The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1849-11-24

All this iDVofTeS SELF denial, and self
sacrifice, itistrue.; and If we like, we
can bring ourselves up with sentimen.
tai, mock.heroic strength, derived from
the lessons of poets, who will tell YOU
that 'woman's lot is TO suffer, that her s
are silent tears to weep that i, is what
we must expect. to do if we generously
yield our lives and fortunes to those
monsters, men. those unfeeling, those
hard.heared husbands and fathers we
read OF in romances, or see ran,ing upon
the stage. Many women can easily
work upon their imaginations and their
morbid sensibility until no sacrifice
seems too great, whilethey are regarded
by the world as heroines in real life..-
lrving's 'Wife' has done a great deal
for these ladies', and they already see
themselves arrayed in pure white, after
setting out supper ofstrawberries and
cream, and touching The harp gently
while they await their husbands return,
wittthe prettiest stage effect imaginable.
Not that we would ridicule or underrate
that exquisite little sketch, the wife of a
bankrupt merchant OF our day, il he
honestly satisfies his creditors, soon finds
that white dresses and practice honrs'
are luxuries too expensive for ever day
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Real self denial springs from deeper
sentiment thansthis. lis sincere con.
yiction oflhe duties of daily life, and d
careful training of every faculty to the
eod that they may be we'll performed
moreover, there is a consideration which
some ladies overlook entirely, at least
their acts would seem 70 say 70: Did Did i
ever occur TO you, ,pre,ly one, as yo,
looked into your husbands 5 counting room
: to see If no was ready TO go up 10 din
ner, or TO get that pretty crotchet nurs,
re.filled, did il ever cross your min,
that ne might consider it disagr eeabl,
i ntcs'tf uutscni ISu--sre,y
dainlily over the straw or the shavings,
and thread yoar way through the lum.
bering boxes of the packing room 10 the
little cold den--somelimes without fire,
or again heated intensely because they
are 100 busy TO think of regulating fires
which is dignitied by the title of scoun.
ting room, and there, i'm an office coat,
evidently intended more for use than or.
nament, with quill in his hands or
thrust behind the ear, is the object oil
your search. There are dirty workmen
talking with him, and while you are i'm.
palientiy wishing them gone, you have
leisure to notice, the ungarnished walls,
tho dirty floor, the dingy window, guilt.
less of a curtain, but which nevertheless
obstructs the view of the talI, unsightly
warehouses before Ii. And here, sur.
rounded by the buslle and turmoil of
business, with no congcnial sight or
sound pcrl.lexed with intricate caicula.
lions, and troubled losses, is the day
passed by the man whose leisure YOU
await. Your fathcr's life passed away
as busily, your brothers are bending
over some other desk !, or il mayb be pace
lburriedly over wharves and through
dray obstructed by.ways. liz your deli.
cate nerves cannot endure theIude as.
sociatiop Tor half nn hour, think youit
isinp sacrifice forthem,io pass daynlter
day, aud year after year, In tue sumo
'unyaried round 4 Aud to what end
that your beauty and your comfort may
be minislered 10, and your children be
removed from want and humber toll.
8 Among alliworking classes, from the
Judge upon the bench, for surely he Ia.
6ors, TO the poorest mechanic who earns
his bread by the sweat OF his brow, men
are animated by the Thoughts of home,
by the hope Of of,proyiding for, ils :ansa.es.
Directly or indircc,ly the gain is ours;
-und aif7ttris care, this perplexity and toll
is borne for our sake. fhen shame on
us, my sisters, that we so often speak
and think as if there was no self sncri..
4 flee, no endurance of evil suve among
us. And while we thus acknowledge
',he devoted love that seeks 10 supply
eur necessities. howeyer much itgnay
fail from accident or misfortune, letus
deem those little nets of kindness and
consideration, which ills iD our powerto
apestorriorl their ifeomfort, al ON acknowl.
edgement and q return, rather than q
tribute unwillinely exaeled.
How to make home heppy'---it Is a
trite subject, we know, and one on which
Mrs. Howitt Mrs. Ellis, Mira. Sigourney,
Mfs, Hale, Miss Sedgewick, mud a hcst
of other noble women have exerted ,beir;
moas eafnesl efforts. StlI.we come like
Ruth, 9 gleaner in the fields, which they
have rcaped, us weiresd the snplands Of
life which they haye passed over bo.
lore us. W
Domesiic discord, says an old w,i.
Her, is jhat worst evil which Pundora's s.
boz eoniaiued. Fsomii springs d hum
dred offences, and woe TO him BY whom
they come. She that hath ehcered one
hearth by. her good deeds and kindly
Offices, that hath reared vp chiIdren 10
| leall liier blessed, d bcnediclion which no
hardened reprohatc prononnceth ON The
ac;hor ofhis being, hath won, for hesseIi
tho thanks Of the commupila ire she
dweii, andtho award OF AZ faIlh.
ful servant, when sha into
lihat rest which remaiaSS fai.h,
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