The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-06-20

and said: ''It is but justice that you should
know my name. | am lieutenant Lannes.
nephew of the great Marshal Lannes.l May
God bless you all-farewell!'' AS those youths
thoughtfully returned to their accustomed pur-
suits, not few resolved in their deepest souls,
that temperance and virtue should ever mark
their character, ,and that the soldiers VOW should
be theirs. .. r.. -.-..,.s.. .-.z .s. a.. ..-, Fix
HINTS FOR HusBANDs.-There is an article
afoat in the papers, entitled "golden rules for
wives,'' which enjoins upon the ladies rather
abect submission to their husbands will and
whims Iron rules, not golden ones, we
should call them. But the art of living to-
gether in harmony is very difficult art, and
instead of confuting the positions of the author
of the rules aforesaid, we offer the following,
as the substance of what wife likes in hus-
band:
Fidelity is her hearts first and most just de-
mand. The act of infdelity true wife cannot
forgive, it rudely breaks the tie that bound her
heart to his, and that tie can never more exist.
The first place in her husbands affections no
true wife can learn to do without. When she
loses that, she has lost her husband, she is a
widow, and has to endure the pangs of bereave-
ment intensified by the presence of what she no
longer possesses. There is living mummy in
the house, reminding her Of her loss in the
most painful manner.
A woman likes her husband to excelin those
qualities which distinguish the masculine from
the feminine being, such as strength, courage,
fortitude and judgment. She wants her hus-
band to be wholly aman. She cannot entirely
love one whom she cannot entirely respect, be-
lieve in and rely on. ay v*@s Is
A wife dearly likes to have her husband
stand high in the regard of the community in
which they may reside She likes to be thought
by her own sex fortunate woman IN having
such husband as she has. She has taste fol
the respectable, desires to have clean looking
front door, and keep up good appearance
generally. Some wives, it is said, carry this
too far, and some husbands we know are dan
gerousy complaisant in yielding to the front
door ambition of their wives. But good hus
band will like to crafty his wife in that respect
as far as he can without sacrificing greater
objects.
Perfect sincerity wife expects, or at least
has a right to expect, from husband. She de-
sire to know the real state of the case, how
ever it may be concealed from the world. I
wrings her heart and wounds her pride to dis
cover that her husband has not wholly confidec
in her. A man may proftably consult his wife
on almost any project, it is due to her that be
should do so, and she is glad to be consulted.
Above most other things, wife Graves from
her husband appreciation. The great majority
of wives lead lives Of severe and anxious toll
With unimaginable anguish, and peril to thei
own lives, they become mothers. Their chill
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| God watches like mothers, says Fanny Fern
in that chapter of Ruth Hail. which depict
with such power and truth a mothers agonizinE
anxieties. And besides her maternal cares,
wife is the queen-regent Of household king
dom. She has to think and plan for everybody
If in all her la5ors and cares she feels that sh
has her husbands sympathy and gratitude,
he helps her where man can help woman,
he notices her efforts, applauds her skill, ant
allows her deficencies-all is well. But t
endure all this, and yet meet no appreciatinE
word, or glance, or act, from him for whom
she tolls and bears, is very bitter.
A wife likes her husband to show her all du'
respect in the presence of others, she canno
endure to be reproyed or criticised by him whe1
others can hear it. Indeed, it is most wrong II
husband thus to put his wife to shame, ane
we cannot help secretly admiring the spirit o
that French woman who, when her husband
had so wronged her, refused ever again to utte1
word, and for twenty years lived in the house
a dumb woman. We admire her spirit, though
not her mode of manifestingit. Husbands owe
most profound respect to their wives, for THEN
wives are the mothers of their children. Nc
man has the slightest claim to the character o1
a gentleman, who is not more scrupulously po-
lite to his wife than to any other woman. We
refer here to the essentials of politeness, not c
its forms, we mean Kindness and justice in little
things
A wife likes her husband to be considerate
| Unexpected kindness and unsolieitated favors
touch her heart. She appreciates the softened
tread when she is sick, she enjoys the gift
brought from distance and everything which
proves to her that her husband thinks of her
comfort and her good. g
Every one, says the American Union, knows
the influence of depressing passions on the hu-
man frame. beaten army has always more
sick Exclusively of the wounded) than a VIC
torious one, and in civil life, the effects of loses
and disappointment in destroying the digestion
and wasting the strongest constitution are but
too familiar to the commonest observer. But
the picture has brighter side. ~.
Hope and success are finer tonics than any to
be found in apothecaries' shops, and even fear
may boast its cures. A German physician, SO
runs the tale, succeeded in curing an epidemic
conyulsion among the children of a poor house
by fear Of red hot poker. The fits had spread
by sympathy and imitation, and this great ply
sican, mistrusting the ordinary remedies in SO
grave a case, heaten an iron instrument and
threatened to burn the first who should fall into
fit. The convulsion did not return.
A celebrated scholar was once attacked with
fever at a country inn. He was visited by two
physicians, one of item supposing from the
poverty of his appearance, that he would not
understand a foreign language, said to the
other. "Let's try an experiment ON this poor
fellow" AS soon as they were gone, the pa
tient got out of bed, hurried on his clothes,
scampered off as fast as he could, and was
cured of his fever by his fright 7.
The most beautiful instance, however, that
we met with, is one in which the cure depen
ded on the combination of hope and Of memo
ry. Dr. Rush, when quite young man, was
educated in the country, in very remote part
of which he was in the habit of visiting, in