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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1887)
THOUGHTS AND FACTS FOlt WOMEN. 97 sauio time, she is jKsessed of a strong l'in? and attractive. Hut let the tn 1 ever so to do. . She is able neither " to chcstse imr re pleasant ami attractive, ami the prnmnwhoU fuse." but miiHt wait and xce. What in harder to occupy it I evrr mi 'lr and Uwlnatin. than to wait while others do, or do nut do, that if she have not knowledge required to ivrform which in of vital moment to yourself and yours? the work, the kitchen i a failure. This U a Yet thin was Portia's lot. Happy all likelier day of Wioks lks on inting, lk nn fan who are fortunate enough to have things turn cy work, (sinks on dress-making, Usk (or the out well, for the vehicle of event doe not al nursery, and Umk) fr the k. The laM ways drop results ho favorably in real life, but named are in every complete kit hen. ('miking, often, along with a gnawing discontent, in bitter in the rhief art of the kitchen and the imt urlul miHfortune, with all its attendants. However, art of the home, f health an I gissl nature de for the fair Portia, there came a successful wooer pcnd un it as upon nothing ele. The ga and a happy chooser. Alan! ere the marriage cook in progressive, wide-awake, trie new rew rites are over, comes trouble for Rassanio. Hunt ipes ami studies the chemical qualitiea of find, cning to the church, their fortunes are made that she may know what is nutritii4 and de one and the bridegroom takes a loving dcjwrt sirable. ure for a brief time, to thwart adversity ami re deem hi honorable name. Immediately we see hVautj ! iha pmii tUthtn ! Amt developed in Portia's character the noblest trait TUi noli oW tU a, of woman the power to rise equal to emergen Ami ; it a tm imtmUaaknoaa UI.k. cy. No longer listless and aweary of the world, Woman seeks to make home lautiful lcaue but with a determined purto8e, she U-mls every of the refining. plcaing, quieting effect of bran faculty to its attainment. " I never did rc-nt ty upon the occupant (4 home. When tit of doing good," she said, " and shall not now." master the house cornea in nervous and tired, Iisguising themselves, she and her maid rcjwir he finds rest in the cliange U his surrounding, to the scene of Ikssanio's trouble, where, with and the more pleasing the change tle more t surprising ease, Ralthuzur frees the defendant feet the rest. Then the Imys the Uiitrr-st, and convicts the plaintiff. How often it hup- romping Isiys step lighter when tliey enter a jtens that women, living in retirement, are un U-autiful home. They love it Mtf Iwrauw it known until something occur to draw them pleases them, and seek not so mum to -nd out, when it seems as though the heart devel their evenings away, (iirls, tm, are more re 0s the brain. fi'MH n beautiful home. Natur As with Portia, so with many in real life; dis- ally, and often of newssity, woman iwea the content comes through aimlessness and inactiv arts, whether great or small, to which U has ity, and can be overcome only with removal of attained. Not the least among tW Is fancy the cause. Let useful activity ake the place of work the m"t abused snd most adured of ail idle passiveness; let puqswe supplant listless- home arts. It is abused, however, levaus It U ness ; and weariness and discontent overdone ; not l-cau- it haa no nwrit in Itaelf . Shall fold their Uu lik. th. Ara. It U wrong to do fancy work to the tylmU Anda..ilU,-...r. nccry reading; to tU barring out tM work outside 4 liome, a certain 1ioi ha The kitchen should I one of the brightest, every woman owes to humanity. However, cheeriest rooms in the house, es,cially if there there often come time, in tl rijrrtenrt. i etr .re cildrenin the family and the mother d- ery bookkeeper when a mk fn-n daily the cooking, dish-washing and many other little routine Uneeded. At m-h . Ito. Mng things which must W done daily. A bright, piece of fancy work rrhm. lb. mind rare cheery room im,rta these qualities to it- orm- . r-vives the spmt !n.vk; ::uhJi t maim nervoun nun imi i - i II I I I ... - . ... . f U'.... more true of any other room than tin, kitchen an s ,-n MMIU Tl,ekiU hen should also I surticiently Urge an al;e ran , l-rself In ,. ,i i.-lf Ju- Him!- bv y, lw uumiU ago ba-l a IH commolioutoallowtheiesenceof hauaooa mi . ;,- miitwKit interfering let on Infant tuarrugt-a puWJr.l in u J, en personam it at one time wuihhh inwrin . .t.-tiii,,- -:.!. ... . ...... mM-in vine or two of lndu, has mrntly sent in amd UirUhi in the wmdowsadda wjrh h wIh-jJ... h4t