Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-06-20
WORTHLEssNEss OF SOME MEN.

WORTHLESSNESS OF SOME MEN.
ALEX Cor. Suffolk Herald1
young married lady called to see me
this morning about getting her husband in
some employment. She was a handsome,
sprightly little woman. had never seen
her before She had no claims on me, but
she thought had some influence with rail
road officials and might help her and help
him. Her husband was q mechanic. He
was out of work. She said to me 'Mr.-
Pax, he had situation, but he felt that his
wages were too small and he gave up the
place in hopes that he mi ght find a better
place, but he has not succee ded."
"How much was he getting ~ | asked.
'He was getting seven dollars 4 week" !"
she answered.
"How much is he getting now ~ asked.
"Why, he's getting nothing" she an
swered.
'Do you think ne acted wisely" said I,
"to give up his position on small pay and
run the risk OF weeks of idleness with no
work, no pay, no support for his dependent
family, hoping, with no prospect, to find
better place and bigger pay"
"No, sir,' she said "but one of the men
where he worked was so disagreeable that
my husband said he could not stand it,
"Is it not vastly more disagreeable and
nconvenint TO have q dependent family
and be out Of work and no income, other
than that derived from ones daily labor,
than to edure the unpleasantness ofa chursh
fellow-workman ?"
"Ycs, sir" she answered, 'it is and that's
what told him; but he would give up his
place, and now he's got nothing to do, and
is getting nothing for his family to live
upon.'
This is one case of thousand. Some
men are not satisfied to let we'll enough
alone. Some men reason in this way ''Ne
loaf is better than half 81 loaf," and they
take off their aprons and drop their tools
and give up their situations, and expert
ment on the reversion Of the old and true
maxim that "half loaf is better than no
loaf"
No pot boils under this experiment. The
experiment drives happiness away from the
home, love from the heart, violates clause
of the marriage VOW, and brands the man
fool.
1 said to this lady, MADAM, your hus-
band is like some unwise preachers l know.
They had tolerably good situations-helds
of labor-but some short-horn deacon or
disatfected member said something, or did
something, little dsagreeable, and they
have resigned their charges, and are out Of
employment, with dependent families and
no income, walking about the lions, be-
wailing their condition and blaming every
BODY but themselves for the result of their
own folly"
A man ought never 10 give up certainty
for an uncertainty. Never resign the place
YOU hold unless you have secured another.
Pax has made up his mind never to resign
his pastorate until he has received and ac-
cepted call to another charge. This Civ
ing up and going out-and having nowhere
to 90 in-is not convenient. There may be
disagreeable men, and women, too, in PaX's
church, and they may wish Pax to resign
and leave; but Pax don't see it. lie
loves Mrs. Pax and the little Paxes too
dearly to give up bread and meat and try
the experiment of supporting them on air.
Simply making it hot for Pax will not
start him. If they wish him to give up his
place, like that husband did, they must not
only make it "disagreeable" for him, but in
addition they must procure and secure him
another situation, which means settle him
in another charge. 1t is easier to get another
place when you already have place. That
husband who gave up his seven dollars a
week situation finds it harder to get in
again because he is voluntarily and wilfully
out. Men who are in are in demand.
"No work, no employment, no wages,
better than seven dollars a week. That's
the way the foolish young husband reasoned.
How much better for him and his young
wife if he had stuck to his work and been
faithful in a little There are elements of
true worth and success in man who works
on his principle. He will soon be asked to
step up higher and take more pay.
promised the anxious little wife to do
all could for her.
That worthless man she calls husband has for
gotten his marriage VOWS. He promised to keep
her and provide for her. He is not doing what
he vowed he would do. There are thousands of
men called husbands who are unworthy of the
namo. They cruelty Neglect the woman who has
given up everything for them. Thousands OF
wives are supporting indoent thriftlcss shiftcss,
drunken husbands. There ought to be local
law for all such specimens of humanity, called
men, who do not, and will not provide for wife
and children.
read a paragraph a few days ago expressing
the mutual love of man and woman who were
soon to be married. with such love and dcvo-
tion as ours my darling John, we can live on
bread and water and be happy" said the woman.
ayes. indeed" said John; yes, indeed, Jane, we
can You furnish the bread, and l will scuitie
round and find the water" Water is all that
some husbands put. in the dinner-pot, and some
don't even bring the water. The world needs
Society for the Reformation of Improvident Hus-
bands
PARTIES desirous of having we'll made
garments, fine fitting garments, and artlstic
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