Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-04-27

I wish every husband would copy into
his memorandum book this sentence
from q recently published work "Wo-
man must be constituted very different
from man. A word said, q line written,
and we are happy; omitted, our hearts
ache as if for great misfortune. Men
cannot feel it, or guess ut it; if they
did, the most careless of them would be
slow to wound US so." easz7k
The grave hides many heart which
has been grieved to death, because one
who might after all have loved it, after
certain careless fashion, was deaf,
dumb, and blind to the truth in the SEN
ltence we have just quoted, or if not,
was at least FESTIVE and impatient with
regard to it. Many men who marry late
in life, being accustomed only to take
care of themselves, and that in the
most cratic, rambling, exciting fash
ion, eating and drinking, sleeping and
waking, whenever their fancy, or good
cheer and amusements, questionable or
unquestionable, prompted, come at last,
when they get tired Of this, with their
selfish habits fixed as fate, to matrimo-
ny. For . while it is Q novelty. Short.
lily it is as strange as irksome, this al
ways being obliged to consider the
comfort and happiness of another. To
have something always hanging on the
arm, which used to swing free, or at
most but twirl cane. Then they think
their duty done if they provide food
and c!othirg, and refrain (possibly)
II from harsh words. All! it is? Listen
to that sigh as you close the door
Watch the gradual fading of the eye,
/ paling of the cheek, not from age
she should be yet young - but thai
!, Ignawing pain at the heart born of the
settled conviction that the great hungry
j craving of her soul, as far as you are
, concerned, must 60 forever unsatisfied
God help such wives, and keep then
/ from attempting to Stake their souls
r thirst from poisoned fountains.
Think you, her husband, how little
r kind word, smAe, caress to you
how much to her. If you call thos
o things "childish," and "beneath you
r notice. then you should never hav
: married. There arc men who SHOULD
s remain forever single. You are one
You have no right to require Of wo
:, man her health, strength, time and de
Is votion, to mock her with this shadowy
: unsatisfactory return. A new bonnet
IS dress, shawl, q watch, anything
7, everything but what Of all woman
heart most craves-sympathy, appro
d baton, love. She may be rich in CIV
erything else, but if she be poor i
# these and is good wife she had bette
die.
There are hard, untoward, ugly
d monstrosities Of women, rare excep
a tons, who neither require love no
t, know how to give it. That big-heart
IS ed loving noble men have OCCASIONAL
IL been thrown away upon such, does no
: disprove what We have been saying
:. But even a man thus situated has great
k ly the advantage of woman in sim
liar position, because, over the needle
:" woman may throw herself into tn
If insane asylum, while the anxiety C
nj turmoil Of business life is at least
- sort of reprieve to him. Do you as
ID me, care there no happy wives ?''-
!. God be praised! yes, and glorious
re- loveable husbands, too, who know ho1
to treat woman, and would have he
n neither fool nor drudge! Almost ever
" wife would be goo and merry wifi
were she only loved enough. Let us
= husbands, present and prospective
think Of this.-London Journal.