The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-10-07
A Chapter for Young Husbands.

Walking the other day with valued friend. who
had been confined to his room for week or tvo
by sickness, he remarked that husband might
learn good lesson by being occasionally confined
10 MS mouse, having IN this way good opportu-
nifty ot witnessing the and never ending tolls
OF his wife, whose burdens and duties and patient
endurance he might never have understood. There
is great deal in this thought-perhaps enough
for editorial" Men, especially young men.
are called by their business during the day mostly
away from home, returning only at the hours of
meals, and as they nearly the same routine of
duty, they begin to think it is their lot to perform
all the drudgery, and to be exercised with all The
weight OF care and responsibility. But such a man
has very wrong view of the case he needs an
opportunity Tor more extended Observaton-and it
is, perhaps, for this very reason that kind Proyi-
dsnce arrests him by sickness, that while suffering
pam, he may learn what he would fail to observe
IN health We have recently seen a great nanv
things said to wives =xposing their faults perbIps
ma2nltyng them, and exPounding to them, in none
OF the klndest terms, their duty, and the offices
pertaining to woman's sphere Now we believe
that wives, whole really better than thew
are admitted to be- We doubt if there can be found
a large number of wives who are dsayresable and
Negligent without some pal pabe cOdness or snort
coming on the part OF their husbands So far as
we have had an opportunity for observation they
are far more devoted and faithful than those who
style themselves their lords, and who by the Gus
toms OF society, have other and generally more
against these ,ectures often and so obrusively
addressed TO the ladies' and insist upon it, that they
must most of them have been written by some
fusty bachelor, who knew no better, or b. some
inconslderate husbands, who deserve to have been
bachelors to the end OF their lives.
But is there nothing to be said the other side
Are husbands So generally the perfect, amabIe in
iured beings they so often represented to be !
Men sometimes declaie that their wives extrava-
gancies have picked their po kers-that their new
er-ceasing tongues have robbed them OF their peace
and their general dlsagreeableness has driven them
10 the tavern and gaming table but this is general
y the wicked excuse fora most wicked life on their
own part. The fact is men often lose their interest
in their homes by heir own neglect to make their
homes interesting and pleasant 1t should ever
be fJrgoten that the wife has rghts-as sacred af-
ter marriage as Beforehand good u,band's de-
vOiiOn 10 the wife after marriage will conc,d de her
quite as much attention as his gaIlantry did while
lover If 1t is otherwise, he most generally is at
fault.
Take few examples. Before marriage a Young
man would feel some delicacy about accepting an
lhVtation 10 spend an evening IN company where
his lady-love had not been invited. Is he always
50 particular after marriage During the days of
his gallan,ty would demand that he
should make himself agreeable to her-after mar
rage it often happens mat he thinks more of being
agreeable to himself. How often does il bapp-n
that married men, after having been away from
home the live long day, during which the wife has
tnlled at her dues go in The evening some place
VI diuustileHt du ledNS her 10 tOli on, 0ncheered
and unhappy How often does it hal psn thar her
klndest efforts pass unohserved aud unSeHarded by
a smile-and her best etfrls are condemned by a
fault finding husband. How often does it happen.
even when evening is spent at home, that il Is
ployed silently in reading, some other way which
does not recognize wife's right 10 share in the
Joyments even of the firesids.
LoDk, ye husbands, for moment, and remember
what your wife was when you took her, not from
compulsion, but from our chOce-a cho'ce, ha>ed
probably, on what y,u then considered her suptTi-
orIiy to ali others She was young-perhafs the
idol Of happy home; she was gay ana bliIhe as a
lark, and The brothers and sisters at her fathers
fl eside cherished her as an Ohj-ct of endearment.
Yet she lett all to join her destiny with yours 10
make your home happy, and to do all that wOman's