The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1874-01-08
ABOUT WOMEN.
The wives of Public Men at Wash
jngfon.

Many a brilliant man, ike Sammy Cox
marries a lady Of th2ughtful encourage
ment, WIG willingly surfenders her fortuG'
to give lin a career, and then submits to
the less of much of his society and to the
acquaintance of many people Of no con
geniality for tie saTe purpose. Again
there are women, ike Mrs. Srayue. whC
/ seem created on purpose TO diminish theil
/ hu-bands--not by any unhappy emulation
. CT by greatly superior attainments-but BY
that buDyancy of address and spirits which
in a social capital make their impressions Sc
easily. while the more absorbed husband
passes at half his worth and the bright
wife at double her talent. Other women
Ike Mrs. Garfield, are too good, motheriy
and unconscious of self and social arrogance
10 change one hairs breadth from the path
of domestic duty, and so are lost to tAe
giddy procession which will never relax its
hold upon a serritor, but preys upon each
new arrival for a winter and plucEs her MS
winter plucks the pea fowl.
Some women drive their husbands to TIE
breach OF ashamedness, like certain ca
i.inct offcer's wife, Of whom it is currently
said, "She is a very prominent candidate
for the chief justiceship." Others die
young and fond, like Mrs. Bekrap, who
spent some o. her latest hours of pain
and conscious dying telling her husband
what articles in his lodgings belonged
10 him, and urged him to remember, for
the sake Of that dear comfort she wished
to give him when he should be lonely in his
widower home. lcok at the wives and
daughters OF public men with sensioility
and curiosity. They can not disguise then
breeding or their propensity. What is
genuine shows out clear and strong; what
is parvenu in character or affected or dis
INFLATED dcceiycs nobody but the players.
Love and unselfshness in the loves of pub
lie life are ten times holier to see than lcve
in by-road life, where love itself il capital
:
TO serve ones children, to be in the world,
and beautiful IN ii and stii! pure and loyal
with interval--what freshness does she
make in political capital, She who speaks
the simple truth, who lives the guiicless
way, who is no conspirater adding to pub
lie emulation the intrigue Of women, and
to her husband Is less the energizer than
the monitor ahi angel--happy is the state
with such wives to its public men Wash
Wgton Letter.
SOME WIVES rLsFwH1tE.
found james Mott delicl ted one even
ing when ! went to cali on him, lecause,
while he was working in his garden, two
men went by AM ore SAID: THAT is
James Mott and who is James MOTIF
Why, don't YOU know? lie is Lucretia
MOTIFS husband. Now James Mott was bv
no means common man-with Il lesser
half, he would have seemed great and lie
was great i'll bis steady and perfect loyalt =
to truth and goodness; but his wife was
the woman Of centu"y, while he vas so
noble and great Of soul as to he glad and
prou Of her greatnesr, arj at the same
time lie : emel all the greater for his wor-
-hip--a fear, / notice, few men are able t.
ace Dmpilsh.
AudubUT, our great naturalist married Il
good, sweet WON IN, aud when she begin
to find him out sic found be would wander
oti Il Thousand miles il qne>t of Il bird
She said Amen" ami went with him,
cumped in the woods. l;yed in 10. hut and
shanties on the frontier. anywhere to be
With him. She entered INTO his -nthusi-
asm, stirred hi- labor, and counted all thing
but loss for the e1cellcncry Of the glory Of
being Audubon's wife When the chill
dren began to cone to them he had to wan
der of alone, but he could not get into a
valley 50 deep, or ii vii lerness so distant.
that, the light would not SHINE on him frt m
their windows. lie knew exactly where he
would fnd her, and tow she would look,
for while, as Ru.kin reminds us, the cloud,
are never twice alike the tunshine is al
ways familiar, and it was sunshine he saw
when he looked homeward
So, if yol have zeal his notes, you will
remember how his heart breaks forth into
singing in all sorts of unexpected places as
he thinks OF the wife and children waiting
his return; and in that way they lived their
life until they dropped Into the lap of G cd
like mellow fruit. L was laid on the man
to 10 this curious wild work How the
woman's heart yearned to have him home
We may well imagine, and how gladly she
wonld have given up some Of his greatness
to keep her children's father at her side,
but she did not tell him so, if she was the
woman | think she vas; and so She is
changed into the same image, from glory
to glory. Growing aged together in the
body, they are touched now in the spirit
with immotal youth.
When Obcrliu was eighty years old and
NtlN illhI Ms Niiiibi''S inv VI NO h"Ai'S
mountains one day, he was obliged to lean
on the arm OF a younger man, while his
wife who was still strong, walked by her
self Meeting one Of his pensioners the
cid man felt 50 awkward, at bis seeming
lack of galantry, .het he insisted on stop
ping and telling just how it was; she could
not lean on his arm, bat she leanel on bis
heart al! the same; they had grown aged
together, but he had shot little ahead ;
they must not thiuk there was any ether
reason, it was as it always had been, only
he was the weaker vessel now, and would
his friend please say SO when he happened
TO mention what he had seen. So it would
be with these twain, in tina: far far away
eastern valley; they would keep together
and, when the arm failed, the heart would
still abide in the old beautiful strength.
and what did you see 2 said once
to a friend who had been into the Lake
country, and who on his return, told me
he had gone to Wadswo-th's home. 81
saw the cid man." he said, walking in