Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1853-11-09
1853.

ESE- A SCHOOLING WIFE, hey? Well it's
no wonder. How did you 60 home lastnight?
Do you remember Slamming doors, kick
ing the cat and the stool right and left, and
cursing the house-maid-bccause-well, you
cant tell for what, to save you from the gal
lows. When you're from home you amble
to the favors of those who care not a leather
cent for you. and all day long you laid an
embargo on your i'll nature-smiled, and nod
ded, and ambled like a ~penitent sinner until
you got home, and then you boil over your
gall and vinegar and enjoy the luxury ofyou1
swapping turtle nature. O! you wolfsh
wretch 4!
Who wonders at your wife being cross p
Looking at you in your home character" a
week would turn sugar into the cream of Tar
tar besides your wife gets supper every even
ing with that poor, cross, sickly child in her
arms. Why don't you take the child and
walk through the garden with it and let tho
fresh air rush in and expand its little lungs?
" Youneed rest when you come home y You
selfish scape-grace, don't your wife need
E "rest'' too ? Poor woman she has not en-
joyed many hours rest since your deceptive
! promises lured her from the domestic hest
I where a fathers mothers smile was sun
= light to the heart. The arms of your child
4 rem cling about her neck lovingly-all their
, love-all their cares are cast upon her. You
enjoy the blithe society of your friends about
town, you revel in the sunlight and song Of
this beautiful world that God has given us
all but she, alas! is entombed in your cheer
ar less home, with cares and sorrow dragging
If. her to the grave-she is dependent upon some
lr- kind neighbor to call in a moment and break
i'd up the wearisome monotony of her dreary
life, or the opening of the back window for
he what native air she breathes, or turning a.
, a side the curtain in front for the visit of a sun
ZEN beam on the floor for the children to play
zen with and try to catch and carry to the nur-
cal sery. Look to this matter, and ask Heaven
to help you to a better heart and a larger
mo soul, you guilty woman killer! When YOU
de- come from your shop at night, let a smile
en- CLEAN on your face, although the room be
his Uttered mantle high, and give your heart
md sick wife a kiss-not that Of a Judas, but the
ach uOIeSG, SUul IOdCIlnS MS W uHsullleU dHeC
ton. Trot the baby and sing it a song, Civ
little Benny q new picture book and spell
ms easy words for him, tell that withered fowe
NV that your hands plucked, years ago, from it
home-soil, that you have brought her a ne
,ru- book to read to you, and that you are goin
tbs. to forsake your gay, alluring vices and sta,
ton with her. The "Age" pledges its veracity
UGH sir, that there will come a bright tear, lik
ter a lovely star, in that poor, ill used woman
s so eye, and that tear will presage a bright,
of a future for you and her. And she will expre
en- fears soon after, that the tea and toast are n
zen quite to your liking-fears that had long bee
into strangers at your board.
b;le Give the plan a trial noaU. Your home W
the grow more homelike, and ere a month is pa
: 70 sed, while you toll in your workshop or cou
orse ting room, the most pleasing thought til
oma crosses your mind in the live long day W
be, that night is coming and bringing with
for the pleasant meeting with your smiling W
ned. and chattering babes, and the home chat, a
10 in the song, and the music on the old Piano a
uliar Guitar in the old family hall.