Pleasant Evening Reveries for Tired Mothers in Eventide
The Family and Home Circle presents a column at Eventide offering light domestic musings for tired mothers. It invites readers to relax with gentle reflections and practical tips for home life.
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Newspaper
Myrtle Point Enterprise
Location
Myrtle Point, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1917
Page
4
The Family and Home Circle presents a column at Eventide offering light domestic musings for tired mothers. It invites readers to relax with gentle reflections and practical tips for home life.
A Los Angeles contributor voices frustration with the term wasteful housewife and questions male criticism. She urges men to curb spending and tobacco use during the crisis, calling for husbands to stop pressing wives and for men to fund their own habits.
A dated essay extols mourning as an honorable human emotion and urges readers to seek calm recollection of loved ones. It contrasts grief with social duties, praises virtuous living, and condemns selfishness. The narrator urges mothers and fathers to cultivate warmth, responsibility, and cheerful tolerance in the community.
The piece argues that advertising increases demand and lowers unit costs through bulk buying. It uses shoemakers and local merchants as examples, noting fixed expenses like heat and clerks remain the same whether activity is high or low. In wartime, buying advertised branded merchandise is presented as economical and patriotic.
In a domestic crisis Harriet and Rodney debate moving from their costly fortified home to a Cape Cod retreat while Rose nears childbirth. The narrative shifts to Rose awakening to the news of twins, amid joy and confusion, as family dynamics unfold and a public notice warns of rural route cutbacks by the post office.
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