Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1915 — THRILLS OF A WOMAN’S DAY [ARTICLE]

THRILLS OF A WOMAN’S DAY

Many and Varied Experiences Are Likely to Be Her Lot During Twenty-Four Hours.

A woman turns from binding up the broken head of a dare-devil boy to cheering a husband whose affairs are going to smash. She turns from entertaining her daughter’s friends to meeting the crisis of her son s first cigar, or drink, or questionable companions. She does it regularly, steadily, naturally; and under the necessity she develops until she is ready for anything. If the house burns, five times out of ten she saves the baby and the family records, while nine times out of ten the husband saves the coal pail and the looking glass! If there’s a crash and lacerated bodies and bleeding wounds, she knows what to do, and she does it. That s her business. If she falters, it is only to pull herself together for a fresh effort. "You dare not faint; there is nobody knows but you,” a quivering man told his wife when she staggered after an hour and a half of relief work over a horribly burned man with the scanty improvised remedies of a pioneer home. She did not faint; she knew, too, that she dared not. It was her business to stick. It was what life had fitted her for, what her mother and grandmotners had done before her. It was in her blood. —Woman’s Home Companion.