Mexico weekly ledger., 1885-11-19
HUSBANDS AND WIVES.
Rev. Sam Jones on Their Treatment Of
Each Other.

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and Uice persd: "It's ten Thousand |
times harder to be just than gener-
GUS. 1t is easy enough to give a
poor woman a dollar, but when it
comes to follow straight line. being
just in all things, just to God, to
your family, to your children, to all |
men, it is different thing. Some
men are never just to their wives.
They pay their cook SIS very willing
~ Saturday night, but when the
hard working, economical, painstak-
ing wife asks for little money on
Monday the brute will say: %, wife,
what do you want with money! I
know fellow in Georgia who had
been married ten years. His wife
suggested that that was her birthday,
and he said to himself: I've got a
good wife; she has been kind, self
sacrificing and true in all respects;
| must buy her present. So he
went down town that day and walked
into hat store and bought himself
hat, consoling himself that nothing
would more please good wife than
to make her husband a present of a
new hat. He's the meanest man I
ever saw, and there are a great many
men just that way.
We are too often unjust to our
children, exacting from them things
we don't do ourselves, and berating
them with our tongue when they
don't understand what they want.
And then we are too mean to say ten
words to make them happy. Oh,
how unjust we are to wives, hus-
bands, children! If you'll put a lit
tie downright justice in your conduct
to your children you will have hap
pier homes. Did you ever start any
where with your wife and keep her
hurrying up, when you ought to
know that she has not only to dress
herself but five children besides,
while you have nothing TO do but get
ready? Hurry up, hurry up, I don't
want to be late! If you don't hurry
I'll 60 on by myself And after 8
while she tells you to Go on, hus.
band; I'm afraid I can't get ready
in time; I don't want to hinder you.
I've done that way. I have walked
off, out the gate and fifty yards dowr
the road, and then I'd stop and think
I'd say: Sam Jones, you are thu
meanest man living, and you shan
go to church nor anywhere else til
you learn how to behave yourself.
And then l walk back, and go in anG
!, find worry in my wife's face and tear
, in her eyes, and 60 up and put m.
, arms around her and kiss her
there's nobody there but us two
and say: Wife, I'm just as mean a
a dog; I know I am, and I want yo
to forgive me- and she forgives me
, and We get ready and go-and fin!
q. ourselves the first ones there.
h The Lord have mercy on us; ho,
}, unjust we are to our wives, our chill
, Idren, our brothers and sisters, an
our neighbors. There are men il
q this town who meet neighbor's wifi
o on the streets and take off their hat
- and bow and smile so sweet and ter
g derly, How are you, madam an
4 then go home and wound their ow
% wives with their tongues. Clever t
20 all wives but their owa. And so
is with some wives. They are a
smiles and kind words in compan,
and cut their husbands to the heal
10 with their tongues. God pity tt
man who has such a wife as tina
- don't scold. If 1 do / intend
scold somebody else's wife. I hay
heard mothers say, when neigl
', boris child would break some artic
of value: Oh, it doesn't matter
when, if their own child were
do it, they'd slap him clean aero
>, the room. Lord, give us religit
that will make us good to our wiv
and children and friends and neig
bors."
lis The Ruling Passion Strong in Deaf
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