The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1872-12-19
Bear 1t Like 4 Man.

There used 10 be some meaning in this
advice ] propose in this year OF our Lofd'
1871. that ii be amended after this fashion ::
Bear it like n lc0D1nn-
The papers are full of accounts OF men
who. having failed in business, or been
crossed in love, or having had their shirt
bosoms ironed the wrong way, or ialiin@
~ see the same number of plums in the
coniugal pudding that their mothers used
TO nut in have fled from wives ana children
into the far unknown, where shirts ana IUd-
Now when / look about me, and see the
number of patient, toiling women, hoping
against hope every day, and bravely strug-
. cling on, with only God and their own con
sciences as witness or encouragement OF
their quiet heroism, feel "a though it were
about time the above proverb should be eN-
punl ed from books of advice
" Bear it like a mani" Did you ever see
n man sick : Did you ever listen to his
ssoh's!1 and ''ah's Z" and 'dear mes" at
passing twinges of pain that would never
have elected wink from a-woman,s eyes
Did YOU ever trot up and down stairs, and
into NV @entleman's chamber, to bring this
footstool, that pillow, and this blanket, ana
that comforter, to be rejected rs soon rs
brought9 Did you ever pull down curtains,
only TO pull them up again; open doors ohly
to close them bring newspapers only TO
have them thrown down; cook meSses only
to have them declined-and all for little
bilious dcran cement, that no woman would
think of mentioning!
" Bear it like man '. Ask any dentist
whose teeth he has bad the most trouble in
filling or drawing, those of men or women
Ask any physician If he ever knew one OF
his sex who didn't expect to eat ana drink
all the same, spite OF pill and potions; who
didn't want every medicine sugaT-coated,
in short, who wasn't utterly unbearable and
incapable of anything but groWl, eSpe-
ciallv if his tobacco was cut OFF, until he
was on his legs again, when the first use lac
made Of them was TO leave the VIE Who
had been worn out with his childish com
plants to take care of herself, while he
went off with Jack Somebody ito take i
little relaxation.
am of the same mind as the woman who
when hearing the sutferings of our Pilgrim
Fathers elaborated, popped up and inquired
" What OF our Pilgrim Mothers? They had
to bear All this, and the Pilgrim Fathers be-
sides.o
II Bear it like a man.' There have been
hundreds of cases of wives, whose husbands
having been sent to State prison for term
of wears have faithfully toiled to keep their
families together, and lay up a sum otmoney
for the graceless husband to begin life again
when his term out, and that, although
the law in such case divorced the parties.
Did YOU ever hear of a man doing that
Not he He would have sent his children
to any body that wouldn't bother nm toe
often about them, and married again, or else
Ne would have drank to drown the trouble
poor man! For what can fellow do when
he has "a bad wife, but drink, or cut his
throat, or drown?
Stay-there are exceptions to all rules.
did hear of a husband once who had Il wife
given to drink Did he hang round hei
neck, as you would have done your hus-
bands, ma'am, in a similar case, and bother
her about temperance, and ask her what had
become of her self-respeet, and what would
become of her children and OF him, If she
kept drinking? Not at all. He kindly filled
her empty jug whenever the contents were
gone. asking no questions, and went his way
allowing her to go hers. As to his motive,
dare say he had one, but there's no denying
thathe bore it," like man. Ladies Pearl