANO CO.
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lower branch 6f the Wyoming legis
lature as House Bill No. 2 60. The bill
was only three and one-half lines
long, but it carried with it the dang
erous feature of "easy divorce."
Someone had evidently seen the pos
sibilities of making Wyoming the
Mecca of the discontented eastern
rich who want lenient divorce laws.
The bill reduced the twelve months
requirement for citizenship and made
it possible for one to reside in the
state but six months and obtain a di
vorce. It was such a law as made
Reno notorious several years ago.
But the bill did not escape the no
tice of the women of the state. Wo
men have been voting in Wyoming
for forty-six years. Throughout the
state the women's clubs agitated for
the defeat of the bill. They drew up
a petition and sent it to the woman
who is serving as representative at
the capitol, Mrs. Morha A. Wood.
Mrs. Wood understood how the wo
men of the state felt about it, when
they asked her to use all her influence
against the passage of the bill.
Representative Wood is modest
and retiring in her general dcmeauwi ,
but is forceful and effective when the
occasion demands. She got up on the
floor of the house and made a force
ful and urgent address. She recom
mended that the measure be indefin
itely postponed; and on her presen
tation the members of the house voted
to kill the bill by a unanimous vote.
Meanwhile in Nevada the new wo
men voters sent delegations up to
Carson City protesting against the
proposed restoration of the six
months' divorce law. They had had
no chance to vote for the men who
were sitting in the state house, but
they made their voices heard. The
bill, which had passed the house with
a rush, was held up in the senate,
and an reported in the Wo
man's Journal, was defeated. But the
forces that were behind It proved too
strong. A few days later the bill
was reconsidered and finally passed
by the narrow majority of 12 to 10.
It is not yet certain whether Gov
ernor Boyle will veto the bill or not.
There are two outstanding facts
about the Nevada divorce bill. In
the first place, women had had noth
ing to do about the election of the
legislators; suffrage had not been
granted in time. In the second place,
the men who were in control of the
leglsfature were the men who fought
the passage of the suffrage amend
ment so bitterly in -Nevada last fall.
Behind the legislature's action was
George Wingfleld, Nevada's only
millionaire.
While the anti-suffragists of Ne
vada have been working day and
night for the divorce bill, eastern
anti-suffragists are now pointing to
the action of their friends as the bad
results of equal suffrage in Nevada
which they predicted. The Woman'
Journal and Suffrage News.
NEUTRALITY
Crawford I understand that hit
matrimonial difficulties have bees
settled.
Grabshaw Yes; wife's relative
have, agreed to maintain strict neutralityLife.
You can earn a first class, np-to
date vacuum sweeper for yourself.
For full particulars' how to do it,
write Tho Commoner, Lincoln, Neb
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