The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1865-02-03
REVERENCE IN A WIFE.
BY AUGUSTA MOORE.

"WeH Katie, so YOU expect 70 marry Edward
after all. l thought you were only flirting
with him.
"Ihat was what intended, Mary, but some
how the artiul fellow has cheated me into a.
greeting to have HIM"
II thought how all your grand talk about
freedom and never bending your neck to any
mans yoke would end Ills the old story
Not 50 I'm not going to wear the yoke =
Edward is 10 obey me- He will know. He
las hardly any will bat mine now. and don't
pretend tha; nc ever shall have. He don't pre-
tend to oppose me in anything. wouldn't be
hired to have him were he to presume TO treat
me as Helen Norman's lover treats her, and
told her He is always telling her Of her
faults"
They have agreed to kindly tell each 9th
er Of their taolts, and help each other to over
come them. think this IS most excellent
way"
"WelI / don't an free enough to tell
Ell. his faults, but he would not dare 10 return
the compliment. 1t would make me angry in
minute In fact; Mary, / think am for
tunate girl Ifave found man with plenty
Of money, gentleman of yielding disposition,
very generous, who worShips me, and is will
ing that should always have my own way,
who is in short, unable to hinder me from hay
ing IT."
''And do you think that you can have the
blessing Of Sod on your marriage when ut is en-
tered upon in spirit utterly the reverse of
| what it equires? l suppose you admit that the
Bhn is authority. Consider what its teach
ings are"
81 dot says ''Submit one to another"
suppose ! shal, submit 10 Ell part Of the
time it would be only fair
Kate the Bible says .sWiyes submit YOUR
selves unto your own husbands as ,nto tie Lord:
for the husband is the head of the wife, even
as Christ is the head of the Church. There
fore as the Church is subject unto Christ so lei
the wives be unto their husbands in everything,
and let the wife see that she reverences her hus-
band" How dare you, presumptuous girl,
resolve to trample on Gods arrangement and
his law You may be sure that trouble is be-
fore you if you GO forward to the marriage al
tar with such Il spirit as now animates YOU
As for Edward he is infatuated indeed if lie
gives his honor and his happine SIS into your
hands
Katie, angry at such plain talk, abruptly
turned from her companion ard walked rapidly
away
1nl expected marriage took place. For a
few months Edward walked in trance of ser-
uous and Imaginative bliss; then down he came,
and never more did he ascend the E)iis OF JOY.
He was, as Kate had said, quite unable to con-
troll or to cope with her. He was too gentle,
and he loved her too tenderly. She had over
him the immense advantage Of loving him very
little. She could tear has heartstrings every
hour. He could scarcely stir hers at any time.
You perceive, good reader, that she 'had"
him.
Children were born TO this pair. Kate man
aged them something as tigress might manage
her Young Edward was allowed 10 have no
word in the matter In few years the poor
man, crushed and oyerborne, died. Kate was
provoked with him for this piece of indepen-
dent action She liked him; she made him
very useful. She had not thought he would
go without leave But he did it. Kate lord
ed it foI few years more till her children be-
came too strong for her. Then they, albeit
they knew not what they were doing, avenged
their father They broke their mothers spir-
il and her heart and yon bent, gray, mum
bling old crone in the almshouse is all that
remains of the once lively and beautiful Kate.
She sowed the wind; she reaped the whirl-
wind.