Show s W j I 1 MOTHER T TOO 0 1 E E D S A 11 11 4 i VACATION SOMETIMES I 1 one ot of our exchanges very sensibly remarks that ot of all tile the people in the household mother is the one who gets no two weeks off with pay vacation in the summer she Is also tho the one who never gets her saturday afternoons off neither does she work on an eight hour per day schedule and sunday when father sits around in ins his lounging clothes and house slippers mother gets breah breakfast fast washes tile the dishes gets tho the noon meal washes the dishes gets tile the evening meal washes the dishes ani and does a score and more of other house household hol tasks that always seem to tall fall to mothers lot I 1 so hy not a vacation tor for mother does mother complain because she have a vacation like the rest of 0 the family not but that is all the greater reason why she should get the vacation there are ara several ways of giving her this vacation one way is to tell her that no matter whether she wants to or not she is to go back bach to see the home folks for a couple ot of weeks week and while she is away she is a not to worry about how the housework is going or whether the gas bill Is paid on the first of the month then a way is to in upon her going down town one evening each week to the theatre or insist upon her eating an occa I 1 i atonal meal down to the club or at the restaurant with the family I 1 where she wont have to be worrying about the housework and there are scores of 0 other ways of get ting for mother that vacation which she so justly earns but which she will not receive unless the rest of the family make her take it I 1 and daughter might give a little 1 aid in this vacation tor for mother propaganda pa also As tar far as we can discover there is no federal law state law or city ordinance which h makes it a criminal offense for or an eighteen year old daughter to wash the dishes twice a day and thus t hu s take a little routine work away from mothers hands how about that vacation for mo ther I 1 0 0 0 man alan is naturally a home loving animal in tact fact most animals are home loving and when a man asks a woman to share his life it is usually taken as a gentle hint that he wants her to make him a home and take a sort of general oversight ol of his affairs and a special oversight of himself ile he likes to know that she does things for him just for the reason that she loves him and is in te tere rested eted in him and his well being I 1 lie he loves his home more it if there is some impress of her personality upon lt it he likes best the meal she prepares I 1 for him of course he says very little perhaps nothing ol of all this being a man A true lady Is as a lady washing her dinner dishes preparing the vegetables lor for dinner cleaning lamps and scrubbing floors as when she is bending over her embroidery frame or easel in the pleasant sitting bitting room it I 1 she bhe la is so fortunate as to possess a servant she will vill use refined language and as gentle a voice in speaking to her as aa she uses ln in the reception room entertaining the most cultured among her friends 41 0 the main thing with children is to havo have them well started with good principles which they will carry through life obedience truth un nn sellIs hwesi purity are essentials and these can all be lovingly cultivated and wit wil nourish flourish in the right home atmosphere mo sphere 0 0 0 I 1 tile the worst tragedies are not enacted on oil the stage but in home the tha divorce court indicates that poverty tragedies in the little street back bach ot of us where some actors suffer nobly rather than beg tragedies in the big house on the avenue gilded prison houses for women infernos for men chambers of horrors tor for cli children ildren breaking hearts withering hopes maddening bra brains in S the crowd goes screaming by no all the tragedy is not back in the little street but when poverty comes in the door doory love fly out the window no weve seen to many lovers in overalls and sweethearts in gingham aprons to believe that when we write a book beoh ot of tables fables the first one will begin once upon a time there was a house of poverty but when the wolf came to tho the door he turned away for he heard t them m laughing and singing home does not consist in things but of hearts A woman in a 9 magnificent palace in nebraska said to us the happiest days of my life were spent in a sod house ten miles out yonder on the pral prairie riv learn to laugn laugh A good laugh is better than medicine learn how to tell a story A well told story is a I 1 welcome sunbeam in a sick room the world is too busy to care for your ills and sorro g learn to keep your own troubles to yourself learn to stop croaking it if you cannot see any good in the world keep the bad to yourself learn to hide your pains and aches under pleasant smiles no one cares whether you have the earache headache or rheumatism dont cry tears do well enough in novels but are out of place in real life learn to meet your friends with a smile A good humored man or woman is always welcome but tile the dyspeptic tic is not wanted anywhere and is is a nuisance as well above all give pleasure you will pass through this world but once any thing therefore that you can show to any human being you had better do now do not deter defer or neglect it tor for you will not pass this way again 0 0 0 discouragements Discourage ments ane anc gloominess are things to be avoided like tile the pestilence cheerfulness and merriment are qualities to cultivate before them annoyances will disappear like dew before the sun A happy disposition ha has a fortune in itself |