Smyrna times., 1882-11-29
Husband and Wife.

They lived a very TRANQUIL life an,
Clara had no grief of her own. unles
IL was that there seemed to be no pres
things she could do for him. One dav
when she whimsically complained o
thlS' he said: Pm very glad of that
Let try to be equal to the little sacri
hces we must make for each other
they will be quite enough. Many ,
woman who would be ready to die fo
her husband makes him wretcbeC
because she won't live for him. Dom
despIse the day of small things"
! Yes, but when every day seems the
oay OF small things!" she pouted.
Every day is the day of small
things" said Atherton, with peopl.
who are happy. We're never so pros
porous as when we can't rememhA,
what happened last Monday"
"Oh, but I can't bear to he alwav,
living in the present"
Its not so spacious, l know &c
either the past or the future: but it's
all We have"
There !" cried Clara, that's fatal.
Ism ! It's worse than fatalism ~
And is fatalism so very bad ? asked
her husband.
It's Mahomedanism =,
Well, it isn't necessarily a plurality
oi wives returned Atherton, in subtle
anticipation of her next point. And
it's really only another name for resip.
nation which is certainly good thing. !"
Resignation? Oh, l don't know
about that
Atherton laughed and put his arm
round her waist-an argument that no
woman can answer i'll a man she loves.
1t seems to deprive her of her reason
ing faculties. In the atmosphere of
alectlon which she breathed she some
times feared that her mental powers
were really weakening.
AS girl she had lived a life full of
purposes, which, if somewhat vague
were unquestiOnably large. She had
then had great interests-art. music
literature, the symphony concerts. Mr.
Hunts classes, the novels of Georoa
Eliot and Mr.. Fiske's lectures on the
cosmlc philOsophy-and she had ALWAYS
lelt that they expanded and elevated
existence. In her moments ofquestion
as to the shape which her life had taken
Slnce' she tried to think whether the
happiness which seemed so little de.
pendent on these things was not be.
meath the demands of spirit which
was probably immortal and was GER
Lalnly cultivated, They all continued
TO be part of her life, but only a very
small part, and she would have liked to
ask her husband whether his Influence
upon her had been wholly beneficial
ohe was not sure that it had, but
neither was she sure that it had not.
She had never fully consented to the |
distinctions with which he classified all |
1er emotions and ideas as those of a
woman; in her heart she doubted
great many of them might
lot De those of a man, though she had
never found any of them exactly like
lis. She could not complain that he
I'D not treat her as an equal; he defer
ed to her and depended upon her
'ood sense to an extent that sometimes
Harmed her, for she secretly knew that
he had very large streak of Stiffness
II her nature. He seemed to tell her
verything and to be greatly ruled bv
Ter own advice, especially in matters
Il business; but she could not helm
deserving that he often kept matters
INVOLVING certain moral questions from
Ter till the moment for deciding them
'as past. When she accused him of
his he confessed that it was so. but
efended himself by saying that he was
trald her conscience might sway
i'm against his judgment.