Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-11-16
A PICTURE IN DOMESTIC LIFE.

III IN ~ Va lAlCs WV 1OflIlH llCdIl |
are united i'll marriage. Dame Fortune,
with her usual ~capriciousness, has been Law
ish in the bestowal of sterling qualities of
the heart, while their endowment of worldly
goods is meagre. Life, with its sunshine
md ~shadow-its vo%cissitudes, and stern re-
a%lities, visits them. The husband, naturally
incident and ease-loving, assumes the avo-
cation of the farmer; while the wife, enter
prising and a good manager, performs her
respective household duties.
Ihe first year teaches them adaptation.
The second, the Importance of forbearance
and reciprocal affection. The third, that
life is a much graver matter than they had
imagined. And the fourth, is the occasion
of their looking the great problem fairly in
the face, forming a just estimate of their re-
sources and with a will, placing their shout
ders to the wheel. Amid perplexities, diff
ficulties, financial embarrassment, depress-
ing influences, and hard labor-who is vic
tor in the struggle for home and happiness?
With due respect, for the executive ability
of man, I answer-the wife. Her move
ments and ultimated success, are established
upon the broad basis Of reciprocal affection.
Her influence, strong and ennobling, is com
plete. With the tact accorded all women,
she understands how to Tighten the load
bring happiness to the one she loves.
I never hear of unhappy homes and dissi-
pated husbands, but what I feel assured that
the difficulty originated in the nature of the
influence exerted by the wife. This is a
broad assertion, yet let IS analyze it a little :
The influence of women, for good or evil, is
inestimable. Home being her peculiar do
main-the married relation her natural ele-
ment-It is here her power is more fully
recognized. The most effective weapon she
can employ in the battle OF life, is the affec-
ton of her husband. Armed with this pos
session, she is ready for an emergency con-
sequently, her husband, children and home,
will become what she chooses to make
them.
A woman never loses the love Of her hus-
band, unless she has taken no pains to re-
tain it nor does she degenerate into a
drudge, or ~slattern, with her husbands con-
sent. Men are not brutes; far from it.
Touch the right chord and you will see.
Try the virtue of a smile. II you have per-
mitted your husband to contract the wretch
ed habit of tault-fnding, take him unaware,
and when his froWn is heaviest, manage to
touch your lips to his brow. You wi. find
the effect electrical and | doubt not your
little device, would discover a suspicious
quiyering Of the manly lips, and a moisten-
ing of the eyes, that regarded you with sur
prise and affection. There is but one mode
Of dealing satisfactorily with a husband, and
that is, with his heart, as we'll Us under
standing. Every wife understands how to
levy such attacks, and to come off more
than conqueror. Following the fortunes OF
the youthful pair. we find them, at the ex-
piration of twenty years, in q comfortable
home, which has replaced the modest frame.
Acres have increased the dimensions OF the
farm, its thriftress, bespeaking shillful nan-
aeement. The interior of the dwelling is
briphtened by the serene countenance Of the
matron of forty, while the glad voices OF the
merry group around her, testify to the fact
that home is not only dear but attractive.
1t is Friday evening, and the trio 1.-TWO
daughters and a son, aged respectively six
teen, fourteen and twelvel have taken pos
session of the parlor, and are deyoting the
time to music and conversation with papa.
The mother and oldest daughter occupy an
adjoining sitting-room, engaged III sewing.
! One of her flock is soon to be withdrawn
from her loving care and she feels it her
duty to plant her young feet in the straight