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Show To Mother. Take pity on yourself, dear mother, and do not work too hard. You owe more to your dear ones than well-cooked meals, and rcoms that are kept spot lessly clean at the expense of your health and patience. Rest mere, for hard work and overtaxed nerv s make a naturally loving, patient woman, cross and irritable; the little ones 1o not understand this, and the husband wonders won-ders why wife lose her temper so mach sooner than she did in former days. Let the children give you more help If it is out of the question to hire a good girl, leave back rooms for Edith to sweep when she comes home from school. The exercise will be good for her, and the experience as well. In taking up the household work gradually, she will become familiar with the different details, and lighten your labor very much. Either in a city or country home it is well to require some assistance assis-tance at her hands; if in the city, it will provent her spending too much time on the streets, and if it be in the country, these little duties will nrevent lonesomeness. Tako the children into yonr confidence, confi-dence, tell them that you are tired, and would appreciate their help very much. Gently request them instead of commanding, and unless they are un-usuallythoughtless un-usuallythoughtless and unconcerned they will be loting, considerate com pauionii, as well as dntlful children. ("ALicE."in Woman's Work. |
