1895 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
335 
the 40-yard roll is taken. Of course, 
there are much cheaper mattings, Init 
these are usually lacking in two essen¬ 
tials of good matting : first, it should 
be very closely woven, else all the dirt 
will sift through where the broom can¬ 
not reach it ; second, it should be tough, 
not brittle, in order to wear well. 
_ N. Y. C. 
TO KEEP HOME SWEET. 
O N page 248, Mrs. W. II. P. states a 
question which could be discussed 
with profit in the home department: “Is 
it better, more healthful, morally and 
physically, for the women to stay closely 
at home ?” Hut I am unable to under¬ 
stand why she thinks the opinions of the 
farmers to be the thing desired. As a 
woman, she has stated very well in the 
paragraph following the question, what 
the main results will be to the stay-at- 
home. 
Having passed through the experience 
of being much alone, I have learned the 
disadvantages and the blessings of such 
discipline, and wish to speak more espe¬ 
cially of the latter as I learned a lesson 
which I, in common with many other 
women, very much needed. 
Mrs. W. H. P. says that she used to 
censure women who complained of their 
families to outsiders, and her sentiments 
in this regard are mine exactly. And it 
was in the struggle to live up to this 
ideal of womanly fidelity, that I found 
it a blessing to have no neighbors until 
I had learned enough self-control to 
keep my troubles to myself, and to be¬ 
lieve firmly “that all things work to¬ 
gether for good to them that love God.” 
We women are so prone to moods, and 
so blind when enveloped in them, that 
we forget that all the rest of the world 
is outside of our mood, and the little 
black cloud hangs only around ourselves. 
A sensitive nature is very likely to re¬ 
member and brood over the quick, angry 
word long after the speaker has for¬ 
gotten it. The ill-feeling that caused 
the unkind word has passed away ; yet 
the wound is being nursed and magni¬ 
fied, and the little breach grows wider. 
The sympathetic, confidential friend 
comes in just at the time the aching 
heart feels its burden too heavy to bear, 
and the little quarrel is told to a third 
person. That is not the way to mend 
home troubles. The sympathy is sweet, 
and the burden is lightened, seemingly ; 
but it often happens that real trouble 
begins just where confidence is given to 
an outsider. 
Often during the unhappiness caused 
by the common grievances of life, in 
loneliness I longed for the friend in 
whose presence my tongue would be 
loose, my troubles be told. As often I 
realized after the little storm had blown 
over, what a blessing it was that I had 
been alone, and that home, troubles had 
been settled by those most concerned. 
When two people take each other with 
the vow “for better, for worse, until 
death do us part,” they make a con¬ 
tract which is violated when either one 
betrays the other’s shortcomings to a 
third person. When a wife discusses 
her husband’s faults with any one but 
himself, she is beginning to undermine 
the foundation of her happiness. Cir¬ 
cumstances will decide how soon the 
destruction will be accomplished. 
So it rests with each woman, as to 
whether staying at home or going 
abroad is best for her and hers. If she 
can go among her friends without carry¬ 
ing her troubles on the tip of her tongue, 
visiting will be beneficial. It will help 
to clear the atmosphere of “blues,” and 
re-establish a wholesome view of life, 
thus changing some of the mountains to 
mere molehills. G. H. 
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If I had known in the morning, 
How wearily all the day 
The words unkind would trouble my mind 
That I said when you went away; 
I had been more careful, darling, 
Nor given you needless pain; 
But—we vex our own with look and tone 
We might never take back again. 
—Margaret E. Songster. 
-New Yokk World : “ Few have suf¬ 
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when to keep still.” 
... .Elizabeth Cady Stanton: “Think of 
an American woman refusing to vote, 
with all the wrongs of society waiting to 
be righted!” 
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the accident of birth, will be made by 
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