Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1863-11-06

tions in Winncbago county. The lands in
this county are little nearer the railroad
market.
In my final report shall probably hayo
occasion 10 present some additional memo.
randa in reference to tie perfected list, and
and also some suggestions to the Trustees of
tho Agricultural College concerning the lands
and their management. - .s
2aa Cbmn.issfoMsr
THE ART OF wIFE PREsEKv1NG.
BY GAIL HAMILTON. f4t
A woman must make herself obvio.ss 10
her husband, or he viii drift out beyond her
horizon. She will DO to him very nearly
what she wills and works to bo. II she ad-
apis herself to her children ana does not
adapt herself to her husband, he will fall in
to nm arrangement, aud the two will fall
apart. do not mean that they will quarrel,
out they Will lead separate lives. There will
DO domestic alliance, but no marriage. A
predominant interest In the same object bind
them together, sfter fashion; but marriage
ls something beyond that. If woman wish.
es and proposes to be the friend Of her hus
bandit she would be valuable to him. not
simply the nurse Of his children and the d.
rectrsss of his household, but az a woman
fresh and fair and fascinating, TO him, intrin.
sically lovely and attractive, she should
make an effort for it. Il is not by any means
athing that comes itself, or that can be left
toitself She must read and observe. and
think. and live up to it. Men, as q general
thing. will not tell you SO. They talk about
having the slippers roady, and enjoin women
TO be domestic. But inen are block kheads--
dear, aifscticnate, and generous blockheads
benevolent, larss.heartsd, and chiyslrous
kind, patient, and hard working but stupid
where women are concerned. Indispensable
and delightful as they are to real life, pleas.
ant and comfortable a. women actually find
them, not one in ten thousand but makes :
Ounce Of himself the moment he opens his
mouth to thcoriae about women. Besides
they have an axe to grind. The pretty things
they NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., and coffee, and
care, and courtesy ought, indeed, to be done,
but the others ought not 10 be left undone:
And to the former, women seldom need to
be exhortcd. They take to them naturally.
A great many women bore boorish husbands
with fond little attentions more than would
,appreciative ones by neglect. Women do
mesticatc themselves to death already
what they want is cultivation. They need
70 90 stimulated 70 develop large, compre-
hensive catholic life, in which their domestic
duties shall have an appropriate niche, and
over which those duties shall spread and ocs
cupy the whole space.
There are women less foolish. They see
their Husbands attracted in other directions
more often and more easily than in theirs.-
They have too much sterling worth and pro.
found sense to become vnlrarly jcalou.r
They fear nothing like shame or crime bnt
they feel the fact that their own prsoccuna.
tion with honiely household duties precludes
real colnpsnionshir the interchange Of emo.
tons, thoughts, sentihehts, living and pal.
pable and vivid contract Of mind with mind;
Of heart with heart. They sec others whose
leisure ministers to grace, accomplishments
piquancy and attractivencss, and the moth
flies towards the light by his own naturo.-
Because he is wise and yirtuous and hon.
est moth, nc docs not dart into the fame
Ho does not ever scorch his wings, He
tever thinks Of such tlilhg. lie merely
circles round the pleasant light, summing him.
self in It without much thought one way or
the other, only feeling that /. was pleasant.
but meanwhile Mrs Moth sits at home IN
darkness, inending the children's clothes,
which Is not exhilarating. Many a woman
who feels that she possesses her husbands
affections, misses something. She does not
secure his fervor, his admiration. His love
y honest and solid, but little dormant, and
therefore dull. II does not brace, and tone.
and stimulate. She wants not the 10 We only.
put the keenness, and edge, and flavor of
tho love and she suffers untold pangs. II
know Tor have seen it. II is not a thing
10 be uttered Most women do not admit II.
even to themselves but il is revealed by tho
iiit OF tho eye-lash, by quiver of the eye,
oy tone Of the voice by trick OF the in.
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