Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1863-04-09

lent cautions and counsels from Halls
Journal of Health. They were writ
ten expressly for farmers, but will ap-
ply as well to husbands and wives,
not farmers. We commend them to
the consideration Of all husbands
Let the farmer never forget that his
wife is his best friend, the most stead
fast on earth, would do more for. him
in calamity, in misfortune, and sick
ness, than any, other human being,
and that on this account to say moth
ing of the. marriage vow, made be
fore high heaven and before men, he
owes to the wife Of his bosom con-
sideration, a tenderness, a support, and
a sympathy, which should put ont of
sight every feeling of profit and loss
the very instant they come in collis-
ion with his wife's welfare as to her
body, her mind, and her affections.
No man will ever lose in the long
run by SO doing he will not lose in
time, win not lose in dying hour, nor
in that great and mysterious future
which lies before all.
There arc "scasons vEin the life Of
women which, as to some of them, so
affect her general system, and her
mind also, as to commend them to our
warmest sympathies, and which inn
peratively demand from the sterner
sex the same patience, and forbear-
ance, and tenderness which they them
selves would want meted out to them
if they were not of sound mind. At
these times, some women, whose uni
form good sense, propriety of deport-
ment, and amiability of character
command our admiration, become So
irritable, fretful, complaining, quar-
relsome, and unlovely as to almost
drive their husbands mad their con-
duct is SO iuexplicablo, so changed, so
perfectly causeless, that they are al
most overcome with desperation, with
Encouragement, or indignant defiance
of all rules of justice, ofright, or of
humanity. The aneieBts, noticing this
to occur to some women for a few days
in every month, gave it the appel!a-I
ton of "Lunacy," Luna being the
Latin name for moon or monthly. Some
women, at such times, are literally in
sane, without their. right mind, aud,
as it is an infiction of nature, fan, be
it from any husband, with the feelings
of a man, To fail at such times to treat
his wife with the same kind care, and
tenderness, and plying love that be
would show to ademented only Child.
The skillful physician counsels in such
cases the scrupulous avoidance of
every word, or action, or even look
which by any possibility could irrtate
the mind, excite the brain, or wound
the sensibilities, and, as far as possi-
BILE, to yield gracefully and good ma
turediy to every whim and caprice, to
seem to contfol in nothing, to yield in
all things under these calming inhu-
ences the mind sooner resumes its
wonted rule, the heart gusbes ont in
new loves and wakes up to a warmer
affection than was ever known before.
A misunderstanding of the case and
an impatient resistance at all points
has before now driven women, to des-
peration, to lifelong hate to suicide,
or to fate worse than ALTO peer
through the iron bars of lnnatic's
cell for long and miserable lifetime.
Let every husband who has human
heart mature the subject well.
In these aud other peculiar states
Of the system, arising from nervous
dcrangement, women are sometimes
childish, and various curious phenomc-
ma take place :. there is an inability
to speak for a moment or month, the
heart seems to "junp up IN the
mouth" or there is q terrible feeling
of impending suffocation at other
times there are actual convulsions, or
an uncomfortable bursting out into
tears these and other disagreeable
phenomena are derisively aud unieel-
ingly called y",hysterics" or "nerv-,
,ousness." but they are no more un-
real to the sufferer than are the pains
of extraction for nothing but tooth
ache" These symptoms are not un-
frequently set down to the account OF
perverscness, when it should no more
be done than to call it peryersity to
break out in uncomfortable grief at
the sudden information of the death of
\ the dearest friend on earth. The
course Of conduct to be pursued in
cases of this kind is at once the die
tate of science, of humanity. and Of
common-sense, it is to sympathize with
and soothe the patient in all ways pos
siblc, until the excess Of perturbation
has passed away and the system
calms down to its natural, even action.