AIDING AND ABETTING REBELLION.

White Ribbon, Volume 29, Issue 338, 18 August 1923, Page 6

AIDING AND ABETTING REBELLION.

Dear Sisters, This is an op *n letter to those whom t may concern, or rather to those whom tiie cap fits. Will all such please wear it? It is a plea to women to look squarely in the face their duty to themselves! Many of you have been looking after that husband and family for years and years, doing for them being all things to them, bearing all things from them, and have had no adequate change or rest —no time away by yourself- • away from that family! You are beginning to notice in yourself signs of irritation, impatience, and general tiredness. Will you not accept my suggestion that you need to get away from home and family, and the burden of preparing three meals a day seven days in the week, for a spell. If there is a W.C.T.L. Convention or Women’s Missionary Conference to which you could go as delegate, or anything like ihat, in which you are interested, and where you will meet devoted and interesting women, you will be taken right out of yourself, and come back fresh and ready for work again. Just make your plans and preparations to go quietly, even if the family think the heavens will fall on them in your absence. Besides the duty, you bare to think of and consider yourself, there is also your duty to your family, in train ing them to be considerate ol and thoughtful for you, and this is an important point which, it seems to me, is often overlooked by mot hep I know there are women v\ho are well looked after in this way, and others who consider the keeping of their houses just so is their great mission in life, and who refuse to give up the jmanagement to other hands. It is not to these classes I am speaking. I know from personal experience that a month away from home duties every year, or two years, is a wonderful help in keeping a woman's outlook on life iane and cheerfu*. and helping her to endure to trie end. It will, really, pay the family handsomely. Hoping that these remark. 1 will incite in some woman a feeling of rebellion against the existing order o: things.— I am. yours truly, A FRT I.OW WOMAN.