Part 3 of the article written by Movie Star Clara Kimball Young
Adapted from the Woman’s World magazine, March, 1921

If you haven’t read them:

Part 1

Part 2

By the time John came to take Elice back with him, I thought I would go mad. I was never permitted the least bit of privacy. She followed me everywhere asking endless questions. Read more »

Part 2 of the article written by Movie Star Clara Kimball Young
Adapted from the Woman’s World magazine, March, 1921

Too many of you, I am afraid, go home from the matinee and sigh and moon about the play, and wish you could be the star, and then slip into the old calico apron you had on when your husband went to work that morning, and slap the supper down on the kitchen table because it’s too much trouble to set the dining room table. Read more »

Advice to Women from Movie Star Clara Kimball Young
Adapted from the Woman’s World magazine, March, 1921

Probably one thousand times a year the postman brings me a letter asking if I can help some woman out of the drab, gray commonplace of domestic unhappiness.

“I have always tried so hard to save money so that Joseph and I could own our home,” writes one, “but now that I am old and tired from scrimping, Joseph is tired of me and of the house.”

“You and I are women of the world,” comes one note on imported Italian paper. “Will you tell me why it is that men of culture, breeding and large business affairs will leave well appointed homes in search of frivolous young girls and cabarets?” Read more »

Today is your day. This hour is your hour. Now is your time. Another minute, another hour, another day is coming, but none is so important to you as now. And yet no days will be as sweet as those that bear the perfume and the beauty of the reminiscent past, none is so truly great and wonderful as those that glow with hope beyond the horizon of the golden future.

Why do we care so little for what we have now? It is that which we have had, or that for which we hope, that possess our thoughts most. And yet all that we actually have is the present, and that present is as the glow on a pearl that burns for a moment and then rolls out of the sunshine as another quite as beautiful takes its place.

Today is your day. This minute is your minute just the same. It is both a realization and a memory. With it you will measure Yesterdays, by it you will appraise Tomorrows.

By Hiram M. Greene, Editor of the Woman’s World, March 1921

From The Ladies’ Home Journal, February, 1905
By Gabrielle E. Jackson

Editor’s Note: These are 105 years old, but amazingly still apply today! I hope you enjoy reading these as much as I did. If you are a mother, there is so much wisdom here for you. Read more »

The New Century Home Book, 1900

The value of rest in the home life can hardly be overestimated.  For mothers expecially, the benefits of rest are beyond computation.  The constant strain of managing the daily affairs of a household is most wearing to mind and body.  You cannot expect good health or good temper if you are always tired.  you cannot give your best service to your family if you are overtired. Read more »

Armour’s Monthly Cook Book, October, 1912

Seven Rules for Daily Practice in the Day’s Work

1.  Never miss an opportunity for saying a kind word, realizing that “kind hearts are more than coronets.”

2.  Carry the spirit of cheerfulness into your daily work and into your homes.

3.  Despond never, but be ever mindful of the “silver lining” of the darkest cloud.

4.  Pass on, when possible, the happiness, blessings, and good things in life to those who are not so bountifully supplied as yourselves.

5.  Do not forget, if trouble knocks at your door, to count up the blessings you have previously enjoyed.

6.  Be specially thoughtful of, and attentive to, the old, the weak, and the sick; never pass them by without a pleasant word of greeting.

7.  Cheer and help in every way possible all those among your friends, work mates, and acquaintances whom you may find in bodily or mental trouble or distress.