The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1866-12-21
NUMBER 81.
Truths for wives.

enee is much greater than her husbands;
for the first cause-mutual love and coni-
dence-being granted, the whole comfort of
the household depends upon tribes more
Immediately under her jurisdiction. Iy her
management Of small sums, ber husbands
responsibility and credit are created or de-
stroyed.
No fortune can stand the constant leak
ages Of sxtravaganees and Encouragement;
and more is spent in trifes than women
would easily believe. The enc great ex-
pense. whatever it may be, is turned over
and carefully reflected on. ere incurred;--.
income is prepared to meet it-but tits PEN
MES imperceptibly sliding away which do
mischief; and this the wife alone can stop,
for it does not come within a mans prov
ince, There IS often an unsuspeoted trife
to be saved 10, every household. "a 49,.
Il is not in economy alone that the wife's
attention is SO necessary, butin those NICE
ties which make well regulated house
An unfinished oTuet stand, a missing key,
a buttOnless shirt. soiled table cloth,
mustard pot with its old contents, sticking
hard about it, are really nothings; but saoh.
can raise an angry word or cause discom-
fort. Depend upon it, there's q great deal
of domestic happiness in well dressed
mutton chop, we'll made biscuit, q nice
beef stake, or a tidy breakfast table. Most
men. grow sated of beauty, tired of music,
are often too wearied for conversation, how
ever intellectual; but they can always ap-
preciate a well swept hearth and smiling
comfort. ~. 80 r.. ..f--trs 81 4st,.,f
A woman may love her husband devoted
ly--may sacrifice, fortuue, friends, family,
county, for him-she may have the genius
Of a SaPphO, the enchanted beauty Of sn
Armida-but, melancholy fact, if with these
she fails to make his home comfortable, his
heart will inevitably escape her. And wO-
men5live SO entirely in the affections, that
without love, their existence isvoid. Bet
ter submit, then, TO household tasks. how
ever fepughant they may be to your tastes,
than doom yourself to a loveless houe.-
Women Of higher order of mind will not
run this risk they know that their femin
inc, their domestic, are their first duties.
sPEAuNo Of the railroad appropriation
made By the present Legislature. and after
noting the amounts appropriated to each
road in East Tennessee, Broa0nlos0's Whig
says: ....r.-.s..t ~.
"The bill aPpropriates 10 all sixteen hu's-
dred thousand dollars to East Tennessee.
This, added to what was given ia a for
mer bill falls but little short of three mil
liens. East Tennessee cant complain of
the present Legislature being wanting in
liberality." ,-.-.. ......-..-. ..s.....-.... 4.
certainly not; .--------ll---. .rr55aa
QUEER COUNTRY Is CHIEA,----A country
where roses have no fragraRes and Women
no petticoats; where the laborer has DO
Sabbath and the magistrate no sense of
honor; where the roads bear no vehicles
and the ships no keels; where the old men
fly kites aud the needle points to the South;
where the place of honor is the left hand
and the seat Of intellect is in the stomach;
where to take off your hat is an ipsolens
gesture, aud to wear white garments is
mourning; which has a literature without
an alphabet and language without gram
mar.
How to Save your Teeth.
Mr.. Beeeher, who is something Of phy-
sio;an a. we'll "a oaoloaisE favrnae aditor