The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1865-03-23
RICHMOND. WAYNE CO., ND,

for their simple discharge--Over doing
in one direction must be compensated
by under doing in another She cannot
pamper Peter without pInciing Paul -
Much that you laud as virtue lament
as vice. You revel in the sakes and the
pastries and dainties, and h.ast the skill
of the housewife; and indeedher maryels
are featiy wrought. sweet D the taste,
and to be desired if honesty come by !:
but if there has been plundel and extor-
ton. if it is a soul that fixes, in the
pastry, if it is heart that isambrowned
in the gravies, if leisure an freshn ess
and breadth of sympathy am keen en-
joyment have been frittered way on the
fritters, and simmered away o the sweet
meats, and battered away in tn puddings,
give me, pray you, Dime of herbs
johnny cake was royal fare Walden
woods when king prepared the ban
quet and presided at the bord. Pea
cocks, tongues are but comma meat TO
peacocks.
The pate de toie gras is nonstrous
dish: A goose is kept in somevarm con-
fined place that preciudes anyextended
motion, and fed with fntteniY food, SO
that his liver enlarges throue disease
till it is considered fit to be mde into a
pie,-a luxury to epicures, bn,a horror
to any healthful person Just such
goose is many woman, cohhed by
custom and her consenting will in warm,
narrow kitchen, only instead of hr liver
it is her life which she herself mxes up
into pies but the pastry which yu find
so delicious seems to me disease The
ancients buried in urns the ashes their
bodies: we deposit in urns the aaes of
our souls, and pass them aroundlt the
teatable.
WIVES THAT ARE STRANGERS.
Husbands do not talk with their yves.
If neighbor is married, they telbf It,
If battle is fought, or village brned
down, they communicate the fac, bit for
any interchange Of thought or eminent
or emotion, far any conversatn that is
invigorating, inspiring, that causes
thrill or leaves q glow, how ten does
such thing occur between husnnd and
wife ? What intellectual meetinis there,
what shock Of electrisities when q
definite domestic question is be de
cided, the wife's judgement nay be
sought. and that is better than solitary
stumbling on, regardless of fr views
or feelings but this sort of bad and
butter discussion of ways and cans is
not the gentle, animated play otonver-
sation, not that pleasant spark which
enlivens the hours, that trustf conf
dence which lightens the hes, that
welding of weapons which strgthens
the arm, that sweet, instructive, alf-un-
yelling which increases respt and
deepens love and fills the heart WI mex
pressible tenderness. Yet theirs no.
body in the world with whont is so
important for a man to be innately
acquainted as his own wife, whi such
intimate acquaintance is the eeption
rather that the rule. Every O sees
them going on each day in his ovpath,
each with his own inner world topin-
ions and hopes and memories,ne in
name, miserably two in all else Men
often have too much confidence their
measuring lines. They fancy tn have
fathomed souls depths when th have
but sounded its shadows. Thchink
they have circumnavigated th,iobe
when they have only padded in ave.
They trim their sails for othseas,
leaving the priceless gems of th'own
undiscovered. To many man oyage
of exploration would bring sucrich
returns as persevering and afecnate
search into the resources of theeart
which he calls his own. Many anaany
a man would be amazed Mt learniithat
in the tame household drudge, the
meek, timid, apologetic recipient his
caprices. in the worn and fretful ialid,
in the common place, insipid dcstic
weakling, he scorns an angel unares.
Many wife is wearied and neeted
into moral shabbiness, who, righ en-
treated, would have walked sis'and
wife Of the gods. Human nature GER
tain directions is as infinite as the zine
nature, and when a man turns awarom
his wife, under the impression he
has exhausted her capabilities, ansust
seek elsewhere the sympathy anom-
panionship he Graves or go Witt it
altogether, let him reflect that the clces
are at least even that he has but eaus-
ted himself, and that the soil lich
seems to him fallow might in othernds
or with a wiser culture yield mor1en-
teous harvest.
WHY MEN MARRY.
Men do not marry for the purpe of
making women happy, but to make en-
selves happy. A girl looks forwi in
her marriage to what she will do fher
husbands happiness. A man, to-hat
he will enjoy through his wife mirtra-
tions. s'He needs a wife" say theod
women who were born and bred in ese
opinions and do not suspect their oss-
ness. 1T is a grand good match I,n't
know anybody that needs = wife ore
than he," said one of these at tile
gathering, speaking of a recent marlge
why 2 iBnocently questioned anher
woman. who was supposed to have sue
what peculiar views concerning ese
things. 20, you-never- want anybo. to
marry burst out chorus of vols
which was surely very broad infence
from one narrow monosyllable. But
why does he need a wife ?' presistahe
questioner. "For sympathy and m
panionship," triumphantly repliedhe
first woman, knowing that to suehlo-
tives her interlocutor could take mex
ceptions. But third woman, not XIV
ing that any thing lay behind tse
questions and answers, and feelinglat
the original position was but feebly nm
faioad hv such ,,pSphsrsuf;al fhingaa