The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-05-15

Cn6 winning docs not come DeIOro mar
riage, and, if it did, then the keeping of
the love and confidence you have won is
a far higher and more sacred thing.
But this is not what started to say; it
is this: You are both starting out with
bright prospects and every thing to
make home attractive and beautiful;
bat remember, Jessie is but a child,
while you are man of experience
with the world and its usages. You
will find much to jar on your so-called
fastidious fancy, and many girlish traits
that may veX your more mature and
sober judgment. This is her first flight
from the home nest, and you, whose
pinions are strung with long-continued
flight, must not expect her young fut-
| tering wings to sail in as steady course
as yours. Be gentle, patient and hope
full; above all, never allowing her bright
face to be overcast by a single hasty or
rude remark or rebuke by you. If you
would suggest improvement in any
thing, do it gently and so cautiously
that she will imagine herself the one
from whom the suggestion came. And
above all, my boy, l earnestly entreat
that you will never hold me up as pat
! GerH IOF Her TO Initiate.
"Ah, mother mine, that is too much,
for you know that you are perfecGon's
self in my eyes. But think you take
Equite too serious view of the case.
certainly am not of tyrannical dispo-
sition, am I?'' and he leaned over to
press kiss on her brow.
''Far from it, my son, only trihe
hasty and apt to speak before you
weigh your words. But to make YOU
see the Importance of never setting me
as model before her, 1 will tell you
the story of just such another girl whom
know. Like Jessie, she was the
youngest of her family, and INDUCED in
every whim. At eighteen she married
a grave, scholarly man who had just re-
turned from over the seas to take pos
session OF large property in his native
land.
He was one who had been much
courted in society, who had the entire
of many of the best families of the old
world and had spent much time in En-
glish, French, and German country
houses. His tastes, however, turned
more on domestic than public life, and
he determined to make his home per-
feet in its way. All that money could
do to beautify it was done; so when he
opened its doors to his girl-bride, it
seemed to her an earthly paradise. In
a few months, however, thorns began to
work their way through the rose-strewn
path, for her husband insisted on hay
ing the house conducted on the plan of
the English country-seat, and as the
young wife was totally in the dark con-
corning the difference between the cuS-
sine of a cottage and that of mansion,
she at first willingly consented to be
taught. 1t was not long before every
thing done in the house had to have the
authority of Lady Mary this or Lady
Jane that, until the poor child scarcely
dared to dust the parlor except in a
manner approved by some stately dame
for whom she entertained vague dread.
| She should not even manage her
servants according to her own ideas,
but had a volume of ''Advice to Young
Housekeepers regarding Servants,'' by
Lady Susannah Shoroughton," always
at her elbow to turn to in all times of
perplexity.
For a time the young wife, believing
implicitly in her husbands infallibility
regarding domestic management, and
painfully conscious of her own igno-
rance, fully entered into his plans for
her enlightenment. But after
time dim idea that it might be pleasant
to govern her own home without the
aid of so many immaculate house-keep-
ers took possession of her and she said
SO to her husband. He looked up from
the pile of papers which strewed his
study table, and gravely asked her if in
so short time she had thoroughly mas
tered all the principles in the Library
of Domestic Economy which he had
provided for her. What could the poor
child do but go back to the old routine;
but in Fpoor, dispirited way, trem-
bling every time a meal was served lest
the manner of serving should lack au-
thority in one of the big books over
which she had so often cried her bright
eyes dim, and quaking every time visit
ors come, fearing she would not have
every thing to please the morbid foreign
fancy of her husband, who all the time
loved his wife, and would give half his
fortune to see the roses blush on her
cheeks once more.
Two years of this wearing life told
strangely on her never very robust
frame, and physicians ordered her to
the mountains. What vigor she re-
gained there was soon used up in the
old routine when she returned home.
Seeing that the strain was too much for
her, her husband sent for his STEP
mother to come and stay with them for
a while. Unlike the traditional STEP
mother, she was lovely woman, young
er than her step-son, always fortunate,
and never having had much to cloud
her spirits, unless it was the death of
the old man whom she had married out
of gratitude, she was just the one for a
companion. Of a quick, observant
mind, she very soon detected the cause
of the young wife's condition, and lost
no time in impressing it on her STEP
sons mind. Never was man more as
tonished and harder to convince. He
had done it all out of good motives, and
could not see why they failed Finally,
he was persuaded to allow the Library
of Domestic Economy to be consigned
, to the flames, and the doctrine of free
thought and action to replace the Ste
: reotyped rules of the various noble au-
thoresses. When his wife recovered
from long tedious illness which en-