The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1877-04-25

to succumb thus readily to her lot. Sup
pose Mrs Jones is
SPIRITED WOMAN,
who viii not submit tamely to this hard
issue OF her married life She will do
one of two things. She will become her
husbands accuser-a thorn in his side
u rebel, or she will institute life indie
pendent OF Mr. Jones If Mr.. Jones will
defr4ud her of her rights by making
money, she will take her rights in his
i'm. She will spend money, she will
fini her delights. her solace, her pursuits
in society. If Mr. Jones will not make
her home pleasant, other people will be
invited to do so. If Mr.. jones will not
make himself agreeable, she will go
where people are agreeable. Her heart
is hungry, here life is without zest, her
hopes are disappointed, an she takes
license from her husbands essential inf
deity, to seek for something somewhere
which shall make her life signitic INT. 1t
her husbands heart is lost, it makes but
little practical difference in what manner.
Love, society, consideration, appreciation,
she must and will have and if shecannot
get these where she has a claim upon them
she will secure an outside supply. Her
nus band has chosen his field of satisfac
tions, and chosen it independently of her.
She will take the position of housekeeper
and money spender which Mr.. Jones has
assigned to her, and then choose her field
of satisfactions and solaces independently
Of him. When
THIS STATE OF THINGS
become established all true family life is,
of course, at an end. Husband and wife
entertain and maintain seperate interests
Communion ceases. If they are peace
able persons they get along reputably
and with a certain degree of comfort. If
they are quarrelsome persons, they quar-
rel. Many cases are different from this
There is class of employments which
make such great and persistent drafts
of physical strength, such exhaustive de
mands upon the nervous forces, that the
minds Of those who are subjected to them
become dull and apathetic. In these
cases love shares the poverty of all the
affections. The man who goes to sleep in
church goes to sleep in the chimney cor
ner. The man who finds no spirit of
worship, love OF God, no delicate appre-
citation of the beauty OF nature, no joy of
immortality, no aspiration, no insplra-
ton within him, because the life has been
worked out of him, can hardly be eX-
pected to have much love for his wife or
Il very delicate appreciation OF her needs
and her ministries. Indeed, he readily
learns to speak of her as ''the old woman.
She is so far from being the wife of his
bosom that she has become the wife Of his
back. She makes his bed, cooks his
meals, darns his stockings, is his dairy
maid, housemaid, washerwoman, scullion
and what not To say nothing of the
wives of day laborers, what is the condi-
ton of affairs i'll the homes of many me-
chanics2
HOW MANY CAREssEs,
how many kind, considerable words, how
many demonstrations of warm and devot-
ed affection, how many tender and sym
pathetic attentions does the wife of many
a mechanic, ten years married, receive
in the course of a twelve month? How
much does he strive to tighten or sweet
en- her burdens? If she is a ''mighty
smart woman" and ''does her own work;
if she can do 'more work than any three
women he can hire" he tells it to his
neighbors perhaps; and, sometimes, when
she is looking at her hard knuckles OF
parting her thin gray growing hair, she
hears of his boast and gets such comfort
out of it rs she can. Exactly where re-
lief is to come from in cases like these is
net obvious. Hard physical toll is moi
likely to cease, nor IS it probable that it;
natural effect is to be suspended. Moth
ing but rational apprehension of the real
difficulty on the part Of men, and bet
ter comprehension of
THE NATURE OF WOMEN,
would seem to be adequate to the work
, of reform. The hapless wife learns hel
| lot early, and doubtless makes the best
of it. Perhaps her own toll helps hel
| to a sort of indifference, and brings hel
| to a SOFT of harmony of feeling with he
| husband beyond what would seem posi-
| bic TO the observer. This is ygrse, how
retain her susceptibility of suffering.
a woman's sensibilities must be spoil
ed before she can become comforta
BILE; if that which made her attractiv,
and lovable as a maiden must be bIottet
out in order that life may be tolerable II
her, She is certainly bound to q sad alter
native Of evils, Woman is the natura
bosom companion of man. Her sympa
thetic constitution, her independence 0
all his natural rivalries, her warm afIec
! ton. attachment and devotion, all desig
nate her as his choicest frenu. -,
are few men Of character who find thei
) fria 1cIS ri
sex. Strong wills, selfish interests, pos
tive tastes, the fear of treaohery, tn
love of eminence and social dominion
all tend to keep men from intimate com
munion with each other They meet OF
grounds ofcommon politeness, they skak
hands, they speak pleasant words to eac
other. they have, in multitudes of in
stances, an lonest, friendly interest i
each other; but, as Il general rule, ever
man says to every other man, "Thus ia
shalt thou come and no farther" Not OF
ten does a man expose his heart to
THE EYES OF OTHER MEN.
Great men sometimes make companion
and partial confdants of small mer
never of their equals. Old men som,
tllAoS LHoAO @OAs4 RAAiS1fS VI Jung AHCh
of those who do them reverence; bl
when one of their own age appears the
mouths are shut, and they resume the
ret;cence. Wherever and whenever ma
meets man as an equal, in age, or powe
or dignity, there intervenes a veil throug
which communion is impossible. I'll
, trust, the faith, the confidence which
is so hard for man to give to man, it
q easy for man to give to woman. She
0 as different from him as if she belongt
f to another race of beings. She does n
e live in this world. She does not ent