Show it may be true that the housewife who systematizes her works work finds ample time to teare 11 always providing that she jias has only herself and her husband for whom to keep house but most of us ua do ff not remain long in this ibis ideal state children chiland and come and even ono one child is a bad work blow to system if one ever has haa a small baby to care for she elie is lucky if she gets all her afternoons iree free to devote to the baby I 1 have been a business woman and can br AMY L L claim some success I 1 also believe in by systematizing work but I 1 do not join in con deining den ining the woman who finds housework hard bard when there is even one small child the best laid plans are apt to gang aft agley let us yay say nothing of our broten broken nights rest nor of the upsets that childish illnesses occasion when even the dishwashing gets left to the man f i the ahe family while we turn in to get a few hours sleep the housework get dono done then and it takes time to catch up again but even the ordinary everyday work where there are two or three small chil dren cooking and washing baking and mending mend 1 ing making perhaps all of the small arnall garments and taking a delight in doing it even this will arll hardly 0 give 11 ve us ua our afternoons free his has tho the reader ever tried tobay to buy a hat bat with a small baby in her arms I 1 have for we ne havo have no convenient grandmother let her see what a pleasure it is to go shopping 0 with a child of two or three and see sec how successful successful she will be for my part without children I 1 would prefer the business world bu but I 1 hae made my choice and I 1 am not sorry for it I 1 work a good deal harder than when my hours houis were nine to five with a short day saturday urda yand and sunday free but there are compensations that the childless bous housewife elife lacks I 1 regret I 1 have little time to improve my mind what ti time me I 1 take for reading I 1 often begrudge things will be better by and by and meanwhile ile let rne me find end pleasure in my babies hero here an and d now we have them and nothing else not even the systematizing of our housework is so BO important |