Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-06-22
ANSWER TO EDUCATED FOR IT.,

ED. MONITOR l have q word |
would like to say to the author of ed
ucated for it which appeared in your
issue of May 25th for almost exactly
the same advice that is implied in that
article, was gratuitously and persistent
II thrust upon the wife of the writer by
an intimate married friend, the last few
weeks, and let me tell you, I .feelit.
let me begin by saying that in "Ma-
ry' you have described my wife to per-
fection. My wife how my pen fingers
around those words What world of
life, of love, of joy, is bound up in them
Six years ago she came to me, and to-
day, though she is hundreds of miles
away in a distant city, my heart goes
out to her with a deeper, stronger yearn-
ing, than in those first days, when she
trustingly committed her life's happi-
ness to my keeping. Yes, when l was
first married, my wife actually blacked
my boots for me ! What do you think of
that ? Wasn't l a brute to let her do
it? l tell you, [ felt like one the first
time she brought them to me ; but when
demonstrated by telling her that l did
not wish to make shoot black" of my
wife, she looked up in my face with the
tears IL her eyes, telling me how much
she enjoyed doing just those little, prac-
teal things for me which you so strik-
ingly delineate IN your article, and
wound up with the "please let me,
that has always been the most potential
and conclusive argument in our house
from that time to this. Now, presume
your dustin" would not have BACKED
his boots again for the whole six years
that have followed, but would have
thoughtlessly expected his "Mary" to
have always kept them ready ''shined"
to his hand from that time to this but
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allow me to say, that l have not done
anything of the kind, and I'm neither
better nor worse than thousands of other
men. Still, to-day, whenever my "Ma-
ry'' has the time, my boots undergo a
blacking at her hands, that most en-
phatically takes the shine off of any
thing l ever executed in that line, for I
am usually in a tearing hurry, and they
come In for just about that attention
that will keep them from looking posi-
lively rusty.
Such character as you paint In your
"Justin," is q perfect monstrosity OF
selfshness and brutishness. Think OF
it A man capable of becoming the fa-
ther of eight children in twelve years
and then think of it ''a pity that his
wife, that he has sworn to cherish and
protect, should fade so soon." Such a
man is not fit to be the husband of a
frail, delicate, affectionate woman, but
ought to be yoked up with some strap
ping Jemima with the physical strength
of an cx, and strength of will and
character to match. He knows not what
it is to love-that sweet, unselfsh love
that "seeketh not its own," but always
the good of the beloved. delighting il
and beautifying beyond the power o.
language to express. just those little
practical, everyday services, that go Sc
far toward making up the sum of human
life and happiness. But all men are moi
s'Justins," and all women are not ma
rys' but l thank God, the Blessed Civ
er, that nsy wife is Mary. 1t is thu
sweetest pleasure [ have-in fact, th'
only unalloyed pleasure-to minister t.
her. 1t is her love that revives my arm
to renewed energy in hours of adversely
deep and dark hours of which I hav
seen not few, and that have had thei
keenest pain in the knowledge that
, could not perfectly shield my darling
from their chilling breath. For her
labor. For her shall strive with al
4 the strength that God has given me, t
! win place among men, that she ma,
occupy it and it will be in very truth
s triumph for my eyes to see. to plac
her in the position which she is fitted b
education, birth. gift of heart and min,
D to occupy.
e But your "Mary" made mistake
she did not marry "Justin, she marie
an ideal lover and her lot is one of tn
saddest to contemplate.
Many "Marys,' without doubt, Wi
read this little article, that are singl
still. Let me say to you as man an
a brother, better be single to the end {
;. your days, than bury your life in such
living death as marriage with such
character as Justin's cannot fail to prov
2 to you. But all men are not '-Justins.
There arc those that are good, and tru'
and tender when wooed by such a
2 one, be won and won, be Mary still.
HENRY.
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