American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1858-10-21

would be thought sane, red their Bibles
like the old dotsrd who tyIsnDized over
his wife and said "sbe was commanded TO
obey her husband with fear and trem.
bling" AlasI how many do.
The text Of Husbands love your wives
as your own flesh, and be not bitter against
them" should be printed 10 capital letters;
for surely many husbands have never read
or practiced it. There are, 20 doubt. ex-
ceptions. to prove the rule, that all wives
are good. bu: there are very few who would
not make good wives. if they had good
husbands, who feared God and loved and
respected woman. But alas! alas! thou
sands Of women are dying daily, like poor
Mary, OF a starved hearth .s.sa l.
The husband rides about the farm in the
glorious sunlight. makes pleasant calls in
town, hears music and dancing, concerts,
orations speeches and lectures. The lone
" wife fingers prisoner at home, brood
ing over her griefs, watching the sick babe
cutting, making and mending the clothes.
worrying with triaing servants, and Gifi'
cult kinsfolks, and all the thousand petty
cares of the young wife vex her righteous
spirit. 'Slowly the time wears away" it
is late she is weary, sick and perhaps fret
full. Can she always meet her husband
with smile? Mol Some griefs gnaw
deep, and some are bard TO bear. She has
never been taught to bear the yoke in her
youth--she perhaps lacks judgment and
Iorbearancs. 1t takes more philosophy to
bear little troubles than great ones. ltis
the husband who should bring his smiles
home with him. and aid. cheer and en-
courage his desp ,nding "chide wife," but
he does not do it. He soon forgets the
endearing smiles with whch be wooed her
from foud parents, brothers. sisters and
. friends, and the promises he made at the
0 altar. H returns home aud finds his wife
s in tears and sorrow, and that his affairs
t do not 90 oc with the regularity OF the AS
s tor House, when the proprietor is at home
. He frowns, scolds and frets, and swears IL
a his wrath, 'Ihere is no peace or pleasure
o at home" ooh husband spare that las
/: blow" Mary exclaimed. but be would not
Il Matters grew from bad to worse. till sh
o who few years before, had been draw
10 like a charmed bird, fed like s,ricke
deer to "Old virginla's shore" Ever
/" heart knows its own sorrows." Let n
ia one say under like circumstances, the
d would have acted batter"
N Who knows the past. and who can jude
d another9 The secrets ofihe cruel husban
are generally where male lecturer say
+ thew ought to be, ''screwed up IN the CO
fin with the wife" Native delicacy fol
a bids her repeatir g the coarse epithets an
50 b, utal couduct bestowed upon her. Tt
n ouly alternative left her from dying dealt
er a martyr. to matrimony, if her parents al
all dead, is to accept the poor pittauce the la
allows her, and cast herself upon the tel
der merciea Of cold, uufeellng worl
where the cruelty Of both sexes proclai
. womsu's faults on the house-tops. Will
=. - her oppressor is left with all the hard ear
1S S ings Of the wife, TO which surely s
y: uo would be entitled aud oftentimes, he
ID - tains the marriage portion, the hard ear
gu -. ings of her parents. Such is law, but
II iustice? He is then enabled to DIRE
:, fine, flourish about, and get another W
to victimize.
w. Happily Tor our hero'ne' her ia.ner
!, wisely retained her portion. and kinc
welcomed his heart-broken daughterto 10
~, quiet home. "Every heart knows its o.
~ ~ bitterness, and a stranger intermsddit
'Is ;so not Herewith" No tongue or pen
~; i tell the painful! story Of withered hopes a
LaS blghted affections. Mary ponders
! . griefs and sorrows in her lone heart. :
~ buried her frst. born. beautiful boy,
.JiSS was accused Of beng Indifferent to
80 80 loss, because she went to church the y
w ~" bath afterwards But where should
tho M wounded spirit flee, but to the great p
hn. sician? Heaven alone can cure earth's
M ,.s rows. Years have rolled on. still
,.r. "she lives, for life may long be borne,
'"' Ere sorrow breaks the chain" t.a
"'e Farewell. Mary, may thy last be
'"r. a,A best days; may Thy end be peace, and
'a ,san hearts history = warning to othersE
v.n MoRAI.--Let young ladies bewate.
Inc they become the victims of avariee, as
ONE good or Ill fortune of every one depend
al. the choice she makes fora husband.
'nse Provisions AND HOGS. The Louis
70 Is Journal, Of Saturday. says: The pre-