The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1870-02-03

returned.
"Thero il is one would think !
made no return for the paltry amount |
am obliged to beg. | can call it by no
milder name ; yet TO another person il
is n pleasure to open your purse for
double the sum ask. Yet you expect
me to suecumb to fate quietly"
d" | give You all you ask but money,
aud have but little of that"
My friends gave me all that you
do, and even more, and | gave them
nothing in return to you | give all
of your home comforts. make the
best use of everything. Things that
were not required Of me at home, and
those would not do for my own mother
| do for you, and what is my reward !?
| have food to eat, and perhaps, after a
good deal Of fault finding, | get a pair
Of shoes and a calico dress year. No
one else would do for you what do
for five dollars week, yet you weekly
refuse me one whilst you are away at
your work earning money, am at home
working for what 2 You come home,
count your money, and replace it with
never a word Of money to me. Aud
any man who will strive to make his
wife dependent on his bounty, deserves
not the name"
There is no use getting warm on
the subject. got what you seat for.
What more do you want p
Nothing at your hands | shall
cease to respect you if you follow this
course. | cannot help it you even
find fault with the expense Of my going
home once year. Those among whom
my lot is placed are nothing to me. |
respect them as friends but you for
whom | have sacrificed so much to
strive to make me a dependent, then |
cannot help the longing desire for my
past positiOn--for dear friends and the
home lcit-for u mothers hand to be
laid on my aching head. | often ask
you to 40 me a service you promise,
but do you always perform | have
known you to refuse to do some little
chores for me, and an hour afterwards
to do something at the request Of
ncighbor far more laborious. Would
that ncighbor do for you what | do!'
" Well you are hard to suit. Sup.
pose | gave you u dollar every time you
ask me, how long should have one 2"
Suppose you gave one, or even two
dollars week voluntarily, | should
have no need to ask you and should
feel far more independent. You would
win the warm love aud gratitude of my
heart, would smooth away all di.-culties,
and bind me to you, whereas now you
weln me from you, and are doing that
which you
Will blush to own
When your own spirit stands before the
throne"
"l'Il give you fye dollars if you won't
lecture me any more
% do not want to lecture, | only
want to show you the error you have
fallen into before it becomes confirm
ed habit. don't want you to do
cheerfully for another what is a hard
ship to do at home. You know it is
said "a lion abroad, lamb at home
and rice Uersa. You are only doing
doing what hundreds of others in our
midst do; it is SO much easier to tread
the broad way than to walk in the mar
row path. There are SO many solicita.
tions Of pleasure; but kindness at home
makes the sunshine of our lives; it
will find its way to the hidden treasures
of the hardest heart, when harshness
and tyranny will seal them forever
kindhess will purchase peace aud con.
tentmeut aud love. We all long for
what life cannot give. Our aspirations
are infinitely beyond our attainments,
but Twill try and make my demands
to correspond with your means of graf.
flying them.
" Sunshine and shadows ever attend
US Let us keep in sunshine a rain.
bow Of promise spans our future, and
we can walk amid roses and shun
the storms.
''Do not be angry with me for this lee.
ture as you are pleased to term it.
The words have uttered have flowed
from heart full to overfowing, could
not help it, and | want you to think of
what | have said, tor you know it's
just"
I" And give you dollar next time
you ask it ?"
{" Yes and not ask what I do with it,
either"