The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1860-02-02
Love n WIFI and Care fer a wife.

Love Wife and Care icF "iies
wish every husband would copy in
to his memorandum book this sentence
from recently published work "Wo.
man must be constituted very differently
from men Aword said, a lure writ
ten, and we are happy; omitted, our
hearts ache, as if by great misfortune.
Men cannot feel it, or guess at it; if they
did, the most careless Of them would be
slow to wound us SO
The grave hides many heart which
has been stung to death, because one who
might, after all, have loved it after GER
tain careless fashion, was deaf, dumb, and
bVad 10 the truth in the sentence we
have Just quoted, or if not, at least i'm
patient with regard to it. Many men.
marrying late in life, being accustomed
only to take care Of themselves, and that
10 the most erratic, rambling, exciting
fashion, eating and drinking, sleeping
and waking, wherever their fancy, or
good cheer and amusement, questionable
or unques,ionable, prompted, come at
last, when they get tired of this, with
their selfish habits fixed as fate to---mat
rimony. For while it is novelty -
Shortly, lis strange as irksome, this al
ways being obliged to consider the COM
fort and happiness of another To have
something always hanging on the arm,
which use to swing free, or at most, but
twirl "a cauc. Then they think their
duty done If they provide food and
clothing possibly from harsh words
Abs il? Listen to that sigh US you
close the door. Watch the gradual failure
of the eye, the paling Of the check, not
from age-she should yet be youns-but
that knawing pain at the heart, born OF
the settled conviction that the great hun
cry craving of her soul, as far as you are
concerned, must 90 forever unsatished
God help such wives, and keep then
from attempting 10 Stake their soul
thirst at poisoned fountains.
Think you, her husband, how little
kind word, smile, a caress to you, how
much to her. If you call these things
"chiIdish," and beneath your notice, -
then you should never have been married
There are mCnyw!lo shonld remain forever
single. You are one. You have no right
to require Of any woman her health,
strength, time, and devotion, to mock
her viii, this siadowy unsatisfying re-
turn. \ new bonnet, dress, shaw !, a
watch, anything, everything, bu, what a
true womans heart must crave-syIlpa-
thy, appreciation, love. She may be
rich ia everything else, bn. if she be
poor in these, and is good woman, she
hOd be;tsr lic. .....r-.
There are hard, unloving, cold mon
strosities of woman { rare exceptions
who neither require love or know how te
give it. We are not speaking Of these
That big hearted, loTing, noble men have
occasionally been thrown away upon
such, does not disprovc what We have
been snying. But even man thus stu
ated has greatly the advantage Of wo
man in a similar position, because, owe,
the needle, woman may think herself
into an insane asylum, while tho active
out door turmoi! Of business life is a
least sometime reprieve to him.
Do you ask me, care there no happy
wives ?" God be praised. yes. and glo
rious, loveab.e husbands, too, who kuon
how to treat woman, and would hav,
her nel;aer ivol n,r drudge Almos
every wife would b. {. good and ,.app,
wife were she onis loved enough. Lee
husbands present ana prospective, thinl
Of this. -Loajsrihe Jou5npl.