Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-10-21

sure-trOve of warm human affection be-
slowed upon her, for young Dorothy
loves her aged cousin very dearly, and
is never better pleased than when enter
tanning her In her pretty home, for she
is now Mrs. Philip Bertram, and the
happiest little matron under the sun.
Obedience.
How terribly we are all afraid of that
word obedience. ever striving to shake
off the yoke God has put upon u.s.
wives, obey your husbands children,
obey your parents; servants, obey your
| masters"
"Wives obey your husbands It is a
divine command ; it echoes down from
age to age, reverberating through the
corridors of all time. To obey is the
hardest lesson a wife learns, and one
many never learn at all. They do not
recognize it as Divine command, they
only regard it as mans arrogance and
love of authority. Obedience signifies
inferiority, they think, and that is what
no woman cares to acknowledge herself.
No law which comes from Divine au-
thority has the force of degrading the
one on whom that law is imposed
Obedience does not necessarily imply
inferiOrity, nor is subordination to one
in authority degradation. If rulers were
notInecessary in the household and the
State they would not have been appoint
ed by Him who is wiser than man. If
rulers are not obeyed, anarchy and riot
ensue, and, if only for the sake of insur-
ing order and peace, obedience should
be cherished as one of the most impOr-
tant of household virtues. There can
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and both revelation and nature teach us
who that one is. In the short sentence,
1.-THE husband is the head of the wife, ("
we are told into whose hands God has
placed the regal wand of household pow
er.
Obedience lies at the very root of
domestic life; it is the chief corner stone
in the temple. "Children, obey your
parents" is divine injunction, but one
which the modern child is unwilling to
heed. Shaking off the parental yoke,
like wind he "goeth where he listeth :"
and by his contempt for home authority
he places another element of discord in
the household, for confusion must follow
in the train of disobedience to law.
Servants, obey your masters" comes
from the same Divine source. Wife,
children, servants-the triple, wreath OF
hOme-bOund and made secure by the
husband Tor house-band, who is head
over all-the dominant power invested
with authority by Him who is ruler and
governor over an entire universe.
The thought of the power and place
God has bestowed upon man should not
fill him with arrogance and conceit on
the contrary, he should ask himself the
question, "Who is sufficient for these
things?" Itshould inspire him with
tenderness, love and consideration for
those who have been placed under him
and, while wearing the purple of froyalty
he should never loosen his grasp on the
sceptre of justice.
WHAT IS CASTLE SOAP.-A subscri-
Der wishes to know how this differs
from other soap. The hard soaps made
in this country are almost exclusively
from animal fats in the south Of Eu-
rope, where the olive grows abundant
ly, the poorer kinds of olive oi. are used
for soap making. Common soaps are
soda and animal fat, CASTLE soap is scda
and vegetable oil. In making CASTLE
soap, great care is token to avoid an ex.
cess ofalkali (the soda, only just enough
being used to neutralize the oil. On this
account the soap is much milder, and
may be used on wounds and other sur,
faces where common soap would irritate
and give pain. The mottled appearance
of CASTLE soap is due to small quantity
of solution ofcopperas (sulphate of iron
which is stirred into it before it ha1 dens
this leaves blush oxide of iron in the
soap, which, when exposed to the air,
becomes changed to the red-oxide.-
White CASTLE soap is also sold, which i.
the same as the other, without the color
ing. Though called CASTLE, it is by M
means exclusively made in Spain, tn,
largest share coming from the South O
France, and indeed it is generally
known in Europe as Marseilles SOAP
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| CHARLES LAMB TO YOUNG MEN,
The waters have gone over me. Blu
out OF the black depths could be heard
could cry out to all those who have bu
set foot in the perilous flood. Coul(
the youth to whom the flavor of his frs
wine Is delicious as the opening scene:
OF life, or the entering upon some newly
discovered Paradise, look into my desc
latlon, and be made to understand wha
dreary thing it is when a man shal
feel himself going down precipice will
open eyes and passive will-to see hi
destruction, and have no power to stor
1t, and yet feel it all the way emanatin,
from himself; to see all godliness emp
tied out of him, and yet not able to for
get time when it was otherwise; t.
bear about him the piteous spectacle @
his own ruin. Could he see my fevere,
eye-feverish with the last night
drinking and feverishly looking for to
nights repetition of the folly; could h
but feel the body of the death out G
which l cry, hourly with feebler outcry
TO pe deiivered-it were enough to max
him dash the sparkling beverage to th
earth in all the pride of its mantlin
temptation.
Marriage is feast, where the grac
IS sometimes better than the dinner
Cotton.