Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-10-22
Family Government, No. 2.


"Are we sowing seeds of kindncss'
They shall blossom bright ere long,
Are sowing seeds of dscOrdl
They shall ripen into wrong.
Are sowing seeds of honor?
They shall bring forth golden grain,
Are we sowing seeds of falsehoodl
We shall yet reap bitter pain,
Whatsoee r our sowing be.
Reaping we, its fruit must see.
We can never be too careful
What the seed our hand shall sow.
Love from love is sure to ripen,-
Hate from hate is sure to grow.
Seeds of good or i'll we scatter
Heedlessly along our way.
But glad or grevious fruitage
Waits rs. at the harvest day,
Whatsoever our sowing be,
Reaping in its fruit must see.
While heavy responsibility rests upon
the wife in the matter of early culture OF her
children. and she is mutually and inseperably
a partner with her husband. Yet morally
and legally, the husband, the sovereign ruler
of his household, and it is at his peril if he
fails to rightly exercise his high prerogative.
will not attempt 10 even allude to all the
duties of the husband in this short article,
but viii. only hint at some things which is of
ten considered non-e essentials.
is. men do not al ways think. therefore, they
don't always consult the comfort of those
around them. They don't think how much
unnecessary work they make woman. by GO
ing into the house with muddy boots it
would take but moment ont side to leave
what they track over the floor or carpet. all
of which must be mapped. cleaned or scraped
and wiped off. When they go home at noon
or night, they often shut the door with slam
which leaves it half open, ana some one, (the
wife of course must shut it after you. We
will suppose it cold weather, your oyercoat is
is thrown on a chair your hat sails across the
room, to light upon stand or table or AS like
ly under it. Your gloves are thrown on ia
bic your neck wrapper hung on the first
chair, and you sit down on the next, in the
centre of the room. and all the family now sit
around you, and when you have to leave what
time there is Where is my hat, where is
my gloves, who carried of my Overcoat, (foi
of course your wife took it off the char.) ev-
cry one IN The house is put upon the witness
stand, and it is about as much trouble to get
You started as it is to launch steamboat.
hen, after you have gone. the yoman must
spend an hour more or less III picking up
things that you have used, such as books. pa
pers, comb hair brush DC. This is impaired
labors. or worse. petty tyranny. The trouble
is, you don't think. Cultivate your bump of
order, and have place for every thing and
! put everything in its place, and then you car
/ fnI it yourself The woman who takes care
of house has enough TO do. Git she does it)
without choreing after her legal lord
YoI expect her to keep the house neat and
clean Yor expect her hair to be always
smooth and her dress always clean. Your
! clothing always in order. the dust swept from
its thousand gathering places. and something
| go I'd to eat three times a day besides lunches,
and perhaps across baby to attend, for how
could it be anything else under the Circum-
! stances.
/ Man. if your wife be neat. yoa should be,
and il not. teach her neatness by your exam
| pie. Never sour your wifes temper by fault
! finding. if things don't suit your fancy. If
/ you have occasion to say anything by way of
reproof, talk to her. and don't talk at her.
Make no invidious comparisons between her
and your mother" for no woman can stand
| that.
Never pend an evening in saloon, when
| You can be at home, for your wife wants your
| company. it was for that. that she left her ia
/ ther and her mother, if she was sensible
! girl. don't forget these and many other small
things, and the great acts of your lite will fol-
low as a consequence.
The road 10 home happiness lies over small
stepping stones.
Slight circumstances are the stumbling
blocks of families.
WANTEp.-A man who is not for sale.
A man who is no est.
| A man who will condemn wrong i'm his
friend or foe, in himself as well as in anoth-
| er.
A man who will stand for the right if the
heavens totter and the earth reel.
A man who can tell the truth, and look the
world and the devil in the eye.
! man too large for sectarian limits, and
too strong for sectarun bonds.
A man who knows his duty and does it.
A man who knows his place and fills it.
A man who is not too lazy 10 work, nor
too proud to be poor.
A man who is willing to eat what they
yhaye earned, and wear what they have paid
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