Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1871-03-03

j, reality itself in the shape Of her HUSBAND
with ia CO Of bright, enraptured happiness
r "My dearest wife" be murmured, folo
ing her tenderly in hi arms, "the time ha
E has come for me to restore to you what yo
f gave up SO cheerfully for my sake year
ago Welcome, oace again to your home
, Alice p
"Home p she repeated, gazing up int
bis eyes, as if she scarcely credited the evi
dence of her own senses
eyes, home indeed have purchased
Beech Grove, Alice and furnished it just tt
suit your taste My cherished little wife,
am rewarded for the years of economy, the
extra work-the self oeuial [ have beer
obliged to- practice" sNe
''Charles," she whispered, growing scar
let and pale alternately, twas it this that
occasioned your absence last week p
81 was determined to bring you here,
Alice, when I took you away from that
cramped little farm house There have
been countless delays, Vulnerable Difficult
! ties but have conquered them all Wei
come to your home. my precious wife r.
And as he took her ouce more to his heart
Alice Lynde's happiness was mingled with
the keenest pang Of remorse she had ever
known
Sitting in the handsome, familiar r1oms
that evening, with the moonlight streaming
through the stained glass windows, her
children asleep in the nursery that had once
been hers, and Charles beside her, Alice
vowed to herself the best resolution a we'd
ded wife can make-never, never again to let
the least shadow come etween herself and
her confidence in her husbands love.
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yVoman's influence OH ssHOMle.''
How often have you noticed, patient read
er, in entering certain houses, that the
rooms were filled with an undesirable air Of
ease, pleasentness, sociality, life, light and
home-likeness. The furniture might not be
especially remarkable the walls neither COW
cred with expensive paper nor the ceilings
trescoed the carpet very likely mere
three-ply, and the mantel pieces of wood in
stead of marble and yet, somehow, you
were glad to find yourself there, and going
away, carried with you bright memories
and cheerful spirit. If you stopped to
analyze the causes OF your agreeable sensa
tons, you will have remembered there was
plenty Of light, few paintings, Or at least
engravings, and good engraving is much
to be preferred to poor painting some
books, an above all, supplementing all, and
instinctivcly discorned as having gathered
and arranged all, an intelligent, frank,
motherlv or sisterly woman, 'contented wi
little, and canty wi mair," whose presence
was magnetic, whose whole atmosphere was
Joyous and refined There might not have
been veal b, but assuredly there was good
breeding, cultured mind and sweet dis
position.
Home That is what woman makes it.
Man may be active o. indolent, sullen, or
social, good, bad Or indifferent, tie home
vi be pervaded, ruled, dominated by the
spirit OF the wife. Children will love it Or
hate it, gladly remain at or return to it, or
fly from it on all possible occasions, just as
it is enlivened by sympathy or rendered
gloomy by care or morosenres. The most
tickle and thoughtless man often, and the
jaded, over urdened, yet kindly man al
ways turns with irrepressible yearning to the
seclusioa, the rest, the free intercourse OF
home. There, if anywhere, he finds inno-
cent and substantial enjoyment there, if at
all, repose which is yet happiness, Woman
Kingdom, if it be circumseribed one, may
Re made equally dvspotic and alluring gov:
erned at once with an absolute sway, and
an irresisti' lie attraction. Il mother Eve
was all-potent for evil, her daughters are
equally powerful for good. 1t is the feml:
nine influence which preserves the world
f,om grossness and corruption, in 50 far as
it is saved therefrom, and it is the daily ex-
ample and exhortation of good and discreet
women which prevent the subsidence of the
great majority Of mankind into seusuality,
selfshness and vice. If womankind some
times mistake the when and the how, that
is simply saying that even the best and love-
liest sex is not yet, and as a whole perfect.