Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1883 — The Mistress of a Famfly. [ARTICLE]

The Mistress of a Famfly.

The house-mother! What a beautiful, comprehensive word itfis! How suggestive of all that is wise and kindly, comfortable and good! Surely, whether the lot comes to her naturally, in the happy gradations of wife-hood and mother-hood, or as the maiden mistress of an adopted family, or —as one could find many instances —when the possession of a large fortune received or earned —gives her, with all the cares and duties, many of the advantages of matron-hood every such woman must acknowledge that it is a solemn as well as a happy thing to be the mistress of a family.