The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-06-19
THE MODEL HESBAND.

Below we give a few extracts
from a lecture delivered in the
Congregational church, Burlington,
Iowa, by the great Methodist Sun
day-school man, DIR. Vincent. The
Burlington Hawkeye sets it down
as "the most entertaining of the
season." DIR. vincent is always racy.
We clip from the G. C.. Advocate ::
piogenes the Cynic, the speaker
said, WalEed about in the sunlight
with q lighted lantern, seeking a
man. l am no cynic, but tonight
l too, seek a man. The maiden and
are alike in this thing, only she
seeks a man, desiring him for a
husband, and / want him for u lee
ture. Finding a good husband is
like drawing lots in lottery, there
may be forty blanks before one
draws a prize.
Before models we have ideals.
He believed in ideals. We must
pursue our ideals. AS you rise, SO
the dream ideal of your soul arises,
as II in mockery of your effort.
You may never reach it, but YOU
strive after it, and in strife there is
strength. The ideal transfigures
and glorifies life.
In humorous vein the speaker
pictured the young mans ideal.
What you see in the face and figure
of the maiden who has led you cap
tive is only the reflection of your
own imagination. She weighs one
hundred and fifty pounds, although
! know II is exceedingly rude for
me to hint that she weighs any,
thing at all. Sou write what you
call poetry to her and tell her that
her "feet fall like the moonbeams
on the dew" when in reality she
wears doubled-soled shoes, number
Il really forget what number she
wears. You rave about "the morn
ing splendOr round her head =
there is little bill in black and
white that tells just what she paid
for three of those-what do they
call them? do not know just
how much il is that she paid foT
them, but it was cheap enough fol-
morning sPlenaar. Then you say
that "thoughts of you arc her life,
when ! know she loves oysters and
beef, and il she is dieting On you as
you say she is, she is fond of goose
ami veal.
Every married woman has two
husbands. She has the ideal hus.
band, whom she fell In love will
when she was school girl. Shit
loved him, as her lover that was t.
) be. She walked with him Shy
, moonlight alone"-alas, "alone :
she did not write his name, becaus,
she did snot know il. When writ
discomfort, are sure TO adopt, soone
[ or later, an upward and aspirin:
, form of building. 1t is not merel!
that, fanaying heaYea to he aboY'
: earth, they point toward heaYen
7 There is a deeper natural Language
s in the pyramidal form of growing
: tree. II symbolizes growth, or tn
desire of growth. The Norma
tower does nothing of the kind.
does not aspire to grow. Look
= mention an instance with which
. am most famiiiar-at the Norma
tower of Bury St. Edmund's. 1t
> graceful-awful if you will-bu
there is no aspiration in it. it
: stately, but seIf-content. Its hor
a zontal courses; circular arches
!, above all, its fiat skyline, seem {
have risen enough, and wish to ris
! no higher. For it has no touch o
l. that unrest of soul which Is eS
y pressed by the sgire, aud still nor
e by the eompound spiFe, with 1
kpinnaeles, 'erocketE, finals, while
\ are finals only in. name for the
III do not finish, ana are really term
binds, as it were, longing to ope
RI and grow upward, even as ii
T, crockets are kracts and leayI
- thrown off as the shoot has grow