Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1883-07-02


and scolding the children all around
for making noise. His excuse for
the fragility of his temper may be
that his business cares worry him !;
but he should reflect that his wife
has cares quite as burdensome,
and is far more frequently beset with
petty annoyances. He should not
bring clouds home with him. Let
him shake them off when he leaves
his office, or if he cannot do that at
least control himself sufficiently to
forbear adding to his wife's discour-
agements by rebuke or unmerited
neglect just because he feels out of
sorts. The wife will be glad to
sympathize with him if he gives her
a fair chance.
Men, as all women will agree, are
the most inconsistent of creatures.
| once wondered at seeing great,
stalwart, young fellow marry a little,
delicate woman, who was always full
of aches and pains, and did not know
how to boil a potato or bake a bis
cult. 'sShe is so sweet and help
less" he said, in excuse for his folly.
Three years later l heard him COM
plain that his wife ''didn't amount to
to much" The novelty of her sweet
ness and helplessness had worn off
by that time.
1t is very we'll for woman to be
'tsweet and helpless" when in her
fathers house; but it is quite anoth-
er thing when she has house of her
own. Then she must put her shoul-
der to the wheel in good earnest, or
there will soon be clouds in the do
mestic horizon. The patience of a
husband does not usually amount to
more than that of his wife, and in
many cases far too much is expected
of women by their husbands. Their
idea of wife is found in the last
chapter of Proverbs. "She worked
with her hands in wool ndfax," and
in most cases she is expected to work
with her hands in a great many other
things besides ''wool and flax" in
fact, | sometimes feel, when / see
the drudgery some wives of farmers
and others are made to bear, that
would like to put my hands upon the
husbands head and work them in
hair awhile. But this is only in ex-
treme cases, and most men, [ am
happy to say, are men able to reason,
and will listen if the truth is spoken.
They admit that the argument that
women should drudge now because
they drudged in old times is not
worth refuting. Ruth CLEANED in the
fields, but that is no reason why the
young ladies of New York, Boston,
or Chicago, should sally forth to aid
the farmers near the city to plant
their corn. The daughters of the
patriarchs drew water from wells for
the cattle; but should we therefore
insist on every girl arming herself
with pail or bucket, and taking her
place near pump for active service !?
Why should women not profit by our
labor-saving inventions as well as
men?
There are two many men who are
careless of the health and strength of
their wives. They spend hundreds
of dollars in fitting up a store or an
office so that it will be light and con-
venient, but neglect the precautions
which would prevent the wife from
overtaxing herself at home, and are
obllvious of the fact that she is grow
inc worn, and is fading with every
year-or they do not ascribe this de-
terioration to the proper cause.
An idle woman is never a happy
or contented one; but it is even
worse to be over-worked than to be
idle. The husband who truly under
stands his duty will make his wife
happy, not only by providing those
helps to her work which expedite it
but by constant, tender watchful-
ness and care as well, and she vii
not only appreciate, but will thrive
under. And he will not expect hel
to be mistress many trades while
he is master of but one. He ough
to be utterly and entirely satisfied i
she is a good wife, mother and house
, keeper, and not expect her to do he
own cooking, dress-making and mil
linery with all the skill and prudenc
of an expert. In fact he recognize
the fact that he wants a help-meet il
the sense of an equal, for sympathy
! and advice, and comfort, where h
! most needs it, and in the way th
most happiness will accrue to both.
The man who marries for the pun
pose of having cook, servant, mil
liner, and all other trades and pro
: fessions in one, will be sure to b
! woefully disappointed, and miss
what all men want, a loving, true an
= happy wife.-By q Wonadn.
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