The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-08-30

that nobody but the lawyers get any of
the properly at all, and sometimes, in the
endeavor to tie 1t up 90 fast, leaving such
meshes that the whole creeps through, and
is inherited free of any condition. Leav.
ing Il 90, they must suffer In the leaving
it almost sufficiently to punish them for
the suffering they occasion while they
hold it.
For it is difficult to overestimate the
suffering caused q sensitive girl by the
shabby apparel she is obliged to wear, by
the school books she is obliged to borrow,
the pleasures she is obliged to f0rego, the
mean home in which she ID obliged to see
acquaintance, where such father rules;
or caused to wife by her sympathy with
he. children, or by similar evidence of
the superiority of her husbands love for
money over his love for herself.
Certainly these men must be destitute
of family affection in any intense degree,
for we have known families who lived ON
little but oatmeal from years end to years
end, and sold half the milk of the COW at
that; who never had 90 much as the ears
of the yearly pig that was sold to the
butcher; who, though they worked in the
garden, had none of the vegetables, and
who would as soon have touched the fruit
OF the Tree of Life q have dared to pick
an apple; yet the father sat in high places,
and was respected as q moneyed man,
with the vague aura surrounding him that
somehow seems always to accompany the
possession of money even in the hands of
the most unworthy, instead of being exc.
Grated as ruffian for his cruelty to ami.
mails, If for nothing else. "To0 much
luxury! too much luxuryl'' he said, when
he found On ambitious married daughter
had earned with her own hands . COM
mon ingram carpet for her little parlor;
and he cut her off with shilling.
Nor can they value the opinion Of those
about them. "Give me back the penny,
pretty one,'' said man who was an au-
thOrity in his town, two-thir1s of which he
owned, having given b child coin to
keep 1t quiet fOf . moment or two; "a
cent spoils the face of q dollar" And
sometimes it Is q pttzzle to us whether
they do love money as possession, or as
an abstract entity to which honor Is due;
for we have heard of one of them who,
dropping dime beneath door-sill. and
finding his own efforts unavailing to remove
it. hired lab0rer to take up the door STONE,
and paid him q quarter for the job. Yet
it is possible that such case as that only
emphasizes the love of it, since the recov-
cry of the dime was felt to be worth the
greater sum; and quite as possibly the
computation of the interest on that dime,
lying idle and lost for all time, weighed
heavily in the balance against the expend-
iture of the quarter Tor value received in
work and there may, after all, have been
only braggadocio about it, and q sacri-
flee of real feeling, in the fancy that it
might afterward be said, "He does not
love money so much as exactitude and
JUSTICE"
Such men are almost invariably as tyran-
nical as they ere close-fisted; i deed, the
exercise of their dominant quality obliges
them to hold the rein closely. The result
of this in the family is usually open insub-
ordination, petty theft, constant deceit, or
else a slavish submission that begets q
chronic weakness of mind which, not dar-
ing to think, borders closely upon stupid
ity. My dear, J" said one Of these tyrants,
1--WE are using q great deal of light in
these hard times. Two candles are an ex-
travagance nowadays. think, consider
ing the high price Of living, we must con.
tent ourselves with burning one candle, no
matter who it may be that drops in in the
evening. They must take US as they find
u.s." And the slave quite agreed. But
on coming home the next night, vha. was
his amazement to find two candles burn
ingl He quietly extinguished one, and
waited for the departure of the guests in
order to expostulatc with his wife. II
don't know what you mean," answered
the slave, with flicker of indignation.
I" was only burning the one took one
candle and cut it in two."
1t seems to US that such people as these
are really almost outside the pale Of hu-
mainly They afford only pain and no
pleasure during their lives, and their
deaths might be called their first praise.
worthy act. Families have rights as well
as heads of families, and it is not even
questionable how far q man is warranted
in Notifying and humiliating his wife
and daughters and sons in order to graft
fy any within or idiosyncrasy of his own
that is not founded in law and logic.
There are but few wives and daughters in
all the sum of society who do not deserve
well of husbands and fathers. In the
great number there are not many who
would commit, or wish to commit, unjus-
tifiable extravagances if they were in
formed of the facts of the case; and there
are still fewer who. if q course of penuri-
business were necessary and right for any
desirable or laudable object, or even II
they were only assured that it was 80 by
one whom they trusted, would not do their
best, and make every personal sacrifice in
carrying it out. We have even known
cases where they did 80 to satisfy the ia
theirs notion Of saving, when there was
no real reason for il, because he was 9th
erwise kind, and they felt that to be pc
culiarity not to be cured, and saw that the
pain the sacrifice cost him was more than
the pleasure an opposite course would
yield them. And for such wives and
daughters who may be unable to better
circumstances. either through youth or i'll
health, by selfexertion, we think the
pressure Of public opinion should exert
its authority, and compel sufficient decen-
cy of appearance for the victims to feel
that they are certainly of the value of q
sparrow, two of which are sold for pen.
ny.-Ha,per's Bazaar.
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