The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1875-01-29

1t is very much the fashion to read novels
And, judging from the large number which
are issued, serally and otherwise, it is very
much the fashion to write them Ladies are
| reputed to do the most novel reading, as
they appear to do the most novel writing
Their writing, as a rule, is decidedly the best
among the current issues, especially when
they keep their scenes and incidents within
tho province of domestic life. For they
know how to treat such subjects, while not
one man in hundred can touch them un-
erstandingly,
Here is a word Of wisdom, out Of a wo-
mans book called "Esie Ellis"-sever yet
republshod in this country. "Nothing an
noys a man more than to be eagerly question:
cd when he comes home tired. Give him
a neatly served dinner, or pair of easy
slippers and cup of tea, and let him eat and
drink in peaoe-and in time he will tell YOU
Of his own proper motion all you wish to
know But if you begin the attack too soon,
the chances are that you will be rewarded by
curly spoken monosylables.' "Put that
piece Of wisdom in your note book, girls, -
the author proceeds, ait will serve you well
some day" 1t may serve the reader too for
a pleasant five minutes. How charmingly
the woman crops out in the writer's confess
sion of the womanly appreciation of a man,
! from his boyhood to the end of his three
score years and ten-if he lives so long. He
is always boy-a strong kind Of q weak
creature, who needs to be taken care of; a
wiltul dearofa monster, who must be led with
a thread, that cannot be driven; member
of all ignorant sex who would soon so to
'the BAD if not watched over
Such is the Sense" of the intelligent of
the gentle sex, if their opinions could be can-
vassed, 1t is not so parsdoxcal, after all.
Nobody doubts that the horse is stronger
than his driver. Yet the more spirited the
horse, if property trained, the more easily he
10 guided by the slightest pull upon the bit.
And if men are not properly trained the
women are certainly the most to blame for
the deficiency. For in their hands is the
training. If they are wise, whatever may
become Of the theory of woman's rights,
woman will keep the ribbons" in her
hands.
But, let the women think as they will
perhaps we have little overstated the case
there is some reason on their side, and il
they wW take charge of the men, the men
are bound to submit Certainly in the
household the sovereignty is vested in the
female line And to revert to the wisdom OF
Miss Elsie Ellis, it must be conceded that
there is a great deal in it. 1t is all the
more impressive as coming from woman
Men do not like to be "nagged" and teased
And the better men love their wives the
less patient are they under reproof from
them. There is a sort of i thou, too =
feeling in a mans demeanor to his wife
when, upon his coming home for shelte
from the rough rubs Of the world, she put
him on the rack to have it all over again
whether he wishes it or no. 1t is not neces
sary to say more on this head than to ask tn,
reader to look back and read the quotation
from the book over again. That states th
proper treatment Of the case.
Family confidence, and sympathy betweel
husband and wife are of all things to b
preserved. The woman who is herself gen
tie and sensible is generally apt to find he
husband communicative enough-that is,
3 he is wise and gentle If he is not moth
ing is gained by his wife's letting him see 0
suspect that she knows it, OF all chroni
diseases folly in man or woman yields leas
to treatment and endurance seems to be tn
best palliative which those who suffer ca
administer.-Ledger.