Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1864-12-20

aud consequent change Of man $ own self.
He is made over new.
But his W 70 m0Ils on in the same place
Dark care sits behind her at breakfast and DIM
ner and eupper The walls are lestoonel with
her cares Tho floors are covered with them AZ
thick as the dust in the Interpreters house
He shakes off the dust from his feet and goes
home h'r home is in the dust, What wonder
that it srangles and,su iIocates her?
Moreover, man occupation has uniformity,
or rather unity, HIS path lies in one line (;
sometimes he has only to walk mechanically
along it Rather stupid but not wearing work !;
br generally, il he had been man upon whom
It would have worn he would have done some
thirg else always he has power to bring every
thing 10 bear on his business. it is mental
labor, be has the opportunity OF solitude, or
only such association us assists. His helpers
and all with whom he il concerned, are mature
intelligent, trained and often ambitious and
selfrespectful and courteous. He can set his
fulcrum close TO the weight, aud all be has u
10 is 10 bear down on the lever.
The wlle's assistants, if she has any, are I'M
speakaby in the rough, and little children make
all her schemes gang a-gley." The incau-
tlOus slam OF a door will bhatter the bestlaid
plane and the stub bing Of a chubby toe sinks
her morning into the midday. Children are to
q man adjustment, delight, juyenescence, a
truthful rendering OF the old myth, that wicked
kings were won't to derive a ghoul-like strength
by TRANSMISSION Of the blood of infants The
father has them for a little while lie irolics
with them. lie rt0ces over them. They ara
beautiful and charming lie Is new to them,
and they are new to him, and by the time the
navelty IS over it Is the hour for them to 20 to
bed. lie feels rested and refreshed for his con-
tact with them. They present strong contrasts
10 the world he deals with all day Their trans.
parency shines sweetly against its opacity.
Even their little wants and vanitel ami bickeg-
ngs are to him only interesting developments
OF human nature Ills power Is pie sed with
their dspsndenCc h.s pride aitters itself with
their future bis tenderness soltens To their
clnging his earthliness cleaves away before
their innocence and he THINKS his quiyer can
never be too iull Of them
This is the poetry, aud he reads it with great
delight; hut there is prose department, and
that comes to the mother She mas had the
cherubs all day, and she knows that the trail
Of the Ient is over them ALL She sees the
angel in their souls as well as he, often better :;
but she sees too the mark Of the beast on their
forehead, which he seldom discovers His
playthings are her stumbling blocks. The con-
stancy Of her, presence iorblds novelty, ard
throws her upon her inventive powers Tor re-
oaurces. All their WEAKNESS and iretlulness
and tumbles and aches are poured into her lap.
She has no division Of labor, no concentration
Of forces, no five or ten hours devoted to house
work, and two or three to her children, taking
them into her heart to do good like medicine.
They patter through every hour to stay her
from doing with her might any Of the many
things which her hands lind to do. Nothing
keeps limits everything laps over. God has
given her love 80 lnexhaustble, that, notwith.
standing the washings and wAIchings, the sew-
ing and dressing which children necessltate,
notwithstanding the care, the check, the pull
back, the weariness, the heartsckness which
they occasion, the " little hlndering things
are-my pen is not won't TO be timld but 1t
shrinks from attempting to say what little ones
are to mother. But divine arrangement does
not prevent human drawback and looking not
at inward sol4ce, but outward business, it re-
maus true that The business Of providing for
the wants OF family is not of that smooth, un-
cresking nature to the mother that it is to the
father. Let a man take Two or three little chill
dren-two or three Let him take one of
one, two, three, years Of age, to his shop, or
stall, or office, and take care OF him all the time
for a week, aud he will see what mean.
wONAS's CHOICE.
There is not one woman In a million who
would not be married, i'll borrow phrase
from The popular, pestileut patois, but trans.
figure it with its highest meaniag--il she could
get a chance How do know Just as
know that the stars are now shining IN the sky,
though it Is high noon. never saw star at
midday but | know it is the nature OF stars to
shine in the sky, aud Of the sky to hold stars
Genius or fool rich or poor, beauty or the beast,
il marriage were what il should be, what God
meant it to be, what even with the worlds pref,
ent possibilities 1t might be, i; would be the
Elysium, the sole complete Elysum of woman,
yes, and OF man. Greatness, glory, usefulness,
happiness, await her otherwhere but here alone
all her powers, all her being, can find full play.
No condition, no character even, can quite hid9
the CLEAN of the sacred fro but on the house
hold hearth it Joins the warmth Of earth to tho
hues Of heaven. Brilliant, dazzling, vivid. u
beacon and blessing, her light may be, but
only happy home blends the prismatic rays
into a soft serene whiteness that floods the world
with divine illumination. Without wifely and
motherly love, part Of her nature must re.
main uncl0sed "a spring shut up, fountain
sealed but thousand times better that i,
should remain closed than that it should be
rudely rent open, or opened only to be defled,
thousand times better that the yesal fire
should burn forever on the inner shrine, than
that it should be brought out to boil the pot.
But the pot must boil, you say, AMI so it must
but With oak-wood and shayings, not with beat
en- olive oil
WIVES AND COCKS
Cooking is the cook profession she ought
to attain skill, ami her employer has right to
require it, and as great variety and proiusion
OF dishes as he can furnish material for But
if he is not able to hire cook, and must depend
entirely upon his wife, the case is different.
Cooking is not her profession. Ii is only one of
the duties incident to her station 1t noun
bent upon her to spread plentiful and whole
some table. /, is eulpablo ineliciency to do less
than this. 1t palpable immortality to do more.
No matter how fond of cooking, or how skill.
lul or alert woman may be, she has only TWEEN.
ty-iOur hours in her day, aud two hands for her
work and one woman who has the sole care of
family, cannot, it she has aLy rational and
Christian idea OF lie, OF personal, household
and social duties, have any more time aud
strength than is sufficient for their simple die
charge Over. doing in one direction must be
compensated by underdoing in another. She
cannot pamper Peter without piuohing Paul.
Much that you laud as virtue, lament as a
vice, You rovel in the cakes and the dainties.
AID boast the skill Of the housewife, and indeed
her marves are ieatly wrought, sweet to the
taste. aud to be desired it honestly come by
but If there has been plumber and extorton' it
il isa soul that flakes The pastry, ii It's heart