The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1873-10-23

eye, when they may rejoice in all the
hideousness that contributes TO those
arguments OF person which constitute
their stock in trade, and without which
they would suffer for provendcr.
| Therefore, il in these things only We
have hope, wives are OF all women
most miserable; seeing that they demor-
ali2e ug while they pander to that taste
in man which is already u burden to us,
and make matrimony OF 40 account.
Let us then rise TO the occasion and be-
come both useful and ornamental; seek
| ing our lords interest while not neg
locting his pleasure; keeping our houses
1 in order with our own hands ii neces-
| sary, protecting them with gloves and
avoiding poultices which are unseemly;
eschcwing slatepencils and things that
/ bring sorrow TO the scalp, and artIully
| weaving plenty of 'boughtcl' hair into
our own tresses; and by setting excel
lent hash with gushing chccrfulncss and
all the virtue and wisdom and astutoness
| combined in Webstcrs Unabridged
against the smiles that have speculation
in them, md against charl0tan arts and
rouges that lovely economy which
works over old clothes into miracles
! that make millincrs aud drcss,mNkcrs
blush, aud leaves fellow n nice little
! margin for boquets, cigarettes, and I" in
cideutals;' and finally, by cvading those
little family affairs which disarrange
the form; by carrying all the GrNccs Of
the parlor into the practices of the
kitchen, and riding two locomotives
going in opposite directions at once, let
us strive to he all thingo TO Que mnn {;
that by all means we may gain Nomg Of
him for it il easier for sucking babe
to 20 through Il boardiuE-housc steak
thsn for one woman TO take the animal
whole.
O ye HomlItonju,, om heart is open
nuio You, orr mouth is onInfSod.
FATALITIES FROM THGHrENING. THE
human mortality from tightening is not
generally on large scale, and might be
much reduced byprocoution on the part
Of the builders so thinks the Building
News. Arn%o estimated that the number
Of deaths from chic cause amounted in
Frnnro to about 20 in the y"w; Boudin
calculutcd that from 1880 to 1892 i,3US
so prrishol uouei November, Decem-
ber january. or February, but most
in june und August. The lowest ratc
is ASSIGNED to Belgium, and th" next to
Sweclcu, the United States and Eng.
land being about on Il par, AS rule,
however, these fatalities do not occur
inside structure oI any kind. The
peril as experience shows, IA less IN II
crowded town than in village or IN the
open country, and, naturally, the more
elevated structures are the most liable
to be struck. Fuller, indeed, III his
"Church History" asserts that there
scarcely ever existed q grcnt abbey in
ENGLAND which had not lcon, at one
time or another, wholly or partially y de
stroyed by tightening, aud his citations,
taken in comparison with the recOrdH OF
our own times, arc certainly remark
able. IN NIL cases it is the Bpirc, the
tower md the dome which has been
INITIATED As 10 ordinary hahitntlons,
all sorts Of theories are in vogue on the
subject of danger and safety. Some
RELY on thick glass in the windows, and
some ON register stoves others reco-
mend stone roofs instead Of slate, and
others tell tirnid people that they should
live in hollow. It is contended on
this side that there should be the least
possible admiXtUc of metal in the com
bjnntion OF an inhabited structure and
on at that all the bells beneath tho
ROOF should be kept continually ringing,
! iuet ns, in obedience TO IN old super
stitiOn, cannon are fired Mt sea. The
mass Of evidence upon this topic points,
| however, 10 the one conclusion already
suggested, TINT good lightning CON
ductor is the solitary safeguard; but
that, unless good, it is worse than none
| C,RLYLr'4 SENsE OF HUMoR ---" Far
| be il from me to say, says Carlyle, " that
solemnty is nm essential OF greatness
! that no great man can bayc other than
a rigid vinegar aspect of countcnance,
never 20 be thawed or warmed by bill
lows of mirth. There are things III this
! world to bc Ia ghcd at as well MS to be
admired, and there is no complete mind
that cannot give to such sort its due.
Nevertheless, contempt is u dangerous
element to sport in deadly one if we
bah.tually live in il. How, indeed, to
take the lowest view OF this matter, shall
Il man accomplish great enterprises, en-
during all toll, resisting temptation,
LAYING aside oyery weight, unless he
zealou5ly love what he pursues ? The
faculty Of love. Of admiration, is to be
REGARDED as the sign and the measure OF
high souls; mwisely directed it leads
many evils, bnt without it there cannot
he any good. Ridiculc, on the other
hand il in Iced faculty much prihedby
| its possessors, yet intrinsirally it il a
| smnll facnlty. we may say the smallest