WEARY WOMEN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2266, 9 April 1886, Page 2

WEARY WOMEN.

Nothing is more fully mistaken than the idea that a woman fulfills her duty by doing an amount of work that iB far beyond her strength. She not only doeg not fulfil her duty, but she most Bignally. ' fails in it; and the failure is truly deplorable. There can be no sadder sight than that of & brokon-dowii, over-worked wife and mother,—a woman who is tired all her life throught. If the work of the household cannot be accomplished by order, system, and moderate work, without the necessity of wearing;, heart-break-' ing toil, without making life a* tad-mill of labour, then for the Bake of humanity, H ills work go. Better, to live in tlm midst of disorder than that order should be purchased at so high a price—the cost of health, strength, happiness, and $ all that makes existence, endurablf • The woman who speu<j» r lite4Ga unnecessary labor is by thil fe'ry labor ' unnecessary labor, unfitted for the higher duties of home,. She should be the haven of rest to which both children and husband turn for peace and refreshment.She should bo the careful, intelligent adviser.and guide ot one,.and the tender confident and helpmeet of the other. How; is it possible for a woman exhausted in body and, as a natural cunsequonce, in mind also, to perform either of fcheso offices Vlt is not possible. Tho constant strain is too great. ilture g m , vay . beneath it. She loses health and apiritY and hopefulness, and more than all, her youth, tho last thing that a woman should allow to slip from her; for no mattor how old she is in years, she should dj»young in heart and feeling, for the youth of age is sometimes more attractive than youth itself. To the overworked womai this groan old age is out of the question.' Her disposition is often ruined, her tern, per soured, her very nature, changed by the burden which, too heavy to carry,is often dragged along. Even her affections are blunted, and she becomes merely amachine,-a woman without the time to be womanly, a mother without tho time to tram and guide her children, a wife without tho time to cheer and sympathise and solace heiWsband, I woman, so overworked duflfr. the IA that when night comes, her sole thougW and most intense longing are for the rest! and sleep that probably will not come, and, even if they should, that she is too tired to enjoy them. Better by far let everything go unfinished, and live as best she can, than entail© on herself and family the curse of overwork.-Sanitary Magazine. '