The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-10-17

cradle and store; to be protected ana :
sbolterod. and loved after some fashion,
even though it be q rude one. were
such the bargain called marriage theFe
never could have been Ruth, q hachel,,
n Lady Franklin, or an Ola 1ashiohoa
mother ut all. The world would have
known nothing of the treasures OF afiec-
ton and ceutleness,of fortltudo aud iaith'
that have turned novels into glorious al
tars 81 accented sacrifice. and made us
believe that on the ladder the Patriarch
saw in vision, agomen might lave been
ooinr and coming, aud no one couia
Enow them from tho angels.
Women neither want more nor gram
der duties than they have. 50 far from
that we reverence the wonderful eiits OF
head and heart that enable them to pre-
form the work that Heaven clearly as
signs them, and we marvel what te'nale
AIexanders there must be among them'
that having folded tLis world in Their DO
SONS are signing for more worlds to con-
oner, We DO net refer to the crazy,
restless creatures that kick up their hoeis
in .roformatorv' conventions, hike stock
inrs upon clothes-line in q breezy DAY
but t. those poor women who yet aoldo
ut home. and pine and droop, and dc
nIore the feeble part they play in life
It is a bad thing to be out Of flour or out
Of fuel but it is worse thing to be out
Of heart. Let the husband or the child
of one these willow women be laid pale
and helpless, Ike founding, at Death
| door. and it really lets sunshine IN upon
her: loving care aud loving kindness are
! kindlcd anew; she grows strong to watch
and work and pray; their is something
alive and moving in. her left breast; tor
heart has como again, and with 1T nope
the charmer, and she says st IS true, as
the day is, SO shall thy strength be-, and
so, after heavy night Joy cometb in the
morning. Many drowsy, grieVing wo-
man has been iostled from Prosperity's
lap upon the bare ground, and like the
tabled thing of old, hes renewed her
strength at the touch of earth-her
strength, youth and beauty.
Nothing to the world are they Moth
tlerhusbands,' are they? True,
re stupid fellows, sometimes;
ng 50 and awkward to ap-
he latter g. K as easily as their
loT 70 pfeceiv~, design they
prove they DO not sa idea does
;yes-Nature did noo kulEs,
be sure thaS the
,,oka r.. way through their thick o
- = toton from the head down to th~
,eart where it remains be low frost iof-
WOW True, the world is huge b"oei,
~ bo IRE that you, my ",Iio"' az
,us ~ . .o,se Of the notes for that SWEEP
"rn!sn o"'. 49, ~etilnea hear, and sigh ana
muse ~ ",, 'I Iste, tuat yon too might be
n the choir. ,,o41a;, about
While many women r. tatlns,-
the olive branches around II. t.oeo,.15
houch we have seen but few vii, -
70 ersuaded that they had a sprig
pare after all--they are others again
Who c1yet the burden tho dove Of OIL
,oro TO the ark in the evening; an oil
caf or so; and covet in vain, for the
70 babe l.. the house to help zly, up
Der to pro, erb; plenty Of basket and G
tore but no cradIo-tlat little bark q
hat rocks at its moorings on LIES cas- |
ern shore. They want something to S
are for, and do for, they say; some |
hing to love, ana then indeed, would
Jeremiah gave place to Isaiah, and the
l;sconsolate would sing like Miriam. f
They forget, we fancy, that there are {
20 greater babies ia long clothes than f
heir husbands; none that need doing {
md carrying for more: or who would
az it more nearly to a grateful heart, IN
he rude or the silent ways Of their own, ,
han those same babies in boots; that
hey can do for them what the world has
lot for sale among all its wares; they c
an be patient with them, cheer them,
md make them have faith in themselves.
And even this is worth living an labor
ny for: it is light hand or the should
,r, that is more than the laying on of a c
Kings sword before battle;it is hapo in S
ls heart that keeps warm through the 7
,urfew tolls, to be opened and kindled !,
oncw in the morning.
Man generally lacks sympathy, and for |
hat very reason he needs it. Woman
las an abundance of it, and for that t
,ery reason she is help meet for the
nan: the alliance clips, linn more than
re can tell he world, and saves her
rom what we would not describe if we {
could. 1t furnishes a ready and homo S
market for the sympathy that else would {
yet it strongly around herself drifting in <;
upon her heart woes that, as if they were
bread cast upon the waters, she is sure
o find after many days
Thore is a doctrine that should be !
written over all our lives, mems and wo- :
mems alike: let her who is laden with
grief find somebody else to grieye for,
md so shall her own sorrows be lighter;
ct her mourn for the flower that's fad
ng, for the year that is going, for the
friends that are dying. She need not 90
rom home to find objects indeed. There {
ire books closed but not sealed, even {
.here that only wait her touch to lie
open at familiar places. If she is rich ,
IN children, they will pick up the crumbs
Of her sympathy that nothing be lost
But if she his none, why there is her
husband, the greedy tough fellow ;ho will
accept all ofthe portions articles she has ,