Identifier: christianheralds19unse (find matches)
Title: Christian herald and signs of our times
Year: 1896 (1890s)
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Publisher: (New York, The Christian Herald)
Contributing Library: Christian Herald Association
Digitizing Sponsor: Tisch Library, Tufts University

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wecannot but feel that such a view of a wo-mans life is narrow and selfish on thepart of those who adopt it. True, it is theduty of mothers and daughters to sweetenthe home and make it attractive, but indoing this, let us not make it a prison forthem. In these days, there are a thousanddemands upon womans time and energiesand to limit the sphere of her usefulnessand confine her almost exclusively to thehome precincts, which she must decorateand adorn for the delectation of the stern-er sex, is to apply, in a greatly modifiedway of course, the same principle of mas-culine domination that limited womanspossibilities in earlier davs. Yet there al- ways will be enough home-bodies—volun-tarily so—to keep up the dear old tradi-tions of the hearth. * * Helping Somewhere. Is your father at home ? was asked ofa small child on a village doctors door-step. No, he said, hes away.Where do you think I could find him ? Well, he said, with a considering air,youve got to look for some place where
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A WEDDING PROCESSION IN JAVA. ried on by the Netherlands MissionarySocietv, the Dutch Baptist Societv, Neth-erlands Union, Protestant Church of theNetherlands, Ermelo Missionary Societv,Christian Reformed Church and DutchMissionary Society. There are over sev-enty missionaries at work in the field andnearly fifteen thousand native and foreignChristians. ** * Concerning Home-bodies. Home bodies, as distinguished fromthose people who love to go gadding aboutand constantly visiting their neighbors,are certainly more desirable as acquain-tances. Yet it is possible to overdo thestaying at home. My wife is such ahome-body, is the familiar expressionused bv many a man who desires to saysomething pleasant of his lifes partner;but the poor Stay-at-home would verylikely be better pleased if it were recog-nized that she is not quite so much of afixture by the fireside. Oh, mother nev-er goes anywhere, remarks a daughter,in an off-hand way, that shows how littleimportance she attaches to the stat

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