The state journal., 1884-08-02
FOR MAN AND WIFE.

The instinct toward neatness and
beauty dies hard in womankind, but it
can be utterly destroyed by the slow
process of Encouragement and the fact
that nobody cares. The truth is, that
human beings need not only to see clean
Illness but to see freshness, variety and
change; and the house cleaning should
be no more an object ofpleasure and
interest to the woman than to
the man. There is much that
she can do without him. She can scrub
the floor, but he could and should whiten
the ceiling. She cannot paper the walls,
perhaps, though many farmers wife
has done even that; but give her the
money, ana she will buy the paper and
find some one to hang it. Alter her
willing hands have scrubbed away last
years llyspcCks, any man that can handle
tools can make the frames for screens
for her windows and doors. If, besides
this, he buys the prepared paints, and
little by Little gives fresh coat for the
various rooms, it is no more than his
share of the task
THE MISERY OT UNEQUAL MARRI-
AGES
Unequal marriages are probably Of less
importance 10 this country than in any
other, and there is nothing TO stand in
the way of laborer's daughter becom
ing a lady of education and refinement
or q gardeners son .eXemplifying in his
own person the romantic history of
Claude Melnotte. And yet of all the
fruitful sources Of human misery not one
is more prolific than a marriage between
4 pair who have had different social
training. Parents cannot forgive it, and
society rarely condones the otfense. In
England a man can raise his wife, if She
be good and honest, to his own position
in life. A woman if she makes
a mesalliancc, sinks at once to the
level of the man she marries. In this
country the disruption of family ties, un
congenial associations, leading to weari
ness, safety, disgrace, and even crime,
are the almost inevitable results of ill
assorted matches, and they are often
equally disastrous to both the contracting
parties.
STOPPING A CATTLE STAMPEDE
zone of the smaltcst things | ever saw
in my travels, said a passenger from the
West, to n newspaper reporter, was u
cowboy stopping cattle stampede. A
herd of about six or eight hundred had
got frightened at something, and broke
away pell nell with their tails in the air
and the bulls at the head of the process
sion. But Mr., Cowboy didn't get excited
at all when he saw the herd going for a
straight bluff where they would GER
tainly tumble down intOA canyon and be
killed.
'Hou know that when herd like that
gets to going, they can't stop, no matter
whether they rush TO death or not
Thosein the rear crowd those ahead, and
away they go. | wouldn't have given q
dollar ahead for the herd; but the cowboy
spurred up his mustang, made little de
tour, came right in front af the herd, cut
across their pathat Alright angle and then
galloped leisurelv on 10 the edge of that
bluff; halted, and looked around at that
wild mass of beef coming right toward
him. He was cool as cucumber, though
| expected to sec him killed, and was so
excited L could not speak.
"Well, when the leader had got within
about q quarter of mile of him. saw
him try to slack up though they could
not do it very quick. But the whole
herd seemed to want to stop, and when
the COWS and steers in the rear got about
where the cowboy had cut across their
path, / was surprised to see them stop
and commence to nibble at the grass.
Then the whole herd stopped, wheeled,
staggled back, and went to fighting for a
chance to eat where the rear guard was.
''You see, that cowboy had opened a
big bag of salt he had brought out from
the ranch to give the cattle, galloped
across the herds course and emptied the
bag. Every critter shifted that line Of
salt, and, of course, that broke up the
stampede. But tell you it was queer
sight to see that man ont there on the
edge of that bluff quietly rolling a cigar
ette, when itseemed as though he'd been
lying under 200 tons of beef in about q
minute and hall"