SHOULD ALL GIRLS DO HOUSEWORK?

Waikato Argus, Volume VI, Issue 443, 3 June 1899, Page 4

SHOULD ALL GIRLS DO HOUSEWORK?

A NEW ZEALAND LADY SAYS " YES." The engrossing topic of whether the modern girl should undertake housework or not has been engaging the attention of parents and daughters for Home time. Most of the parents' letters which have appeared in the Press show they consider it the duty of their girls to do as much housework as possible. Many of the daughters' letters quite agree with this, the writers b°lieviug that •• Honour thy father and mother " is the best motto to act upon. Other girls, however, show that they consider themselves debased by being called upon to undertake housework. Miss Peterson, of Featherstone, North Island, is a young lady who has something interesting to say on this subject. She believes in girls helping their mothers, providing they ;ire in good health. " I am," says Miss Peterson, " now 19, but since I was 15 I have been suffering. My principal trouble was heart palpitation, and this was induced by auwniia or poverty of blood. Every time I ran upstairs my heart would palpitate frightfully, ami I would have to rest to recover my breath- Neither could I sleep, and oiten when I rose in the morning I was as tired as I had been the night before. Sometimes I had cramps in the legs and suffered frightful agony. I could do very little housework while in this condition, and was, unfortunately, not able to assist my mother much. My legs, also, used to swell, and my mother naturally became anxious, for my conditioa became worse in stead of better. Several leading fractitiouers prescribed for me, but alhough most kind and attentive, I did not seem to benefit much by their treatment. Three clever doctors were also consulted with refertnee to an affection of the eye from which I suffered, but even that they failed to cure. One day we read in the Evening Post jabout Dr. Williams' pink pills tor pale people, and seeing the honest manner in which the testimonials were given by the people who had been cured, I purchased a supply, and two or three days after commencing them a wonderful ehange came over me. After that I continued with them carefully, and day by day I improved greatly. I took nearly nine boxes altogether, but they have made a new girl of me in every way. lam now well set up, strong and healthy. Rverybody says I have become a tine-looking girl. All my ailments have faded away, and, strange to relate, even the affection of the eye has totally disappeared since using the pills. It is nearly a yeir ago now since I have had any sign of my old complaint, so that my cure must be permanent. lam able to help my mother in her housework now, and am glad to do so. Yes," added Miss Peterson in conclusion, "i believe in girls doing housework when they are in good health. When they are weak and ancemic, however, they may easily overtax themselves. Several of my friends have used Dr. Williams' pink pills with great benefit, and I am very pleased to recommend them most heartily, especially for all unaimic, undeveloped girls. Dr. Williams' pink pills cure rheumatism, neuralgia scatiea, lumbago, pleurisy, pneumonia, bronchitic, coughs and colds, influenza, indigestion, all ladies ailments, loss of vital strength, debility. Sold by all chemists and storekeepers, and the Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Wellington, N.Z,, price three shillings pc box, six boxes for sixteen shillings and sixpence, post free. Be sure you get the genuine with all seven words, Dr. Williams' pink pills for pale people, printed in red on white outside wrapper. These are the sort •rliich cured Miss Peterson.