Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1880-07-17

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| tur mercy sake, good people, II you have
any qulrr,i, or what is cjmmonly called equab-
bic, 10 your home circle, keep it to yourselves
The world at large is not interested 10 your
household disputes aud only regards them with
a curious eye.
Are you y worse off than your mel ghbor,
that ike the bind beggsr's pleclrd you should
or We so publicly f)r pity
| Ten chaGc2s to one, you who tell your woes
! to the world are the one that is 10 fault, and
your wife or husband it may bel il too proud
or served to tell her or bis side of the dispute
aud that therefore is never known.
If The source of these quarrels were sought
out, they would be found very small and petty.
For illustration Husband probably ms 10
at night from work, or "loa6og" m ,ybe tired,
maybe uo'. He hDgs hlm'ef down on the
easiest air 10 the room, and calls loudly to
| his wife for supper.
Wife comes in from where she has been put.
ting the numerous children to BID, and sitting
| down by him remarks with weary sigh !:
| 'Oa, desr, sm 80 tired Do, Johu, dear,
get your supper from that sdsboard youder."
John dear" regards her With q sooRl aud
remarks aloud. grltA5-
Tired can't Tor the life of me see what
you have got to tire you. Sitting about the
house all day doing Dotipg CT reading and
sleening"
Now, JOhu," IS he answer, ,remo oustr.tingly,
"how can you say that when you know that [
have to cook and clean ~, and have last put
the six children to bed p
"Put the s'x children to fddlosticks |" is the
auiable answer; land as for the crokiug and
c!eanog up | could do it in FIVE MINUTES"
Il wish you would try it then. replies wife,
the ast bit sharply and the tears springing to
her eyes
When l was boy my mother" begins
John.
II DON'T wish to hear anything about your
vell.sting mother" cries wife. Indignantly
spriugng to her feet. only wish she had
you back again."
mute Indignation Of John, and exit of wife
10 aogry tears
Theu particular freud or two has the fact
c1nhded TO them that my vile has devil Of
q temper.
Oh, John, dear Johu, did not you aggravato
her to this sams display of temper2
Sometime the fault is on the other side, but
10 tits particular case John was undoubtedly in
the wrIne; for it is strange fact, as strange
as 1t is rue, that there are very few Johns or
any other meo in this world who give their
mothers, wives or sisters credit for work dore,
or are even willing to admit In fact that work
| has becu done.
What Is the reasou of this? There are some
few Wao give honor where honor is DUE" but
thes: are the exceptions to the rule.
Now 1t john had only given little sympathy,
praise or encouragement how much pleasantcr
II would have been, tor there is no doubt about
| 1t that
| Love lightens labor"
Oh, husbands, listen. AMI wives pay heed
house that IS divided against tseIf must Dccd.
| fall
| Qaarre as little as possible; and if you must
aeu will quarrel let neither tell or Complain of
the other, even to the nearest fri I'D.
| Home life is sacred, aud though sympathy
may be sweet, yet the price paid to attain it is
too dear, for what can compare with the loss of
love that must ensue if either Of the pair dis
cover that the other is telling tales out of
school,"
When was married years ago rough corn
field negro, one of the former slaves of the fam.
lily, gave me q pi ce Of advice on my embsrkiop
% the troubled sea of ms,rinony
| Honey, nebber you tell anyth thing to odder
people sglo your parduer. When ings blongs
to you i! blongs to you,"
This advice from an uneducated negro may
well be listened 70 BY many of the upper classes,
for it nay be entitled truth in nutshell"
| With the tongue praise we God, and with
the tongue cure VIC men. and if We do not *,
sotly curse we say sharp words, that when the
heat Of anger ba. p .ssed leaves always q siog
| 10 the miod.
Life at the best is bu! "a winters day." and
when the end of the day comes aud all of Iite's
trials arc to be ended; when we lay down our
often se.impesed cross. how can we expec; to
wear the crown when We have borne the cross
| so unWilIiugly?
Hu bands aud wives, learn to bear aud for.
aud nothing c,n alter the fact that if two would
live tog.tber they must be agreed.
If uot for your own sakes, fur the sake of ex
annie to yJur children eudesvor to preserve
perfect harmony. aud not let them in after years
lock back and think With wondering regret
| and shame OF bow the two who had been to
them 10 place of Gol bad passed their lives in
quarrciog with each other.
"B, the day weary. be the day long.
At length it rlngeth to even sopg,''
And when the cool, quiet time of the "eyen
song" has really coms, aod the cold hands,
worn and hardened BY c,aseless toll, are folded
10 resi- (uaybs the only rest they ever kpew 10
your seIVlcs), what bitter memories for the one
that is left to lock bsck ADD think, IF what
might have been had ouly been IL
The heart is now so Q Id and silent that even
cur clutterable pain cannot awaken it. The
weary teet bad tax 50 .'eps ia our service,
aid the tired htn"s, o. folded idly, bad n.ver
Wearied 10 90 uaremun ,rative toll tor one from
whom nothing bad been asked but love and
kiudoess. And had thess b.eo given! Alas
vs. turI aside With bitter tears and leave that
que stlou unanswered. -
We tad iov d, it ls true. but We had foreoh
ten nr uegIeored to show our love, and now
God pity us-it was too late.
i Reader, and you Who still have little time