The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1860-01-12

maa who lived with his wife for over if
ty years and never left her without the
kiss and the ''good bye, DEAR
Some husbands shake hands with their
wives as fast as possible, as though the
effort were something that they were
anxious to forget, holding their heads
down and darting very quickly around the
nearest corner
Some husbands say only, DWELL, wife
I'm going" and start from the word 'sgo"
which comes to them from some unknown
back retreat
Some husbands, before leaving home,
ask very tenderly "What would you like
to<-sss for dinner, nay dear?" knowing
all the while that she will select something
for his particular palate and off be goes,
Some husbands will leave home with
out saying anything, but thinking good
deal, as evinced by their turning round
at the last point cf observation and wav-
ing an adieu to the pleasant faces at the
window.
Some husbands never say word; rls-
! ing from the breakfast table with the
lofty indifference of lord, and going out
with heartless disregard of those left
behind. 1t is fortunate thing for their
wives that they can find sympathy else
where.
Some husbands never leave home with
out some unkind word or look, apparent
| ly thinking that such course is neces-
sary to keep matters straight in their ab-
sence.
! Then on returndnQ---
Some husbands come home jolly and
happy, unsecured by the world some sui
ky and surly with its disappointments.
Some husbands bring home newspa-
! per or book, and bury themselves deep
ly in the contents
! Some husbands are called away every
evening by business or social engage
ments some doze in speechless stupidity
until bed time.
Some husbands are curious to learn Of
their wives what has transpired through
the day; others are attracted BIZ nothing
short of child's tumbling down stairs,
or the house taking fire.
Depend upon it," says DR. Spooner,
" that home is the happiest, where great
kindness, and interest, and politeness, and
attention are the rules, on the part of
husbands-of course all the responsible
ty reSs with them-and temptation finds
no footing there"
Mr- Beecher ON FauIt-Finding.
In recent discourse on the text "Bear
We one another's burdens" Henry Ward
Beecher said
"The spirit of this passage forbids that
we should make the failings of other men
a source of amusement to ourselves
and now | am coming to it. [ will ad-
nit that there is playful good humored
kind of bddtnage that Is harmless. The
apprehension or exposition of mans
faults in light, genial spirit, is often
the best way of telling him of them. I
do not, therefore say that all innocent
rallery and good-natured apprehension is
20 be disallowed.d On the contrary, it
may be allowe. 1t must be genuine, how.
ever, producing good and not pain. But
he that makes the mistakes, the foibles,
the faults, the misconceptions of men
the ten thousand infelicities of human
life-the subject matter of comment, of
jest and social enjoyment, aud of person
al amusement, is simply barbarian. He
is not a Christian he does not belong to
that category. 1t is one of those things
that are monstrous in the sight of God.
Could you do it to your child ? A moth
er may tantalize her child She may
frolic with it. She may do thousand
things with it, causing it to hover vibrat-
ing between a tear and smile, some
times on one side and sometimes on the
other, just fora moment; but she instant
ly presses it to her bosom, and covers its
face with kisses, so that there are no
shades left upon its spirits. And there
is such thing as innocent raillery. But
to watch to see what is awkward in 9th.
ers ; to search out the infrmities of men !;
to go out like street-sweeper, or uni
versal scavenger, to collect the faults and
failings Of people, to carry these things
about as if they were cherries or flowers,
to throw them out of your bag or pouch,
and make them an evening repast, or
MONDAY meal, or the amusement of So
cial hour, enlivened by unfeeling criti-
cisms, heartleSs jests and cutting sar-
casms; to take man up as you would a
chicken, and gnaw his flesh from his very
bones, and then lay him down, saying,
with fendish xultation--"There is his
skeleton" this is dcvilish! You may
call it by as many pretty names as you
please, bnt it is devilish! and you will do
nothing worse than this when you 90 to
hell-for you may expect to go there if
you have such disposition and do not
change it. Talk about cannibalism -
Cannibals never eat man till he is dead
They are nearer Christ than you are, a
good deal"