Richland beacon., 1881-03-26
POOR NEWS WIVES.

wives. professedly, even though they
may be so in reality. The girl who
marries upon 81 900 year looks forward
to a life spent in second rate boarding
houses, from which she will squeeze
out certain cheap domesticity and
some expensive pleasures. The children
which Heaven may send are not thought
OF nor provided for. 1t is a question
whether the young wife can make her
self dress, or prepare herself a whole
some meal of victuals. She marries
for freedom, to have good time, TO
spend money which she neither earns,
nor helps TO earn-for Heaven knows
what-but certainly not to make com
Portable, if humble, home for her hus-
band. In this respect We consider the
British girl has An immense advantage
over the American. From the highest
to the lowest circles of society in Brit
ain, girls are trained to make good and
useful wives, inasmuch as ladies preside
over the departments of their household
and see that everything is kept clean,
and the food is well cooked so also in
the lower classes mothers teach their
daughters to do the same for themselves,
without suffering any loss of dignity IN
the doing of it. Many of our
American girls will be surprised
to learn that the Princess Louise
frequently makes her pastry-and
makes it we'll, too. On one occasion,
some apricot tarts of her making being
praised by q guest, the royal lady wrote
out the recipe, with the words under
lined, "If you desire to have an apricot
tart properly cooked, always make 1t
with an upper crust!" The story has
point, and the point is that one can
never know how to do a thing too well.
One of the great hindrances against get
ting a good wife arises from the false
basis upon which society is constructed.
Tho idea that equality is the peculiar
birthright of all Americans is erroneous.
Where every person thinks he or she is
a good as the next, there is always the
opposite proof of incOmpetency. A
person is neither better nor worse thar
another except in the degree of worth
which is honestly sought to be attained.
But the dispositions Of young women
of the present day (and the same may
be said largely Of young men, though
perhaps not to the same extenD is to
think they are as good as any one else,
without taking the trouble to be so.
From this erroneous belief arises many
Of tho evils from which society suffers.
-KingstOn Freeman.
..'... CHANGED HIS OPINION.
John Bright is a charming companion.
Seldom does political opponent come
into his company without being
fascinated by the man, though he may
dislike the politician. An English es-
sayist tells story which illustrates MIR.
Bright's power as a companion.
One of the great orators recreations is
billiards. At seaside hotel, he once
strolled into the public billiard-room
Finding there q stranger, the two played
several games, neither knowing who thu
other was. e...
The stranger happened to be fierce
Tory, q manufacturer from Yorkshire
who hated John Bright and his Liberia
politics with equal intensity
While the game was going on. TIT
Tory's wife learned that her husban'
was in company with the famous Libera
orator. Alarmed, since she had hear'
him speak bitterly against Mr.. Bright
she anxiously asked:
"Are they fighting?
An hour or two after the husband re
turned to his room, rubbing his hands
and in the best of humor. He had ha
such good time at billiards with
most pleasing stranger, and they were
play again on the morrow.
"why," exclaimed the lady. sit
John Bright you have been playin
with !"
The Tory was sobered for . momel
by the news. But, recovering himsel
he remarked that "those newspaper
always did lie about people," And,
d, the astonishment of his wife, he a
. nounced that, under certain circun
stances, he himself might vote for job
Bright. ( r +
The story is . good one, and ms
serve to remind us Of what We need
have frequently recalled, that even p
htical opponent may be good man ar
charming companion:
-,-....-..Ev.a IN . man?" they ssked o' u
> s.,aerioot when he arrived ss Dea
~ood. "Reckon I have. several
- rsplied. More respectful in manner tn.
-. ..f.d: "shoot him!" "No." "Kn'
h;mg~ "No." "Club him to death
"No" "Poison?" "No, sir! IN
how did you ever kill man'" "Dro
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