The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-04-02
heartless women! They should not even be

heartless women They should not even be
seen about happy home. ,.,
There should be swinging window ut the
home is in the city, for my young people are
too poor to have conservatory, where winter
and summer the breath of the blossoms should
come.
The rooms should be orderly, neat, and sweet
with a sort of "dried lavender" thymy,
country smell about them, that would take the
mans heart in fancy out into fresh green fields
and broad meadows, with sky-larks and blue
skies, and brown butterflies and grasshoppers,
and breezy red and white clover, and humming
bees-with the woman he loves by his side.
In the economic management of home,
nothing should be left to the servants. A
wife's touch, wife's love, should be seen and
felt in everything. Her table should be ex-
ouisitely clean, with only little silver on it,
and that pure-only little glass, and that cut
and the china should be pure, white and fine,
the napkins and linen snowy, the food deli
ciously palatabe and always deiciously served.
A wife's attention to the minor details of her
household can readily effect all this. Her neg
lgence, be it ever so slight, is observable: :,
Only the service of capable servants should
be accepted. Housekeeping as am to-day,
had rather be my own domestic than have an
untidy or careless menial about my premises.
Nothing should escape matron's eye, and yet
her government should be I'm main de fer
quantee dt vel0urS.
Nor should any woman marry until she is
capable of governing household-en 6ret,
of making her presence of love, and system,
and ability felt through a gentle and irresistl-
BILE influence
No man will think less of his wife because
LII of homo
affairs.
When a man of sense marries he wants a
wife-not merely the social devotee, the beau
tiful artist, who plays and sings and dances
and paints and promenades He wants a
.companion-one who can comfort and console
him in his gloomy hours; one with whom he
can counsel; one who has reason, appreciation,
reflection, Judgment and feeling One who
knows how to share his sorrows one whose
heart is always glad when he is happy; one
who, by her pure influence, can purify his
heart, also, and develope all that is good IN
his nature one who can strengthen his prln-
ciples; who is capable of self-denial; who can
educate his children and govern his household ;
one who is the mistress of his intellect, as well
as his passions, the treasurer of his happiness
as we'll as his honor, the mother who serves as
we'll as the wife who loves him
A woman who devotes herself to fashion and
frivolity can have no secure grasp upon the
affection of her husband. She may be the
belle of the ball; the queen of the drawing
room the object of admiration at the opera,
but she is not tit for helpmeet to man who
is sensible and refined, and domestic in his
tastes, and pure in his principles and in his
heart.
1t should be the Joy and the delight of every
true wife to do all things for her husband
She should endeavor to be elegant chaste,
charming, refined, delicate, tender, passionate
and loving-and all for him She should
hover near him when he is at home, minister
ing to his every want-her hand should natu-
rally lie in his as bird nestles in her own nest,
the safest; she should be all and everything to
him. That man does not live, and never did
live, who was able to resist the loving, refined
and gentle influence of pure, peaceful, intel
ligent and afectionate woman.
The most beautiful picture that has ever
been made of true woman was the descrlp-
ton that Sir John Mcintosh gave of his own
wife: "She was a woman who by tender man
agement of my weaknesses gradually corrected
the most pernicious of them. Though of the
most generous nature, she taught me economy
by her love of me- During the most critical
period of nv life she relieved me of the cares
of my affairs, and preserved order in them.
She gently reclaimed me from dissipation she
propped my weak and irresolute nature; she
urged nv Incidence to useful and credtable
exertions, and was perpetually at hand to ad-
monishi nv heedlessness and improyidence.
To her owe whatever / am; to her whatever
I shall be. In her solicitude for my interest
she never for moment forgot my character.
Her feelings were warm and impetuous, but
she was placable, tender and constant. Such
was she whom lost when knowledge of her
worth had refined my ardent love to sincere
friendship"
All can any woman have lived in vain
whose husband pronounces such panegyric
over her death =?
Let every woman, every wife, remember this
gem
"The sunlight that follows shipwreck is
not less beautiful, though it shines upon the
remnants of the broken bark; what is saved
is so much more precious than that which has
been lost. The domestic circle is too small to
allow of rupture; it is always too precious to
make excusable any neglect to prevent. or to
heal.disturbances There are enough to minister
by hints and reports to domestic unhappiness ;
and, unfortunately, the best under such circum-
stances are much prone to mistake, and thus
misrepresent motives; and trif1es, with no di-
rect object are magnitied into mountains OF
unintentional ofense. Let US guard against IT
Delicate relations are like the polish of costly
cutlery; dampness corrodes and the rust,
though removed, leaves stain"
A LOCOMOTIVE ON THE RAMPAGE.-A very
extraordinary railroad accident occurred
at Altoona on Saturday, the 18th instant.
A locomotive, standing in the yard of the Penn
sylvania Company, was waiting at the clnder
pile to be cleaned, when laborer, jumped on
her and attempted to move her short distance
backward. In so doing he ran the locomotive
against another one behind. intilct'ng severe
damare He started the engine forward, and,