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Show the startling Tact that the well-beinsOf. j, a mighty nation is menaced by the " predominance of celibacy,, says Cyrus ! C. Adams in Ainslee'a. More than half the men and half the women of France are unmarried. The foreign immigration into France is today greater than the natural increase of its own people. FOR WOMEN AN1HQEE" ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR MAIDS AND MATRONS. Wklng Him Up The Domestic Man Passing Ideal A Wholesome Realiwi-I Realiwi-I tlon of Personal Shortcomings Kot of the Modes Cooking Lessons. THE DOMESTIC MAN. Provincial society invariably sets great store by the domestic man, he being regarded as the ideal husband and father. Pressed to define the special virtues of their paragon, his admirers usually find nothing more to ay in his behalf than that he is not dissipated; observation of the domestic man also fails to discover that he is any other in the majority of instances than a negative quantity. Hisx own ease and comfort are what engage his attention, he, as bread winner, being conceded the lion's share of whatever there is to be had in the home of quiet, or rest, or convenience, or undisturbed un-disturbed enjoyment of such mild diversion di-version as reading the evening paper. The usual variety of domestic man concerns himself no more with contributing con-tributing to the entertainment of the home than if he were a stranger. To be sure, at intervals he accompanies his wife to church sociables or goes along with her somewhat unwillingly to call upon acquaintances, but he at no time feels it incumbent upon him 'to become the instigator and prime executive of amusements in the home; nor do the exertions of domesticlife appeal to him as a duty he should Share, in the evening with his wife and the other members of the family. His position, which is acquiesced in by the members of the household, is that his efforts at breadwinhing outside earn for him exemptions from the labors and self-denials of the home. He is, therefore, as a rule, merely a negative I quantity, unless he happens to be a person of irascibility, when, to be sure, he is a positive nuisance. It i3 interesting to note how in modern mod-ern progressive communities the tendency ten-dency is to persuade men against too exclusive domesticity. Outside of social so-cial clubs, which have existed for a long time, there are new civic associations, asso-ciations, university extens'on lectures, people's clubs and institutes, and the ever-recurring entertainments and fixed fix-ed recreations offered by some of the most progressive of the modern churches. The effort in all these is to bring the individual man in to proper common benefit; to stimulate him to an all around and continuous development develop-ment and to make him resourceful in order that he shall not only be less the victim of outside relations and conditions, but also that he may better serve the community. The dull respectability re-spectability and the snug self-satisfaction of the typical domestic man is, under the stimulus of intelligently directed training through the agencies cited, giving way to a wholesome realization reali-zation of personal shortcomings and an appreciation of world interests. |