Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-30
THE FAMILY CIRCLE.

WHEN BLINDNESS is BLISS.-LOOk IN
many households and you will find men
-keen-witted and of pure taste in all
other matters-not merely making the
best" of the fatal mistake they made in
marriage, but believing with all their
souls in their coarse-grained, frivolous.
selfish wives, adoring them, gratefully
accepting pretty trick of expression.
kind word now and then, in place OF
the noble, womanly heart, the self-sacri-
flee, the devotion which never were and
will be theirs. This peculiar sort Of
blindness, too, does not belong alone to
love or married life. In every family
it is the lazy, selfish, cynical member
who calls it forth. He is most tenderly
cared for; his rare words of affection
are remembered and cherished; young
women make hero of him wherever lie
goes; at home the calf is kept ready to
kill, and the gold chain FURNISHED in
the hope this unrepenting prodigal may
take it into his head to come back, while
the Flooding, unselfish elder brother is
set down as commonplace fellow, and
gets scant thanks for spending his Life
for others.-N. Y. Tribune.
GEORGE d. PREETIcE's ADVICE TO
YOUNG MAN.-To a young man away
from home, friendless and forlorn in
great city, the hours of peril are those
between sunset and bedtime; for the
hour than the sun in his whole days
circuit. The poets visions of evening
are all composed of tender and soothing
images. 1t brings the wanderer to his
home, the child to his mothers arms
the OK to his stall and the weary laborer
to his rest. But to the gentle-hearted
youth who is thrown upon the rocks OF
the pitiless city, and stands homeless
amid thousand homes, the approach
of evening brings with it darkness and
desolation which comes down upon the
spirit like darkness upon the earth. In
this mood his best impulse becomes a
snare to him; and he is led astray be-
cause he is social, afectianate, sympa-
thetic and warm-hearted. If there be a
young man thus circumstanced within
the sound of my voice, let me say to
him that books are the friend of the
friendless, and that library is a home
to the homeless. A taste for reading
will always carry you to converse with
men who will influence you with their
wisdom and charm you by their wit,
who will soothe you when fretted, re-
fresh you when weary, counsel you
when perplexed. and sympathize with
you at all times. Evil spirits in the
middle ages were exercised and driven
away by bell, book and candle, and you
want but two of these agents the book
and the candle.
OvERWoRKED WOMEN. Nothing is
more reprehensible and thoroughly
wrong than the idea that woman full
fills her duty by doing an amount of
work far beyond her strength. She not
only does not fulfill her duty, but she
most signally fails in it, and the failure
is truly deplorable. Ii the work of the
household cannot be accomplished by
order, system, and moderate work, with
out the necessity of wearing, heart
breaking toll, then, for the sake of hui
mainly, let the work go on. The woman
who spends her life in unnecessary
labor is, by this very labor, untitled for
the highest duties of home. She should
NC ol1O hbfCI1 VI LOU W WHICH, DOUu NUS
band and children turn for peace and
refreshment She should be the careful,
Intelligent adviser and guide of one, the
tender contidante and helpmate of the
other. How is it possible for woman
exhausted in bod y-as natural conse-
quence in mind also-to perform either
of these Offices? Her disposition is
ruined, her temper is soured, her very
nature has changed by the burden
which, too heavy to carry, is dragged
along as long as wearied feet and tired
hands can do their part. Even her af-
fections are blunted, and she becomes
merely a machine-a woman without
the time to be womanly, mother with
out the time to train and guide her
children as only a mother can do, a wife
without the time to sympathize with and
cheer her husband, woman so over
worked during the day that when night
comes her sole thought and intense
longing is for the rest and sleep that
very probably will not come, and even
if it should, she is too tired to enjoy
Better by far let everything go unfn-
ished, TO live as best she can, than to
entail on herself and family the curse
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