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A Dry Nights Sleep
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Be Courteous by Mrs. M.H. Maxwell

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A DOMESTIC PROBLEM
about it, and suggest, and guess, and throw light with all our might?
almost infinite number of those parts, and of the time, skill, and
and suited both to the weather and the occasion; doing for herself
you "take a cloth," and go over every inch of accessible surface,
gittin' past carryin' her mind inter her work. Wal, I remember when I
scarcely to be found. This point, namely, the prevailing invalidism of
is, but the ways and means by which she is to accomplish it. Let us
them. In fact, a child's nature is a piece of delicate, complex
"Alas! there is hardly a day that I do not feel my ignorance on all
sake of knowing how to bring up my children, and how to keep them in
knowledge. And we must remember here, that the advantages derived from
display of vestments and music; and, if the Ritualists can pervert the
that will elevate and refine. Give her the highest, broadest, truest
said he couldn't afford it, and the peddler went off. I couldn't get
Italy, than to have taken care of those "two hundred criminals,"
the town and an ocean of family tattle. He finds himself shut up for
fill in every chink and crevice of leisure time with sewing. "Look,"
first in importance. It is easy to see what they consider essentials,
For Me To Make Her Clothes." You Observe Her Submissive, Law Abiding
hurry, and that constant hurry is a constant strain upon her in every
works on after she is completely used up? What is the substance, the
there by overwork and anxiety."
and by never setting her foot outside the door, she might follow this
state of public sentiment is the fact that in none of these legends is
to see that the very inferiority of what are called the inferior
Condition, Pre Natal And Post Natal, Of The Mothers. So That The
some single word where we can condense into one monosyllable the
requires not only general culture, but special preparation, a
be told the names of all the streets in Chicago, the names of the
duty of your lives. There is, then, nothing in the whole vast range of
physician.
sisters, aunts, nurses, and governesses, that they should study thrift
majority of mothers do not watch for such traits. It seldom occurs to
the intellectual and moral training of children can be given to a
The "nursery Girl" Topic Might Come Up Again, And Be Considered In Its
Outlaw," "The Night Hawks, containing Midnight Robbery, Plots dark and
instruct, so to enlighten young women, that when the time for action
the following questions are taken from the "Examination Papers" of a
their lives or their deaths, and their moral welfare or ruin, not one
solution of our problem; still, as Mr. Frothingham said in a recent
This is the obvious inference, and one which children would naturally
seasons their situation is pitiable, not to say dangerous. A great
well to work a little on the surface for the sake of immediate
enlightenment; and to effect the exchange we shall have to begin at
burden of responsibility. As things are now, the woman who marries a
deceased, came to her death (so her neighbors said) by hard work.
Without Help. It Is Truly A Getting Along, Not A Living. Sometimes,
less importance is attached to the nature of her occupations and
one, for instance, which comes to us in the newspapers, as "criminal
in their arms, and overlooking their childish sports? A man may take a
keep her with us?" The truth is, that heretofore the wrong things have
prematurely because God wills it, not because we transgress his laws.
together?
persons. It is not suffering to know that a large number of
for that mission. What say you, friends? Shall our women receive
not only in low places, but in high places; in exceedingly high
report comes to me, in which it is shown by facts and figures how our
early course. Such is the magnitude, the transcendence, of this
mental culture, while the husbands have grown away from them; and it
after. It is hard for a woman who is hungry for reading to see how
Three private letters, coming one from the South, one from the East,




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