The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-01-08
Questions aud Answers.

From Noah'S Times and Messenger
for this week we take the following
questions and answers:
QUEsTIoN-Doy you think Greek aud
Latin are protita BILE studies?
ANswER-NOt very profitable. We
regard the study. of the dead languages
| in these living days very much in the
light OF so mnCh time wasted.
QUESTION.-Being somewhat of a YER
dant yOuth-periectly unsophisticated
-claining my native soil among the
| ground, 1t is hardly strange that can
not reconcile with my own the idea in
tended TO be conveyed by the word flirt-
| alton, as not unfrequently used by la
dies. Explainit, ii you please.
ANSWER.-Somebody has said that
Irritation Is to love what tippling is to
deep drinking. In filtration both
parties just atfectto sip of the intoxica
ting draught. each hoping that the
other Will get too much. In real affect
ion both imbibe SO greedily that they
both expect 10 get in the same cOndi-
ton, and the one that keeps soberest is
chided for want of love bV the one
that Is thoroughly inebriRted.
QUEsTION.-''In last Sundays Issue
you speak justly, though severely, OF
those women who take means to rid
themselves of their innocent offspring,
But would ask you are their hus-
bands free from blame7 1 think not,
Do they, by kind and sympathising
words, or by loving hands, try to assist
tie poor delicate weary wife who. ear
ly and late, bends o'er the cot OF her
sickly, restless darling2 1t is she who,
like the midnight sentinel, walks her
dreary round without a hope of rest.
With her there is no ten hour system.
Years of this, and then she vunishes, a
thing of the pAst.' Her task is done.
Where, in the meantime, is the hus-
band2 Playing the agreeable to some
blooming and dashiDg widow, perhaps,
who has not those little drawbacks and
has time to be agreeable; or, after
spending pleasant time abroad, he
comes home and sleeps undisturbed till
morning. For, is he not 'business'
man2 He must have his rest. Then,
refreshed, he goes TO his business
again, which keeps him sometimes un-
til the wee small hours of the morn
ing. Do you know any such men7 1
do"
ANSWERING dare say that we could
point out Just such men, but their wives
do not happen. to be the ones against
whom we leVelled our reprehensiOns
last Sunday. There is much truth in
your picture. Too much suffering falls
to the lot of patient, ferbearing, ever
toiling women, for they do not ALWAYS
choose wisely when they wed ,'and they
often find themselves egregiousIy de.
ceived when they think they have
chosen discreetly. But all men are not
bad, neither are all women. There are
as many married fiirts, perhaps, among
the ladies as among the gentlemen; and
how few wives, comparatively speak
ing, remember that if they do not make
homo attractive to their husbands,
those husbands will be apt to go to
some spot which Is made attractive for
them, and, once alienated from the do
mestic circle, farewell to domestic hap
plness. The class of criminal wives
we alluded to last Sunday are rarely
poor, rarely suffering. They are COM
monty light-hearted, frivolous minded
women, who enjoy society too much
too endure responsibilities that keep
them at home, and only measure their
affection for their husbands by the ca
pacity of those husbands purses to sus-
tain wife's idle extravagances.