Smyrna times., 1861-03-14
From Arthur's Home Magazine.
a Word to Husbands.
BY ELIZABETH.

aIsn't this beautiful little picture, dear.
and just the thing to fill up that corner =
Cousin LstIie gave it TO me; it is her own
painiing, aud had it framed yesterday"
% don / know" replied the tender spouse,
IL can't see any use in any such things, for my
part, everything costs so much money | think
i the dollar you gave for that, had been spent
for a bushel of wheat. or something really USE
faL il might amount TO something"
@Oh, James, how can you talk so = and the
sensitive wife choked down the happy feelings
she was trying 10 share with him.
Mary Gray il was a sweet name, and one
that James Brown hid often admired, when it
Belonged to the young girl, beautiful and glad
in her sunny youth, whom he had wooed and
wOa; but now, time had faded the full round
hheek, and scattered the burrows on the open
erox, and the silver threads twined with the
still glos-y waves OF her hair told palmer thu n
wSfds, that the cares and conflicts Of life had
LEFT waymarks which could never be effaced. -
Bot, we're these the reasons why James Brown
did not appreciate the feelings of wife =
"a 20! that could not be but sometimes she
us-d 10 think, (hOw enUld che help IL y of the
tender lo,k aud ner he always used TO her
befOre her marriage, and while she was a
yOuag wife. As 10 err is human" she was
doubtless sometimes IN error. She might have
mistaken his perpexIties in business and alb
sorbing cares for col1ness and neglect; he
night not have dreamed, as she chartably be-
IeVed he did not, (whlle she failed to draw out
his better hearty that he was crushing heart
full Of desires for sympathy and love. When
she found that what she craved was denied her
here. she went 10 her Father on high, and
there poured out the wailings of her soul, and
II. gave her the peace that passeth human
bnderstanding;" but our faith is sometimes
dun, aud we sail cling to outward objects, fol
the comfort they alone can never gIve-ther
1t was. perhaps, that she more than ever desired
her husbands sympathy.
Do net let me give a wrong impression oil
James BroRa, for in all truthfulness would
say he was al heart kind man, but be had not
been educated 10 depend upon the little mani.
fes,aiions Of love which a sensitive, affection
ate heart, always Graves. lie loved his wife
and children, and the pleasant home she made
for him, where ne always, excepting occasion.
ally, whes absent on business, spent his even
IDgs; and he could not see why it was, MARY
was always desiring so many Ie0der words
% great an amount, as he thought, of extra ap
probation. Wasn't he always at home
dlda't he provide literally for his family an
did be ever grudge the spending money tina
vas usually ready for herr" No-he dill non
OF these thIngs-yet there were times when
little clOad overspread their Preside, an
everything wore a di and sorry lock.
TRe honey -moon'' lasted as long wit
them as it does with most married pairs-the
oil the energies Of the husband were turne
towards securing a livelihood. Faithfully the
labared-he and his wIfe-and all their effOr
we're blessed, till they had abundance. To NEE
al the expenses Of " rainy day." Jas. Brow
ss is common with other men, became gradu
ally 50 absorbed in business, that his desire fc
laying by" came home with him 10 b
meAis-sat by him, as he read his paper
stared him in his face, when he wanted TO fro
Ie with his ehidren-and, finally, sometime
stepped between him and the loving words
osed his wife. He didn't always think, as bl
"ness pressed aud hurried him-hOw much Il
AaPPiness OF loved ones depended upon hit
houghis, looked when not spOken-tend
aeis that am9uRt to nothing. excepting 10 no
sho crave them. and whose happy home The
help 10 make up. James Brown, with
manly, striving heart, forgot this but the
came time when sickness and misfortune la
h'm upon bed of suffering. and he then
sired the little attentions he had not thong
% gse-snd they were ready for him, too
Tor the wife who had longed for, and crav
'hem IN vain all her life, was by his bedsid
always ready to minister TO the wants of
aeaEl, as 10 those Of his body he saw her III
10 the true light, RnG he blessed God, with
coal tull Of gratitude, for the true friend W
ma been with him alike in prosperity end a
sefs'ty-so that they both had cause TO a
kaosledge that their last days were their b.
Gays and their evening of life was gilded
Tue rays Ofa bright aud cloudless sunset.