New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-09-03

men and brave women would not merely DISLIKE Dut NJ
terly despse" OF several Of the pests that are some
times found in family life Miss Mulock dscourses with
great energy, usually advising decisive abatement OF
the nuisance. man who is vic;imized by weak and
selfish wife that he dare not call his soul his own
awakcns only feeling Of contempt Often member OF
family who is gifted with talent for art Is forced INTO
great sacrifices by the rest who do not understand IT,
But on the other hand onc-sided enthusiast makes
very dsagrecable husband and worse father Of fam
fly. modern Corinnc, with her hair down her back
playing harp all day long instead OF going into the
kitchen and looking after her servants, Is most az
ravatng wife for any man to marry. There are some
people nolerable to live with, says Miss Muock that
nobody should be allowed To live with them and would
he well If special asylum were to be established on
their account This would soon dispose OF the cross
grained brother sister, the cantankerous aunt, tue
troublesome relative OF any sort, whom one always
wishes 1T would please God to take to Heaven One
Of the greatest nuisances in family TO which the at-
thor REFERS Is the shtless imbecle brother, VINO Is
always turning up I'm the wrong place. "There are
people, amisble interesting acctionate externally 10
whom one sometimes whole families sacrificing
themselves without the slightest sense OF the harm
they are doing-I mean the neer-do-weels' Not the
people who do actual evil but the people who never do
good. OF such Is the weak, amiablc, lnpecunious
brother who always comes back and back to drain the
last halpenny from his Woodworking sisters Perhaps
he has vices whatever il Of pleasant and not I'M
aectionate only somehow he GOntrives to let
everything slip through his fngers-moDey, timc, OPP
portunity And as he in reality thinks of nobody but
himself, OF course he marIies early and rashly, aud
brings his wife aud family to be kept by his sisters
who 20 on impOverishing themselves year by year,
doing not only their dutya sisters must do that-but
q great deal than their duty; submitting TO end
less exacOns, allowing not only the feeSe, who are II
natural burden, but the strong, the sendugent the
extravagant, to live them and drain the leb'od
out Them till death in mercy to end the never
ceasng sacrifice sacrifice which has done no good 10
ANYBODY for IL has left the selfish selfish STILL and TIC
extravagant reckless ever; perhaps worse tian
ever, from the long habit OF receiving supplies from
Others instead OF earning their luxuries If they must
have Them themselves. The lifelong devotion 0f q
whole family unworthy member has been no more
than pouring into sieve; ii has never benefited
him. and 1t has ruined the rest" Miss Mulocks cOunses
to the sufferers from ncurabe disease though severe III
their application characterized by her usual franess
and good There nothing for ii but IL accept the
situation, and trying TO get well, ana worrying
about every small symptom of being worse or better
The peace soul that has ceased 10 struggle with the
body actually conduces to the health which has been re-
signed This is specimen of the mild stocal philosophy
which pervades the volume. 1t advances no aud2cous
theories cyinces the exercise of individual rather than
of original thought and suggestsno startling conclusions
but its and wholesome wisdom VIII attract many
readers and amply reward them for its perusal