Dallas herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1849-1873, 1867-07-06
Husbands.

on our shores, CAL h'lih
From tho Austin Gazette
...H Husbands. poo
What do we know about hus-
bands2 A great deal 70 be sure.
We know all about them. We have
had nothing to do all our lives but
to watch them. A husband is o
man who has n vito, 1t will be
seen that wo commence our subject
in a very methodical manner, first
defningit This may be thought
very unnecessary by some who will
suppose that every body knows
what n husband is, If not what he
ought to DO. We think this doubt
full. A graf many married men act
as if they were ignorant of the fact
they are husbands, and, as such,
are under obligations not. affec-
ting single men. They evidently
do not know tho meaning of the
word themselves. From their con-
duct you would suppose they mad
no wives. Again, husbo.nd i'm
plies ono wife and no more. Who
would call the MorT.ons husbands
with three or four or forty scaled
feminalties living with them ? Are
they husbands? Not n bit Of it.
They are any thing else. The mar
riage of one man and one woman
efer the ordinance Of God consti-
tutes husband and wife, and itcre-
ates duties and responsibilities
which before had no existancee.-
The man solomnly promises in the
ceremony tolove, protect and take
care of the woman he holds by the
hand and cleave to her and her only
as long as they both shall live, and
that makes him husband, How
many Of them do this? How many
real genuine husbands are to-
be found among tho mon who got
married2 Very few, to their shame
be it spoken. Some of them fail to
love, some to protect, some to take
care of their wives. Do they love
them when they make no effort to
please, dress like slovens, exclude
them from their confidence, and treat
them as household chattels7 Not
much certainly, nor is it shown by
striving to make themselves more
agreeable to every other woman,
and particularly to their neighbours
wives. Do they protect them, when
they invite all sorts ofpeople to their
houses, or stay away, night after
night, at the grog-shops or gam
bling tablet? Woman is weaker,
not the less noble creation, and she
needs man to watch over and look
after her. Husbands should not be
away from their wives too much
nor too long. In thus doing, they
violate their marriage vows. In
stead of taking care of their wives,
furnishing them with the means Of
dressing, eating, drink ng and
sleeping comfortably in agood house
with decent furniture, some actually
permit their wives to provide for
them, give them board and bed,
coat and breeches to ware and even
their whisky This is shameful and
disgrace to manhood. What2 a
big, stout man, who will talk about
his being first made and in the i'm
mage of his creator, suffer lovely
weak woman, the mother Of his
children, to toll and worry for the
support of the whole family?
A husband, indeedl A mere hang
er.on, neither useful nor ornamen-
tai /; a deed weight-enough to drag
down any poor woman to her grave.
There are some husbands you can
never please. OF satisfy. L cir
wives dress too little or TOO much for
them-they 20 about too much or
not enough-they are too pious or
too wicked. When such an n Q
stays out at night, if the wife sits
up for him, she ought to have gone
to bed, and not wasted wood and can
Idles-if she goes to bed, she ought
to have waited for him, and had a
warm fire and good supper ready.
These husbands generally interfere
with the servants, the kitchen and
cooking. The coffee is to strong or
weak, the meat too rare or too
brown. Nothing is right. These
men complain because the children
cry, and get mad if they are WHIPPED.
They are n OF worthy Of having
wives or children. They are una
bic, to appreciate good things when
they have them. But these are the
very m n I o g. ct m arr led,
and, if Heaven, in its mercy, re-
Ii,,ves their unfortunate wives from
earthly trouble and take tn en-.
home. they straitway go and fool
others, and get new subjects to tor
ment and war out. Now we do
not assert that there are no good
husbands. There are great many,
no doubt, and we have kno " n
some. Every one that resds this
article will be an exception to the
bad ones, in his own oplniGn, ana
he will relish it very much and
say, go on and give it to the rasca,s.
They deserves IL richly. This hits
of neighbor A to charm. How
he will Vince under it. And, per-
haps, neighbor A will think the
same of him and enjoy it as much.
How the ladies viii like it is doubt
full. Perhaps they viii viii deem
il family matter, about which We
have no business to say anything.
TIE EVENING BEFoRE WEDDING.
all tell you, continued her aunt
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