Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1879-08-21

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science that requires the amount of art, the
display of patience, hard study, dilligent
application and untiring, undaunted energy
as does hat of the busy, loving housewife.
Who will dare say it is not art of a high
order-pure heart-art, if | may use such u
word-for a woman, though much perplex-
ed by the many trials incident to her lot, to
meet her husband and children with a smil-
ing face, striving to keep all unpleasant
things in the background, SO that home will
be ever to them a bright spot, glorified by
her sunny smile and genial presence.
1t is true such a woman has d reward.
both in her own conscience and the smiles
and love of her family, but that SO many
homes Of our land have not this brightness
is a sad fact. If home is the place where
faces are sour and words harsh, and fault
finding is ever in the ascendant, the father
and children will spend as much time else
where as possible-especially the children.
Then let every father and mother be happy,
and show their happiness hourly.
Lowell's epitome of womal's worth is
given in a few lines, and L would that every
husband in the land could see in them a
picture of his own wife
:Blessings she is-God made her so; ~"
And deeds of weekday holiness
Fall from her, noiseless as the snow;
Nor hath she ever CHANGED to know M 5
That aught were easier than to bless
How many of us know and daily demon
strate in our lives that nothing is easier than
to bless?
1t is IAN important feature in household
lore to be able to retain the husbands love
as bright a flame in old age as when a
bright, laughing maiden, she won it. This
art has many ways Of accomplishing it's
ends, many of them trivial in themselves,
yet filling important inches in the whole
structure. Among all faces she must keep
hers the brightest and %sunnie,t to him her
eyes must shine with the steadiest love-tirm,
truthful, honest eyes, ready to shed a tear
or flash our merriment. Her hands must
be helpful hands, always ready to help her
husband, to hold up and strengthen him
when he is weak and her mouth, that
most expressive of all features, / beg of you,
women of America, don't let it settle into
hard lines. Keep your brows fair and
smooth in the sight OF God; don't wrinkle
them with cross thoughts! Don't worry
and fret! Meet the inevitable ills of lite
nobly and unflinchingly. Let patience pos
sess your souls; let love fill your hearts +;
let words OF gentleness flow from your lips,
and deeds of charity fall from your hands.
We are all having our influence on others,
and thinking of this, let us strive to make
our lives pure. Would that the beautiful
words of a late writer could be realized in
our lives +" When the winds of trouble
searched the branches OF that life, they
blew down the seeds of no impotence and
no fretfulness."
There is another gem of art, priceless in
a home, which if not a natural growth,
should be cultivated with great care and
diligence 1t is the grace of mutual con-
tidence. There is a greater lack of conf
dence than is generally supposed to exist.
1t does not show itself by asking outright
questions, but by hints and insinuationls.
Now all this is wrong, tor no woman should
ever marry a man till she knows he loves
her as the one woman in the world for him !:
till she knows past doubt that he is a gen
tleman in every sense of the word, and till
she knows she loves him supremacy.
Unless you can feel when left by one,
That all men beside go with him;
Unless you can dream that his faith is fast,
Through behooying and unbehooving;