Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1905 — A Woman's Question. [ARTICLE]

A Woman's Question.

Every little while one sees a man# of printed advice to mothers including the charge “Don’t b‘6 in a hurry,” of “takeyourtlme In everything you do,‘ and thus reserve ydtrir nerve force," etc. One chmfci at last'to wonder ft* the writer* of all this advice ejer undertook to tike care of a family. Did tuch petstons eker attempt to get'breakfast for a man who simply must be at his daily work at T:3O a. m„ meantime the baby cried distressingly, and some of the other children who were dressing clamored wildly for help to find missing shoes, or to hav* their clothing put on. or buttoned if it was on? Meanwhile the iceman pounded at the door, and the milkmah was late and there was no cream for cofTe, the toast burned, the coffee boiled over, the good man grew cross because he was likely to be late to his wofk, and —and —or, a dozen things more in the way of hindrances. And if thepe people who write so soothingly upon the ‘don’t burry” question will kindly put themselves in the place of the woman here described, they may poMlbly experience a change of heart aid discover that, under certain household circumstances, the one and only thing to do la u> burn, hurry, t