St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1877-05-18

COuSCltuCe. one uTtduS puUllClty. L ut
love of her husband, the reverence of
her children, constitute the crown to
which she aspires.
She is by nature and by taste an ar
fist. She loves beauty, and her deft
fingers, instructed by love, learn to
produce it. She does not think that to
be plain is to he hOmely. She loves
flowers, pictures, statuary, tasteful
dress. Her home may be poor, but it
is beautiful her dress plain, but it is
never ugly. She does not have curls
for company and curl-papers for her
breakfast-table; best parlOr ornate
with purchased elegance, and sitting
room in perpetual chaos. For beauty
she studies nature, not the fashion
plates. She thinks God understands
the human figure better than the millin
er and she is not Darwinian enough to
believe that the wasp furnishes the
model for her own form or that of her
daughters.
She hates shams. She bears no NAL
ice, except to lie. A lie acted is only
less intolerable than lie spoken. She
prefers to wear her own cap rather than
her neighbours bair, and has little in
to be jackdaw at home. Her life, as
her love, is without Discrimination.
She never quarrels, rarely disputes,
seldom discusses. The wisdom that is
from above is first pure, then peacea
BILE and she is very wise. 1t takes two
to make a quarrel; and, come what
may, she will not be one of them. She
answers with neither sharp words nor
sulky silence. Love is lightning-rod
that disarms all thunder-c clouds; and
she is well equipped. But she is not
without a will of her own not she.
She does not believe that her husband
is a king who can do no wrong, nor an
infallible Pope who can make no mis-
takes. She is often wiser than he, and
she knows it and she has the grace to
stand up for her own opinion against
all her world, that is, her home COM
panions. But she believes that two
cannot walk together unless they be
agreed, and when her husband is not
man enough to yield to her, she is wo-
man enough to yield to him. When
she yields, it is cheerfully, in the sub
mission of love to love, not in that of
weakness to power.
men to serve and women to be served
and certainly she does not believe that
he made women to serve and men to be
served. She is no mans servant no
man is hers. They are co-workers.
She is not ashamed to be found in her
working clothes, in nursery, kitchen or
cellar. She has as little inclination as
time for folded hands; and however
many servants her husbands purse may
put at her disposal, she is their tue
mistress, and buster, though with
higher industry, than they all. Her
children imbibe her spirit. And it is
her husbands fault, not hers, if they
sit ut ease in the parlor while she tolls
in the kitchen.
She knows the depth of her husbands
purse and never touches the bottom of
it. She breads debt because it brings
cale to his brow and dishonor to his
name. She would rather eat dry bread
than borrowed butter. She shares her
husbands cares; he shares hers. She
proves her love by putting his end of
their mutual burdens on his shoulders;
and every burden is lightened to both
by the common bearing of it. 1t is Il
poor love that coddles husband, un-
less he is weak in body or in mind.
Busy though she be, she makes leis-
ure for herself, leisure to sit down qui-
city to repose with her husband and
her children. She will not suffer her
cares to absorb her. She is less anxious
to be a good hOuse-keeper than good
home-keeper and she gives, not mere
ly her energies, but herself to those
whom she loves. So cOurtship lasts all
through the married life and the hus-
band never goes elsewhere to find the
quiet and cOngenial companiOnship
which is denied him at home. In bIiet,
she is Mary and Martha by turns, and
knows when to he each.
When at last death summons her she
feels no fear. She bids goOd-by to
those whose guardian angel she has
been, with no forebodings for herself
and few for them, since she trusts both
them and herself in the hands of the
same Heavenly Father. But when she
is gone the light of their household is
; for the Christ that has
been III her has made her as al incar-
nation of him who is love to those she
loved. And long after her chair is va
cant the memory of her presence lin
gers, the inspiration and the restraint
of the lonely children and the lonelier
father AMI the hope of possessing her
and receiving her glad
greeting in the great day of resurrec-
ton, is the strongest as it is the hottest
motive of their lives, next to the hope
of the appreciation and The welcome of
Christ himself