The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1878-08-14
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side door OF a good looking larm house
residence and told such a sorrowful
story that the lady of the house was
not stingy in throwing provision in
to his basket. Happening to look
into the front yard, after a few min
utes, she saw the strange boy mixed
up with her three or four children
and she called out;
"Boy, what are you doing here2'
"Feedin' these halfstaryedehildren
he promptly replied. "But those arc
my children!" she indignantly ex,
claimed, @Makes no difference tc
me-" he said, as he broke Of another
piece of cake. "When / finda young
'un cryin' for bread, an ready tc
swear that he hasn't tasted pie fol
over year, I'm going to stop bust
ness and brace him up! Haven't you
got a clean white jacket that | could
put on this dirty little boy?" She
look up an down the road tosee ifany
canvassers for the poor heathen were
in sight. and then she grabbed the
broom and ran the sympathetic boy
out of the yard.
But few readers ever think of the
labor and care devolvinG upon an
editor. Captain Marryatt says: 81
know how a periodical will wear
down ones existence. Il itself it
appears nothing; the labor is not
manifest; nor is it in the labor; it is
the continual attention that it re-
Quires. Your life becomes, as it were,
the publication. One days paper is
no sooner corrected and'ptinted than
on comes another. 1t is the stone Of
Sisyphus, and endless repetition of
toll, and constant weight upon the
intellect and spirits, demanding all
the exertion Of your faculties at the
same time that you are compelled to
the severest.drpdgery. To write for
paper is very well, but to edit one
is to condemn yourself to slavery"
The Changes That Occur in the
First Ten Years Of Married Life.
A young woman during the first
week of her married life entertains
vague suspicious that theslatements
heart is through lis mouth, are true.
Her Charles, who is almost if not
quite, exempt from human faiIings,
has already manifested a profound
admiration for veal pies, and has
openly expressed his detestation to
oyerdone mutton. She accordingly
builds up within her fortress of res
olution, in which to guard that sac
red treasure of husbands affection.
In her girlhood this young woman
had spent much time in cultivating
her musical taste, in reading Emer-
son and Carlyle; she had been fond of
pretty landscapes, and could use her
pencil with effect, and she had been
heard to declare with pride that when
she married she would give up none
of these things.
Let US visit her now at the end OF
ten years of matrimony, and we will
find that she has brokon her vow and
thrown it to the winds. We find u
tiresome sort tof person, whose whole
intellect is absorbed in attending to
the cares of housekeeping, and in get
ting stylish dresses for her children.
Her conversation rises seldom above
the level of infant gossip and SER
wants, and the only ideas devcloped
by time and experience are express
ed in her conviction that men are
the most abused and self-sacriticing.
There is a great evil somewhere,
but what is it? The husband ac'
knowledges to himself that he is dis,
appointed in the wife he has chosen,
and yet he finds difficulty in point
ing out his mistake, and hardly finds
cause to blame her, for is she not a
faithful wife, devoted mother and
Il frugal manager? The mistake is
a national Characteristic. So pas
sionate and intense is the American
mind in pursuit of its temporary in
terests, the men will suffer the chains
of business to bind them down and
throttle them, while their wives bent
beneath u similar yoke of duty at
home.
What is lacking is the power tc
rise above the petty annoyances o.
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