Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-03-10
miscellaneous.
Fcom the Ohio Farmer.
TAKE YOUR WIFE ALONG.

Ing up at them, anu contemplating thelr meaning
Do not fall into the Pagan notion, that your
household was constructed on the principle that
you are TO receive ell the privileges, and enjoy
the opportunities Of modern life, while your wife
remains a fixture at home. The civilization Of the
old people was built up on this idea. Woman was
secluded, as neither deserving nor needing large
occasions for spiritual and social growth, while
mau ran about the world, approaching all that was
to be gained Of culture and power. But Christi
auity has flung open the door Of the Pagan home
torn away the veil from the face Of woman, ond
lsd her forth to receive the blessings of cOmmu'
nion with mankind. And the day has now come
when every true hearted, and large minded hus
band will take his wife along. Take your wife
along when you travel Cor pleasure. Don't she
need the glorious stimulaHt of autumnal land
scape and summer seaside ? Think you she car
live on the scenery Of four walls, even though re
peated through the !hree story palace, three par
Tors deep? Will not her spirit droop, and Der in
tellect narrow, and her spiritual nature get crowd.
ed into q conventional corner, if you keep her
lowering for twenty years about the same enclos.
uref Do not make her homo a pound, in which
she is driven like your 'estray !; or q jail, whose
warden is her own husband. Snatch her out of
the seductive monotony Of the family. Will she
be less your wife for floating over tho clear wa
tiers of Lake George, or gazing with you down the
abyss of Niagara, or taking her chances with you
when you 20 over the great West, from the head
waters Of the Mississippi to the Cuff If you
want a live woman in your house, take your
wife along when you travel. She will zee more
than ~you-things you will never see. She will in
terpret all things freshly and what a fund Of
pleasant comparison for long winter evenings,
when you can sit together, and call up the piano.
rama Of last summers journey, each by turns ex'
pounding. The best picture gallery is TO till The
soul oftcife, boys and girls ,oih the majestic and
lovely scenes Of American nature, by excursions l"
phich all are taken along.
Take your wife along when you 60 into socio-
ty. Look at those half dozen merchants, huddled
together in a counting room, w~ringing their tired
brains clear of all the juices of life, smoking fierce.
" till their den reeks with the fumes of tobacco,
sitting with feet higher than their heads. A fine
way for a party of civilized beings to spend an
evening | If you want to see your friends, of
change , invite them to your house, pih their
uiues, where you can't smoke, or sit like ourang
outangs, or cay or do any ridiculous thing, and
put all your heads and hearts together, and see
how much brighter balf o dozen homes are the
next day.
Look at that country bar.room, a pandemonium
Of stale tobacco, bad smelling w~hiskey, oaths and
ribaldry. If each farmer, who is sleeping him
self in folly there, had 'saken his wife along, what
= different place it would be. Go to no place where
you are ashamed to take your wife and daught-
ers.
Now and then ne 60 to a mans party. The
Hon. Mr.. Hawbuck receives his friends to meet
Judge Snodgrass or the Learned Society. for in
vestigsting tho habits of the Mississippi valley
musquito, is holding it's annual conventions; or Mr..
Smashup, the President Of the Grand Consolidated
r.. R., wants to run an engine through the Lesis-
lature. So we are invited to meet the assembled
masculinity of the place. Then we wander through
q fsverish grove of black coats and stiff c~hoakers,
every man encased in triple steel, knowing every
other man wants to pump some secret out OF him.
80 q corner, or tread on his sorest corn, (meta-
physically speaking,) going up stairs. Tramp,
tramp, tramp, tramp, for two mortal hours Sup
per, gentlemen What a rush Are these human
beingo going to sur per, or wild beasts going to
feed Look at that black ring of struggling mon,
sters. See that big fellow off in q corner, bending
ovsr his piled up platter, and slowing away its
contents like a famished OK! Wouldn't he 'catct
it, if he ate that way at his own dinner table
That's the Hon. Mr.. Daisy, whom you saw, thu
other night, so self sacrifcingly helping Miss Col
conda Spriggins to u cup of coffee. Would tn,
wretch dare to gobble his oysters that way, if Col
conda Spriggins stood byH Crash There zoe
the crockery I! Tom Dandelion, the model Of til,
boudoir, has made q plunge for a lobster, and oV
erset toe Rev. Jeremiah HOrpblOwer, who wa
backing out from a foray, in which he had esptur
cd a plate Of chicken and salad. two pigeons,
dish Of ice cream, and a dozen fried CLAIMS. Pop
pop There goes the champaign, dripping dowl
the tables. The Gro wd thickens food and drin!
mingle in one disgusting jelly, on the board
Look at that red face bull of Bashan, trying t
roar out q speech, on Woman, dear woman.
Does bis mother know he's out2' That's the pro
fessor Of Metaphysics aud Moral Philosophy, il
the Doouersyille Theological Seminary. WINS
would Mrs, and the half dozen Misses Professo
cav, If they saw their Pater famliliaS thus maxim
an ass of himself about the sex, in that half drunl
en- mobt Oh. why didn't those men take the
wives along, and keep down the menagerie ell
ment 10 that party What a different set of fe
lows would they have been tonight, with a hui
dreA sensible women to whip up their intellect
and keep down their aPpeiites, aud keep them Il
gentlemen they all can be on occasion.
Throw open the doors let the women see Il
inside of yo0r gatherings. IL a distinguishe
man, or a learned society, or a public functionar.
wants to enlighten your town, call out the wome'
10 entertain and be entertained. Put a wOma
opposite every msO, at a public dinner, and see
the turkey isn't better, the coffee more exhilara
ing, and the SPEECHES moro refined and witty
Don'I waste your time at clubs aud secret soei
tee, from which your wife is shut out. If tt
eiub ia good FOE you. it will DO better with be
II the society is entertaining. she will make
better. Msseeline secret societies are au ingel
tiee Of tie middle ages, when women we're a 8
cial H0neatisy. and are as Inappropriate 70 a
American Democracy IA The tOuSRaReat. or tL