Staunton vindicator and general advertiser. (Staunton, Augusta County, Va.) 1858-1860, 1859-01-22
sTAUNToN AUGUSTA COUNTY VIRGINIA JANUARY g. 1885,
Praise Your Wife,


| Praise Your Wife.
Az, praise your wife and not By words
only Why do you praise any one to please
him, make him happy? Well, whom do
you more wish to please and to make happy
than her on whom your own happiness de-
ponds? So, praise your wife, man! For,
| Just in proportion as you rendor her hap
Ipy, you increase your own happiness. =
Why not have your house filed withS sun
shine and beauty all the time, when you can
do it by kind feelings and pleasant words,
rather than shut out the cheering and health
giving light by clouds of churlishness ?
Your feelings may be good enough, and you
may have enough of them; but how will
they benefit your family while they are hid
den I? What good does the gold long as it
is concealed in the mine? Bring out the
glittering metal, circulate it; its ring will
make music in the house. if it be blended
with other tones. If you can smile, smile
on your wife. You would be indignant, as
you ought to be, if told you did not love
her; then make yourself agreeable to her;
when you praise her, do it in adelicate way
let her not think others more refined in heart
than her husband. How came she to love
you at first-to marry you? Did not you,
by your words aud demeanor, show an ap-
probation Of her excellencies, thus praising
her? In this way, you attracted her, till
she became, with you, one in heart and in
terest, one in purpose. Having drawn her
to yourself by the exercise Of attraction,
strengthen the union by continued exer-
else Of the same affinity. Praise your Wife3
Whom should you praise, if not her How
delicious, once, came to her ears words Of
praise from your lips How she treasured
them in heart, and lived on them! Does
she less need the oppression Of your love 2
Neger!a Words Of affection are as necessa-
Try to the perfection Of her happiness, to
positive enjoyment, as they ever were, and
from you more SO, as to you only she now
looks for them If she ever seek them from
others should your praise become lndlffer-
emit to her-blame your own remissness.
You are objectionable if you do not prevent
her love from declining by the same means
which attracted her to you. Ifyou respect
her rights, regard her feelings, and give
her the attentions she ought to expect as
well as to receive from you, your children
will render her loving obedience, and be
ready to pate her wishes. Praise your
wife, then, and not by words only 80
deys Ladies Book.
LAND SINNERS. This term applies to a
class Of men-farmers shall we say ?-who
want to get the increase Of land without
making any compensation for its use.
| They may be found in almost every sec
|tipn of the country. If they crop their land,
the product is all sold and carried off the
farm. Not the grain simply which they
raise; but the straw, if the crop be barley,
wheat, or oats, and the stalks, if it be corn.
Only cattle sufficient to meet the necessities
of the family are kept on the farm. These
consists Of two or three half fed COWS. as
many lean pigs, span or two. Of horse; Or
in their, stead, the frames of one yoke or
more Of oxen. What manure they make is
|all required for the garden, or for one or
two acres Of corn ground.
With this management, the land very
soon fails to yield its increase Of grain, and
then Che grass is tried. For year Or two
a tolerable crop is produced; but this, too,
lis sold and carried off the farm, and asmight
be expected, very soon the hay crop is too
inconsiderable to meet the exposes Of the
farmers family and grain growing is once
more tried, but with no better success than
formerly. Under such management, it is
no wonder that the man concludes that his
land is too poor to pay for cultivation, and
he sells at sacrifice and "moves out
West. 4s. ,4 sa
Such a man is land skinner and
whether among the rocks Of New England.
Tor the deep, loamy soils Of the West he is
the pirate who without compensation, ap-
|propriates to himself the product Of mother
earth o s.- s
| A ToucHINo INCIDENT One of the sad
dest stories that we ever read was that of a
little child in Switzerland, a pet boy, just
las yours is, reader, whom his mother. one
bright morning, dressed in beautiful jack
ct, all shining with gilt buttons, and gay as
a mothers love could make it, and then per-
mitted him to go out and play. He had
scarcely stepped from the door Of the Swiss
cottage when an enormous eagle snatched
him from the earth and bore him up among
the mountains, and yet within sight of the
house of which he had been the Joy. There
he was killed and devoured, the eyre
being at a point which was inaccessible to
man, SO that no relief could BE Afforded
In destroying the child, the eagle SO placed
his gay jacket in the nest that it would fut-
ter, and the sun would shine upou its love-
" trimmings and ornaments, For years
| it was visible from the lowlands, long after
the eagle had abandoned the INST. What
Isight it must have been for the parents of
the victim.
HAPPINESS FOR WORKING MEN. - The
situation or social position of the poor-and
by that word we mean the laboring popu-
lation-is by no means so deficient in the
means Of happiness and comfort as many
are led to believe. ..The mechanic" said
Lord Byron, land working classes who can
maintain their families, are, in my opinion,
the happiest body Of men. Poverty is
wretchedness; but it is perhaps to be pre-
ferred to the heartless, unmeaning dissipa-
ton Of the higher orders" A popular au-
thor says IL have no propensity to envy
any one, least Of all the rich and great;
but if Iwere disposed to this weakness, the
subject Of my envy would be healthy
young man, in going forth in morning to
work for his wife and children, or bringing