Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1879-05-03
AN INTERESTING AND USEFUL
BOOK.

Some time since number of choice
books were sent to this Office by
Robert Clarke & Co., Of Cincinnati,
Ohio. Among them was one entitled
"Generalship; or, How l Managed
My Husband" Instead Of being, as
the title would indicate, DISGUST
ton upon the way in which married
woman can acquire and retain entire
control of her reputed lord and mas
ter. it is really q most laudable, yet
unpretending adviser of the way in
which both man and wife should de-
mean themselves toward one another,
in order to live in harmony, and
within their means. The following
extract from the concluding chapter
will give our readers an insight INTO
the aim Of the work:
Before taking leave o. my reader,
/ must drop a word of warming to
wives in general. I would have
every wife to beware of seeking to
obtain any article of dress, furni-
ture. or household accommodation,
which her husband is not we'll able
to afford. For any wife to go into
expenditure beyond her husbands
income is simply dishonest, and leads
certainly to ruin. Unjust warn every
wife to beware of telling her husband
anything that is not strictly true;
there is no necessity for telling even
a husband all the truth at all times
but nothing that is untrue can in any
circumstances be pardoned. All
wives, too, should beware of seeking
TO rule their husbands; and when 1t
is necessary for woman to put her
hand to the helm, she should spare
no pains to make the world believe
il IS her husband who is steering.
! have parting word to say to
my auld neighbors, who still occupy |
ono or two rooms and kitchen; and
that word is this: l was just as
happy in my first humble abode as
am with my town and country houses.
Indeed, often think l had surely |
far more hearty fun and innocent
mirth lang.syne than | have now.
It is my candid opinion that there
are, proportionstely, as many clear
heads, and as many warm hearts, in
the humble dwellings of honest in
dustry as in the stately mansions OF
the rich; and that both wisdom and
wit may be met with as frequently in
two rooms and a kitchen as in a self
contained house.
I therefore, in bidding my readers
adieu, counsel all to seek, in their re-
spectiye circumstances, contentment |
the only certain source of happi-
ness.
This il not, however, a sermon pub.
lished In book form, as might be in
ferrsd from perusal of the extract
above quoted. 1t is really a recital
of events within the domestic circle
during period Of forty years, COW
ering the courtship, marriage and
subsequent life Of the principal char
acters referred to. In telling of the
more important happenings which
went to make up the life of Scotch
couple who started out in the world
sin two rooms and Kitchen" and
brought up in fine mansion for
"toon" house, and large estate for
q country residence, the author has
scceptably and very pleasantly
blended the grave and the gay, and
the reader, if at all impossible, ex-
periences, while reading it, all the
emotions of Joy and grief of which
human nature is capable. 1t is a
book which cannot do any harm,
and can do great deal OF good. 1t
should be read by all married per-
sons. 1t is neatly bound in blue
cloth, the title being done in gold,
and can probably be ordered through
w. II. Ash, or Fred. Boegle, of Vir-
ginia, for seventy-five cents or one
dollar.