Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1880-11-24


US through a woman.
For even maternity touches the
oders of mortality; and VIC first learn
from her that the greatest duties only
bear the blessings when they are
waierod with suffering.
Sloelyard, coral, bay water, saffron,
blue ribbon.
One Of The first things that discover
ed nov vas that baby was bridge.
For whole year my family altar
had been surrounded by an impossible
chasm. l had tSo sets Of relations in
the world, and believe they had come
to the edge Of the abyss, in the dark,
and scowled across at me aud mine.
Nov. to my amazemcnt, found that
the little pink creature that had at
home could stretch Its tiny arms across,
and that mothcr-ln-law and aunts could
walk over on them.
forgot to say that 1t was Il girl.
There was no evidence Of The fact TO
my own senses, but accepted the word
OF experts.
When a baby comes into such a
house bold, /. draws of about one-third
OF Tie mothers consideration. The
f,st one TO notice it is the father.
Cons Quoutly one of the immediate
results o! a baby is sort Of inhuman
jealousy. Of which be is heartily asham-
cd and tries to hide. but which bis wife
unerr.ugly detects, aud good>naiuredl y
forgiyes. It's so natural. she says, for
oie laby % be Jealous OF another.
Sui. ii is impossible to hate it.
Tried my best for long time to
.pse 1t. l cndeavored to believe
that it broke my rest. That it exacted
100 much attention. That it was a
Il iisance. And | tried 10 dream at
night of boarding it ont in the country,
where there were fine cows and wet
nurses upon tho thousand bills. aud no
phtheria. Bn. inslead.I dreamed that
somebody was pcliing me with ripe,
warm peaches. out of the sun. and |
woke up to fad roth its fists in my face.
| think u rti-acd year or so. Then
/ il began to cLauee into she. l first
noticed this il strong tendency 10
nurse the brassheadcd poker, and to
put the prayer book to bed in The cradle
or in nj ciIar box. Farther evidence
wa, furnished by the discovery Of a
CROWN. couGd.nce between the mother
aud daughter Oh matters Of which was
profoundly ignorant. Beng mysteri-
oas knew she must be girl.
Now let me run rapidly over the
events or the LeXt ff.een years, for l
am chiefly anxious to show you how
love, to pat it plainly, brings man
first under subj ction by means Of sell
islness, and how marriage stamps it
all ont OF HIM.
He frs, wi1s n woman. Then she
ard circumstances conquer him. One
of The early and peculiar amu3eme nts
Of the married par is to set HER up and
trace out themselves in the picture. -
Father aud mother usually get mixed
up ia the most absurd manner 10 the
youug veins. FIRST drop OF brute.
then a corpuscle Of angel. Eyebrows
him to hair; tips Of ears-hers Turns
her left toe in like you do, my dear and
then lhat lock on the right temple
The fun Of fitis, nobody else can see
these things at all.
For the goddess Of connubiality pres
ents to her votaTes magic pair OF
spcctacles. warranted 10 zee ourselves
as TO Others see lis.
Wen, -pent eileen years in ASST
diously winding mysel. about that girl.
Sne was M pupil, my companion, my
alter co. Size got SO she could under
stand NE before spoKe. In her were
the fcw strong points Of my character
all sonencd, refined and shsrpeued by
The mothers influence.
\ man eau do a great deal of winding
IN Gllecn years. lie thinks he fasiens
his ilys securely, when spder-hke, he
enmesles tbis golden cocoon.
But one day it bursts open, and some
thing flies away.
Il takes your whole fifteen years
with it like a week.
There Is no use guarding our sanctu-
arg night and day.
Eternal vigilance is only the price OF
liberty. when you have seutineled.
locked. harricadcd. walled up the Jewel,
somebody who never spent ten minutes
in guarding it, who has no knowledge
of lis priceless value, who is utterly un.
Ike it IN every respect, Will come in
like a conqucror and snatch it from you.
Then, when YOU rise in your wrath
YOU will find that all the bonds Of ff-
teen years are upon your own limbs.
All You have done to keep your angel
near your heart Is to give it wings.
Aud its mother will look at you
demurely and tell you that all this
grand protesting spirl. is
What?
Selh-hness.
Aud that women cease 10 be babies
when they cease TO be infants.
In short, to be a man, you must let
somebody else have his way.
4 man has to go through all these
crises IN order to learn the moral lessons