The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-07-17
From the Illustrated Christian Weekly
PEACE At HOME.
BY REV. T. DE WITT rALaAGE-


when you have done wrong in domestic
affairs. Let that be law Of your house
hold. Find out what are the weak reints.
If may call them 50, Of your mpanion,
and then stand aloof from them Do not
carry the fire ofyour temper too near the
gunpowder. If the wife be easily fretted
by disorder in the household. let the
husband be careful where he throws his
slippers If the husband comes home
from the store with his patience all ex-
hausted, do not let the wife unnecessary
~ cross his temper. Buth both stand
up for your right, and you shall have the
everlasting sound of the war-whoop
Your life will be spent in making up, !"
and marriage will be to you an unmiti
gated curse. Cowper said
'The kindest and the lappiest paiH
VIII find occasion tn forbear: y
And something every day they live,
To pity and perhaps forgive
Make your chief pleasure circle round
the home. If the husband spends most
of his nights out of the house, not from
necessity, he is not the head Of the house
hold /; he is only the cashier. If the
wife throws the cares of the household
into the servants lap and then spends
FIVE nights of the week at the opera or
the theatre, she may clothe her children
with satins and laces and ribbons that
woul confound a French miiliner-they
are orphans. Oh, it is a sad thing when
a child has no one to say its prayers to,
because the mother has gone off to the
evening entertainment. In India, they
bring the children and throw them to the
crocodiles, and it seems very cruel but
the jaws Of New York and Brooklyn dis
sipation are swallowing down more little
children to-day than all the monsters that
ever erawled upon on the banks Of the
Ganges. [ have seen the sorrow Of
Goddess mother on the death of a child
she neglected She said, eff [ had only
watched over and cared for the child, |
know God would not have taken it."
d
tering tempest, a searching simeon of the
desert When she wrung her hands, it
seemed as if she would twist the fingers
from their sockets When she seized
her hair, it seemed as if she had in wild
terror grasped a coiling serpent in her
right hand. No tears Comrades of the
little one came in and wept over the cot
fin. Neighbors came in and the moment
they saw the still face of the child, the
shower broke; but no tears for her. God
gives tears as the summer rain to the
parched soul, but in all the universe the
driest, the hottest the mos. scorching
and consuming thing is a mothers heart
if she has neglected her child, when once
it is dead God may forgive her, but
she will never forgive herself. The mem
DRY will sink the eyes deeper into tie
sockets and pinch the face, ard whiten
the hair, and eat up the breast with vui-
lures that will not be satisfied, forever
plunging deeper their iron beaks. Oh,
you wanderers from home, go back to
your duty. The brightest flowers in all
the earth are those that grow in the gar
den OF a Christian household, Chamber
ing over the porch of Christian home.
Have sympathy of occupation. Sir
James Mcintosh, one of the most ele-
giant and eminent men that ever lived,
while standing at the very top of his
eminenee, said to great company of
scholars, "My wife made me-" The wife
ought to be the advising partner in every
firm She ought to be interested in all
the losses and gains of shop and store
She ought to have a right-she has
right to know everything. If a man
goes into business transaction that he
dares not tell his wife of, you may de-
pend that he is on the way either TO
bankruptcy or moral ruin. There may
be some things that he does not wish to
trouble his wife with; but if he dare not
tell her, be is on the road to discontinue.
On the other hand the husband ought to
be sympathetic with the wife 5 occupa-
ton. 1t is no easy thing to keep house.
Many a woman that could have endured
martyrdom as well as Margaret the
Scotch girl has actually been worn out by
house management. There are a thous-
and martyrs of the kitchen. Il is very
annoying after the vexations of the day
around the stove or table, or in the nur-
sery OF parlor, to have the husband say,
You know nothing about trouble you
ought 10 be in the store half an hour"
Sympathy of occupation. If the hus
bands work cover him with the SCOT Of
the furnace, or the odors of leather or
the soap factory, let not the wife be east
ly disguised at the begrimed hands or
unsavory aroma. Your gains are one,
one. Lay hold of the work of life with
both hands. Four hands to fight the
battles Four eyes to watch for the
danger. Four shoulders on which to
carry the trials 1t is very sad thing
If the painter has wife who does not
ike pictures 1t is very sad thing for
a pianist when she has a husband who
does aot ike music 1t is a sad thing
when the wife is not suited unless her
husband has what is called ''genteel
business" As far as | understand a
'genteel business" it is something to
which man goes at ten clock in the
morning and comes home from at two or
three . clock in the afternoon, and gets a
large amount of money for doing nothing I
That is, believe. ''genteel business. -
And there has been many wife who has
made the mistake of not being satisfied
until the husband has given up the tann-
ing Of the hides. or the turning of the
banister, or the building of the walls,
and put himself in circles where he has
had nothing to do bit to smoke cigars