North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-02-05
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If there be anything in the wide world
and renders him Indifferent to his domestic
freside and the wife he has promised to
cherish, it is whining woman. TO hear
day after dat-in the morning when he
sits down at the breakfast-table, and in
the evening when returning from his
wearisome days labor-piteous complaints
like those uttered in dolorous accents;
"Oh, l have such headache I" or "my
back aches so can scarcely stand" wo'd
require a virtue superior to that found in
any being "made little lower than the
angels to withstand them without finch
ing from the course Of strict recttude.
The institution Of marriage has in view
the improvement Of the earthly condition
Of those who respect it. No person, man
or woman, ever contemplated marriage,
without expecting to better himself or
herself. A man who in freak of fancy
for pair of melting black eyes or
pretty face, hastily allies himself for life
with sckly wife, is certainly much to
blame if he exhibits a coldness of manner
toward her. He should have been moro
discreet in his choice. Rosy checks and
dancing health are very attractive to the
unmarried, and after marriage constitute
one of the strongest links that bind hus,
bands love. When year or two of tina.
close intimacy only found in welded life
has dispelled ali the romance that either
party entertained on the threshold, and
one realizes that the other is an invalid,
how much of bitterness is added to his or
her cup of married existence be other
things ever so abundant and luxurious in
her palatial abode. 1t may be laid down
as maxim, that in no other condition is
health so necessary as in the married re-
lation. Young man, if you would be hap-
py in your home: if you would avoid
companion with disposition to "whine,"
and thus render you permanently uncom-
Portable. see to 1t that yeur wife is a
healthy buxom lassie to whom headaches
and backaches are maryels of other folks
pretens ons.
Miss Muloch, in speaking OF the yindu-
ence OF women in society, uses the follow
ing language:
"Oh if gloomy women did but know
what comfort there is in cheerful spirit
How tho heart leans to meet sunshny
face. merry tongue. an even temper, apd
heart which, either natural, or, what is
better, from conscientious principle, has
learned to take all things on the bright
side, believing that the giver of life being
all-perfect love, the best offering we can
| make to him is to enjoy to the full what he
sends of good, and what he allows of evil
like child who, when once it believes
in its father, believes in all the doings
with it, whether it understands them or
not"
That husband who has perpetual
Sunshine in his home in the shape of
cheerful wife should be one of the hap
piest of men, and if he is not, Providence
has been too kind to him.
Everybody seems ready to give advice
to women. The above is sample of tho
way it is expected women can be scolded
or ridculed into a compliance with every
wish of her "lord.' 1t may be we'll enough
for men to hint to ''wifey" how to he sweet,
but what the old maid, Miss Muloch.
knows about a husband or marriage we
cannot imagine. 1t may be by instinct