Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1871-06-16
who Make Good Wives.

who Make Good Wives.
To be good housekeeper requires educa
ton and practice but if woman's hear
is in the work she will soon learn, if neces
sity places the duty before her
When the comfort and prosperity of :
loved husband render it necessary to econo
mizc and live to the best advantage with
small means, devoted wife will turn hel
thoughts and care to the duties of her home.
The help of a good, careful prudent house.
keeper, enables man to advance his busl-
ness prospects more than anything else a
woman can do.
The superficial accomplishments of a
boarding school miss are nothing compared
to a practical education in all that pertains
to making home attractive, and sensible
men know it.
It is very imposing to witness the males
tic sweep of yard upon yard Of expensive
silk founces and laces into parlor, but,
young man, it requires large income to
support such style.
It is delightful to talk with young lady
who knows French, and all the latest novels,
and to have divine creature dispense her
best skirmishes Of flirting with her eyes,
smiles and fan, but, young man, there oft
is but little heart or sincerity in such
practised charms. A girl who has only
common school education, and the accom-
plishments taught her by loving mother,
IF cooking and all other domestic duties, will
be more likely to make you good wife.
She may not have the most polished ad-
dress She may not be able to entangle
you with battalions of arts and wiles with
which petted fashionable belle surrounds,
and captures beaux, but she will prize the
love Of an honest heart more, and in truth
and sincerity devote her life to requiting the
life, to requiting the loves and kindness given
her. ....
If your income be only few hundreds a
year, fashionable devotee of style and
heart smashing will in few years fret her
self into miserable Disconnected wreck, and
be dead weight upon you while a fresh
hearted, domestic girl will develop into
blooming matronly woman of sense and re-
sponsibiity Exchange. .-so
Ehe Warm Hand of Sympathy.
Till we have reflected on it, we are scarce
ly aware how much the sum of human hap
piness in the world is indebted to this one
feeling sympathy. We get cheerfulness
and vigor, we scarcely know why or when,
from mere association with our fellow-men
and from the looks reflected on US of glad
ness and enjoyment. W. catch inspiration
and power to 60 on. from human presence
and from cheerful looks. The workman
works with added energy, from having 9th
ers by The full family circle has strength
and life peculiar to its own. The substan-
tial good and the effectual relief which men
extend to one is triAing. It is not by those,
but by something far less costly, that the
work is done God has insured it by much
more simple machinery. He has given the
weakest and the poorest the power to centri-
butte largely to the common stock of glad
ness. The child's smile and laugh are
mighty powers in this world What be-
reavement has left you desolate, what sub
stantial benefit is there which makes condo
lences acceptable? Il cannot replace the
loved ones you have lost. It can bestow
upon you nothing permanent But warm
hand Las touched yours, and its thrill told
you that there was living response there
to its emotion. One look, one human sigh,
has done more for you than the costlies1
present could convey.
A WHOLESOME REBuKE.-.A good story
is told of the celebrated Whitelock and bis
Servant who appears to have been able te
preach on occasions as we'll as could his
master, and sometimes to his MASTER
When Whitelock was about to embark al
Cromwell's Envoy to Sweden, in 1856 he
was much disturbed in his mind as he restet
in Harwich on the preceding night, wher
he reflected on the distracted state of thu
nation A confidential servant slept in al
an adjoining bed, who finding that his mas
ter could not sleep, said i:
"Pray, sir, will you give me leave t.
ask you question p
Certainly"
"Pray, sir, don't you think God govern
ed the world very we'll before you cam
into it 2"
'Undoubtedly."
"And pray sir, don't you think he vii
govern it quite as WE'LL when you are gon
out Of it p
Certainly"
"Then, sir, pray excuse me, but dom
you think you may as we'll trust him t
govern it as long as you are in it p
To this question Whitlock had nothin
TO reply, and turning about, he soon fel
asleep. Great men are proably quite likel
to underrate Gods ability, and to everest
mate their own. .,t..