The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1862-05-14
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PATENT SERMON.

WILL give you sermon to-day drawn from the
following text:
"Thc lady who beside a tub
Is not ashamed to wiring or rub
Or. on the floor ashamed To scrub.
And cares not who calls in to see, ~
Her labOring so industrously.
My hearers 80 it was ordained Lx4f"o,or- nat
by the devil that every .mnySt Ion,d bovc wife
and every woman <ssyfi'..nJ ,.i,,, h,,,,,o,,1 l.,
God made two of the genus homo
of opposite sex. The one he elected positively,
and the other negatively so that when they prex-
imatcd, their mystical effect would be produced one
to another. The how, the why, wherefore, no
tai has yet been able to understand neither is it
necessary that he should. That the sexes natur-
ally approach AMI adhere to each other, through
some mysterious influence is ndspntablc. Let it
suffice that it is so. When the Creator made
Adam, he saw that il was not good for him to be
alone, 50 he mcsncrized the man 49, dug IA rib from
his side without particle Of pain - and made
from it Eve, to be helpmatc for him. as well as a
fancy plaything. Now without knowing what
love was, they couldnthcp loving the moment they
sat their eyes upon one another lie cast sheep
eyes at her in the distance, and she threw some
killing glanccs on him in return that fired his SOUL
AMI set his heart vibrating like spinster upon IA
chcsnut rail in sou'-wcstcr. They finally came
together Just as natural as two apple seeds swim
ming in basin of water. But situated as they
were at first and having little or no manual labor
to perform - Eve could b. of little utility to Adam
and Adam couldn't be a great deal to Eve. Still
they loved and were ready to assist each other in
case of any emergent casualty, and so when they
found that aprons necessary they set to, and
N,itb tbn
Eve only understood plain sewing - she knew
nothing about your embroidery lace working, and
piano playing, and cared not about it. The people,
were perfectly happy in their rude state until the.
old serpent got among them and even then they
stuck to each other through thick and thin
through all the bramblng vicissitudcs Of life -
from Paradise TO Perdition.
My brethren since YOU know that marriage is
divine institution, and that every Of you should
have wife, what kind of rib would You select :?
A pretty little useless doll, or woman big and
spunky enough to wrestlc with a bear and come
off first best imagine you would not care much
for either extreme but you would look for person.
al charms. you foolish dolitors at the shrine of
beauty! Know you not that thousands of husbands
arc made miserable by handsome wives, and that
thousands are happy in the possession of homciy
ones? Homely without, but beautiful within
Alas! what is beauty? 1t is fswcl that willis
and whithcrs as soon as it is rlucked transent
rainbow feeting meteor; dcccitful will of the
wsp submatcd mocnShinc.
The kind Of a wife you want is of good morals
and knows how to mend rowscrS; who can recon-
cie peelng potatoes with practical or fashionable
picy who can waltz with the churn dash, and
sing witk the tea kettle - who understands broom
ology, and the true science of mopping- who can
knit stockings without knitting her brows, and
knit up her husbands raveed sleeve Of oral 49, who
prefers sewing tears with her needle to sowing tares
of scandal with her tongue. Suchis decidedly bet
ter half. Take her up. if you can get her lcther
bo up to her elbows in the suGs Of the washtub, or
picking geese in a COW stable.
My hearers My text speaks Of a lady at wash
tub. You may think it absurd but let me assure
you that a female can be a lady beside a washtub
in kitchen as much as in drawing room or in a
parlor. What constitutes Il lady? 1t is not a cost
ly dress, paint for the checks, false hair or still
falscr airs but il is her department. her intellcc
tual end ,wments, and that evidence Of virtue
which commands the silent respect and admiration
of the world. She would he recognized as a lady
at once - il matters not where or in what situation
she were founl whether scorching bed bugs
with red-hot poker. or hollcring halleluiah at a
Methodist camp netting All that l have further
10 say, fellow bachelors, is that when you marry.
see that you get lady inside and out - one who
knows how to keep the lot a boiling, and looks we'll
10 her household. So mote Il be.