Wmimn’s Work. 
CONDUCTED BY EMILY LOUISE TAPLIN. 
CHAT BY THE WAY. 
Some of our prominent physicians, writing 
about the many nervous ailments now afflict¬ 
ing women, say that one cure for such 
disease is the vigorous use of a broom! So, 
many women in easy circumstances who are 
not obliged to do their own house-work, 
have really no'exercise, as they will not take 
it in any other form. Really, it seems as if 
one-lmlf of the women are suffering for want 
of something to do, while the other half are 
equally afflicted from doing too much. And 
it seems we can’t equalize matters, without 
turning this poor old world upside down. 
* * * 
There is no doubt whatever that, taken on 
the whole, women who do a certain amount 
of housework are healthier than those in mod¬ 
erate circumstances who are able to keep 
help. Rich women take exercise as a matter 
of fashion, even when otherwise they might 
not do so, but well-to-do people without pre¬ 
tensions to fashion, are apt to ignore the 
activity whichjmust bring health. There is 
much virtue in a broom, despite dust and 
accompanying disagreeables. And the daily 
round of household tasks has much to do with 
both mental and bodily health, though it must 
never be regarded as a substitute entirely for 
exercise in the open air. 
* * * 
Every mother has her own ideas as to how 
to bring up her babies aright, and it is a mat¬ 
ter on which few agree. But we often think 
that some mothers make a mistake in not 
treating their little ones as if they were rea¬ 
soning creatures. Notice how pleased tiny 
little tots are when given some responsibility; 
as soon as they begin to toddle if taught 
aright, they like to help mother by picking 
up or carrying some trifle for her, or doing 
any similar act. Then is the time to begin 
training them to be real helpers. Of course, 
t oftens seems a real bother, for one may do 
things quicker without this hindering assist¬ 
ance. But it is a part of the child’s education. 
Similarly, babyhood is none too early to begin 
teaching politeness,and the proper way is to bo 
as polite to the baby as to any one else. People 
sometimes think that a child does not feel dis¬ 
courtesy—we hold a contrary opinion. Some 
little ; slights that were not meant as such, 
offered in our extreme childhood, are remem¬ 
bered to this day, and all sensitive children 
suffer in the same way. 
* * * 
How imitative children are, too. We re¬ 
member a little playmate arranging our game 
thus; “ Now you be the little girl, and go out 
to play—when I tell you to come in, you say 
you won’t, and then I’ll take my slipper off, 
and spank you, like my mamma does.” 
Whenever the mother is impatient or sharp of 
reproof, she will And her own scolding tones 
reproduced by her little ones. Certainly, all 
children cannot be managed alike. Though 
anything like force is to be avoided, there are 
times wnen nothing less than a whipping 
seems of any use. But generally we find that 
the most thoroughly corrected children are 
the most unruly. If only the children are 
taught to know that mother’s word can al¬ 
ways bo depended upon; that mother’s reason 
is always a good one, there will be little 
trouble in management. But it must be hard 
to be wise and thoughtful at all times—harder 
still, to be always good-tempered. One dear 
little woman wrote us recently, with her six 
little ones all suffering from whooping cough 
at once. Not a very easy task to be a bright 
house-mother under these circumstances. 
HOT WEATHER HINTS. 
The other day I went into the village 
store, where I was waited on by a tired, wan 
mother with a baby in her arms, and another 
clinging to her dress. Both children were 
fretting and wailing in a pitiable manner. 
I inquired if they were ill, and was told that 
it was only the hot weather which made them 
peevish. A closer examination proved that 
both of these little mites of humanity were 
suffering with an aggravated case of prickly 
heat. I pointed it out to the woman and 
asked her what she did for it. “ Nothing, ” 
she replied in the most apathetic manue'r. 
I recommended the use of a little common 
salt in the bath, or of a little baking soda, 
but felt that she regarded me as a dangerous 
character seeking the lives of her infants. 
Babies should have a little salt used in the 
bath every day during the hot weather, 
whether prickly heat makes its appearance or 
not. In the case of severe attacks of this 
troublesome affliction, a spoonful of sulphur¬ 
ous acid in a pailful of water applied with a 
sponge will surely effect a cure. 
The absence of bath-tubs and bath-rooms is 
a serious draw-back to the comfort and conven¬ 
ience of a family. The editor of the Indiana 
Farmer has invented a very ingenious substi¬ 
tute. It consists of four slats, a square of rub¬ 
ber cloth and a sponge. The slats are three feet 
long, two and one-half inches wide and three- 
fourths inch thick. A square notch or mortice is 
cut near each end seven-eighths inch wide and 
one and a quarter inch deep. When a bath is 
to be taken two of the slats are laid upon the 
floor parallel and three feet apart with 
notches up. The other two are placed across 
these with notches down and fitting into those 
of the first two. This makes a square box two 
and a half inches deep. Oyer this spread the 
square piece of rubber cloth, which is one and 
a fourth yard wide and same length. This 
forms a large, shallow basin in which to stand 
while using the sponge. When done with the 
bath, gather three corners of the square cloth 
in one hand and the remaining corner in the 
other, and raise from the floor; lower the one 
corner into the slop jar or bucket, and pour out 
the water, gather up the slats, and the work is 
done. 
With this contrivance, a large, soft wash 
rag a sponge, and one soft and one rough 
towel, a moderate degree of cleanliness may 
be achieved. 
Many housekeepers will find upon getting 
out their glass jars that some of the covers 
have been lost or broken. I have it upon the 
authority of a friend that a piece of cotton 
batting, or of ordinary white wadding split in 
two, and tied over the tops for preserves, and 
for canned fruit laid immediately upon the 
fruit with a thin piece of a board with a 
weight on top, will exclude the air, and the 
fruit will keep perfectly. 
Ants are generally troublesome this season. 
Sprinkle some sugar through a sponge and 
leave it where they can get at it. In a short 
time they will be holding high carnival, and 
will have invited their “sisters and their 
cousins and their aunts,” then plunge it at 
once into boiling water: when the sponge is 
dry, repeat. 
Fire-places which are so genial in winter 
are ugly and unattractive places in summer, 
upon which every one may expend such taste 
and ingenuity as heaven may have blessed 
her with. A friend of mine bought a small 
clothes-horse, painted it black, and covered it 
with pretty red and gold Japanese paper. 
This was placed in front of the fire-place with 
a long trough-like box flllod with ferns and 
mosses frofn the woods. It was on castors and 
could be run out of the low window on to the 
porch to bo watered. A still prettier idea was 
that of standing’a large mirror in front of the 
empty grate, and in front of this a box of 
ferns. A cheap mirror, if you will accept an 
ugly frame, can often be bought at a second¬ 
hand furniture dealer’s, or at a city auction 
store. If the frame is too ugly to be redeem¬ 
ed even by a coat of paint, get a lot of cones 
and pretty rustic bits of wood, cover it with 
a coating of hot glue, and apply these as your 
fancy may dictate. 
It is decreed that while civilized man can¬ 
not live without dining, he might live a great 
deal longer without so much dining, or rather 
without dining so extensively. So great an 
authority as Sir Henry Thompson says that 
he had been compelled by facts constantly 
coming beforo him to accept the conclusion 
that more mischief in the form of actual dis¬ 
ease, of impaired vigor and of shortened life, 
has accrued to civilized man from erroneous 
habits in eating than from the habitual use of 
alchoholic drink, considerable as he knew the 
evil of that to be. He also declared himself in 
doubt whether improper and inordinate eat¬ 
ing were not as great a moral evil as inordin¬ 
ate drinking. Many of our best physicians 
say that the habit of over-eating is at the bot¬ 
tom of most troublesome diseases. Doubtless 
this habit is most often laid in childhood. 
How many mothers feed their babies as often 
as they cry, taking it for granted in the most 
imbecile manuer that the baby cries for food, 
when more often the helpless little victim cries 
because it already has had too much food. 
Whenthe stomach once becomes accustomed to 
being crowded with food, if the supply is cut 
short there is at first a gnawing sensation that 
is frequently mistaken for hunger. Persevere a 
little longer in your abstinence, and you will 
find yourself benefited by it, especially in hot 
weather, when we are most apt to over-eat. 
palmetto. 
GOLDEN GRAINS. 
And to every day he gave the Almighty 
Advice which he deemed of great worth ; 
And hli wife took in sewing 
To keep things a-going 
While he superintended the earth. 
—[27ie Churohman. 
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings 
that are very wise and beautiful; but I never 
read in either of them, “ Come unto me all ye 
that labcr and are heavy laden, and I will 
give you rest.”— Augustine . 
Buxton says : “ It is astonishiug how soon 
the whole conscience begins to unravel if a 
single stitch drops; one single sin indulged in 
makes a hole you could put your head 
through.”... 
Thomas Hughes says: “What a man— 
be he young, old or middle-aged—sows, that, 
and nothing else, shall he reap. The one thing 
to do with wild oats is to put them carefully 
into the hottest part of the fire, and get them 
burnt to dust, every seed of them.”. 
CONDUCTED BY MRS. AGNES E. M. CARMAN. 
THOU OR I ? 
Some day, dear, one of us—wo twain— 
Will watch alone in toars 
And call tho other one in vain, 
In voice of hopeless fears, 
As in death’s silence one of us shall lie ; 
Which will it be, dear, thou or I ? 
Were one of us by death bereft 
So of love’s thought and speech, 
What other word of hope Is left 
To utter each to each ? 
So one shall watch and one In death shall llo ! 
Which will it bo dear, thou or I ? 
Beside life’s pathway as we go 
One will grow faint and fail, 
And seek another way to know 
Where death shall not prevail, 
And one will wait alone as days go by, 
For yet a longer space, 
God’s pitying grace: 
Which will it bo, dear, thou or I ? 
I may bo first to understand 
The life so far from thine ; 
Mine may be woe to fold thy hand— 
Grown still and cold In mine— 
As sign of death across thy breast to lie. 
God chastens others so. 
Thank Him, we do not know 
Which It will bo, dear, thou or I! 
—Harriet Mxxwell Converse, in Home Journal. 
TEACHING. 
It was lately said of Ja self-sufficient re¬ 
former, in words that many persons might 
well lay to heart; 
For many years, teaching was considered 
the only “genteel” (How I hate that word I) 
occupation for a lady to engage in. All the 
broken-down gentlewomen, as a matter of 
course, became teachers. Now, however, 
other lines have been opened to women, and 
we find them doing all kinds of clerical work, 
etc. 
It is necessary, in order to become a teach¬ 
er, to pass a certain examination. If the re¬ 
quired average is obtained a certificate is 
awarded, and the recipient may then be con¬ 
sidered a full-fledged teacher. But one-half of 
the teachers who obtain certificates, and who 
teach, are no more fitted for the occupation 
than are I was about to say hod-carriers, 
but that may be a little too strong. Well 
then than are the women who preside at tho 
wash-tubs. Of course^thoy have the necessary 
education, but that is not all that is necessary. 
I he one thing needful is the faculty or power 
to impart. We may know a thing very thor¬ 
oughly and yet be unable to tell any one 
about it in a sufficiently lucid manner to have 
them really understand. We know it so well 
ourselves that we do not realize how much 
there is to learn about it. 
A teacher to be successful must also be able 
to study the character and disposition of the 
children under her charge. A loud, angry 
tone may frighten one>hild into obedience at 
once, while it would have just the opposite 
effect on another. It never does for the 
teacher to lose her temper and fly into a 
passion, for if she does the children will, in a 
measure, lose a certain respect for her, or 
rather, she falls a peg lower in their estima¬ 
tion. She must maintain her dignity, and 
to do this she must be firm. Be gentle, kind 
and considerate, but when it is necessary to 
take a certain stand, take it, and adhere to it 
in a quiet, dignified, firm manner. 
The parent or teacher who goes around 
scolding hour after hour creates an amount 
of fear in the bosoms of those who have been 
under the ban, as it were., but if one should 
rebel ,they would all do so at once, and said 
parent or teacher could howl till she were 
tired without restoring order. But the calm, 
composed, firm-spoken one would in an 
instant have every child at his or her task, 
and quiet reigning over all. 
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