The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-04-21

baoco, and iewelry, and beverages, and
"oyer wear" and canes, and card cases,
and ali manner of folltes, which entail
domestic disquietudes, and lead 10 home
ldiscomforts. which 1t is vain to expect
that servant girls or seFYant men can
remedy.
The truth OF the matter Is, nothing
but economy and hones1 VOTE VIII SCI
cannot do all lis own work Is at the
marcv NJ servants. Self-reliance and
saIf-Seln and self-sacrifice are the only
means which families can successfully
summon to their extricatton from the
intolerable burdens and annoyances
and discomforts which now so generally
take the heart out OF domestic life; and
Il ia time it were understood that, all
things considered, it is the embrowned
hand of liberal industry, and not the
IiIv hand of selfish idleness, which in
the end grasps true happiness.
| DOMESTIC PICTURE THAT MANY WILL
RECOGNIZE.
In closing this article, we Will remind
the reader that the last mentioned truth
is often beautifully exemplihed on our
frontiers, where many young couple,
with Int little capital save their love
and their industry, and with no library
but their Bible and their newspaper,
resOlutelY begin their wrestle with ma.
ture and with poverty.
The husband assails the forests and
the soil, while the wife makes the cabin
musical with the hum OF household In.
dustry. The years roll on. Cares and
children come, and so do neighbors
and prosperity, and all are welcomed
in the name of the Lord.
In due course a frame house takes
the place of the log cabin; village
springs up on the borders OF the old
farm; and the once wild acres have
now become so valuable that the brook
which meanders over them seem to
give forth Pactolian murmurs.
The daughters come back from
boarding school, and the sons from COL
lege; and the girls marry, and go away,
and then come back again to show
father and mother their grandcn1ldreh;
and the boys-One of whom 1s lawyer,
and another preacher, and third q
merchant, and a fourth doctor, and
all on the road to prosperity and
honors-also come home to compete
with their sisters in the baby show.
And year after year, in the genial
summer days, they gather from many
city at the old homestead; and the
venerable mother, whose whole life
has been one of unselfish devotion, and
who is yet stout Of hand and fresh in
heart, sits in the midst of her children,
whom she has brought up in the nur'
ture and admonition of the Lord, and
who now arise and call her blessed.
And the sons 60 out in the meadow to
try their now unparalleled muscle
against that of the white haired old
man, who loves TO show how good a
days work there is yet in him; and as
they contend in loving rivalry the new
mown hay breathes incense upon them;
and the wild bees drowsy hum mingles
with the ringing music of their sharpen
ing scythes; while the setting sun, as 1t
sinks below the western trees, smiles a
beuediction upon them, and with ca
ressing beams turns the sweat drops
standing on their brows into glistening
diadems of toll.
And the domestic felicities and home
comforts ofthat family, or of the mem :
bers thereof, are never in any wise left
to the mercy of servants or the vicisst-
tudes of intelligence offices.