Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-02-05

took place. That heavy burden he had to
carry, in addition to his other heavy burdens,
| il required all his strength.
| During the two years that elapsed be fore
his feet were on firm ground again, he ap-
peared to have lost all interest in his home,
/ his wife and his children. Mrs. Williams
frequently said lightly speaking to her friends
| or acquaintance, that she had no husband
now; Dir. Williams had united himself to
business, in second marriage. If she spoke
| thus in his presence, he would part his lips
| in forced smile, or, perhaps say jocose-
/ ly, that she had better have him before the
courts for bigamy.
Fashion, show pleasure, filed up all the
time of Mrs, Williams which was not devot-
ed to maternal duties and househald ca res;
and business was the Moloch at which Mr..
Williams sacrificed all his social and homo
affections.
At forty, with family of interesting chill
dren springing up around them, they were
but coldly tolerant of each other. Never
having seen from the beginning of her life
any good reason for economy or self denial,
Mrs. Williams had failed TO practice these
virtues, but had suffered the opposite vice of
extravaganza and self-induigence to grow
| rankly as offensive weeds.
Her demands on her husbands purse had,
therefore, always been large, and they steadi-
ly increased until he was learning to hold
the strings more tightly, and to question and
! object whenever she made what he thought
large acquisitions. Thus alterations were
constantly engendered, and at times there
was strife between them. Roughness on
his part and petulance on hers, often came
/ in to help the work of arrangement.
| Twenty years of false life. twenty years
in which two married partners, warm and
| loving at the first, went on steadily growing
cold toward each other through the interpo-
siton of sordid and worldly things-twenty
/ years of home intercourse but rarely
| frightened by loves warm sunshine break-
/ ing the leaden clouds of care and folly
what sad heart history is here And is it
not the history of thousands of our over
business men, and their thoughtless, unsym-
| pathizinI wives. who seek outside of hearts
and homes what they can never find-,hat
| tranquility Of soul after which all aspire, but
/ to which SO few attain Alas, that it is So.
All, that we could write, from he nceforth,
better record Of Leonard Williams and his
wife. That we would tell you, how growing
at last weary of their vain existence, they
turned back, athirst for The pure water whose
sweetness had once refreshed them, finding
again the fountain of eternal youth.
i But it was not so. Habits of thought and
feeling were hardened into that second
nature which is rarely broken up. If, occa-
! sioualiy, the restless heart returned along It's
| life journey seeking for some of the lost
flowers and vanished fragrance, their sweet
ness Was perceived only as the dim light of
a dream; not real enough to inspire an effort
to seek restoration. And so they moved in
coldness OF twilight. Age found him sor-
did, irritable, unhappy man and she ner-
vous, restless, vain, disappointed woman.
There are such, readers, all around you.
! But keep your heart warm. Do not suffer
it TO grow cold towards yoer wife or husband.
Shut out the vain things If the world. The
home-loves are warmest, the home-lights
brightest, and they grow warmer and bright
er with years, if you feed them with the
nure oil of unselfish affections.