Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-12-03

retention of the family physician. By
its neglect children die or 90 to the bad,
husbands become dissipated, fortunes are
wrecked. The woman who can bring
neatness and order to her home. be it
cabin or palace, has magician's wand of
enchantment. Without it grace, beauty,
accomplishment will fail in large degree.
1t not merely touches the parlor, but the
cellar; not alone the bay window. but the
sink. 1t is heavens first law, and every
happy homes. You see it exemplified in
the meanest abodes, you see it violated in
stately homes. 1t is more necessary to
know how to clean spider than to trans
late German sentence, to get up din
ner out of fragments than to interpret the
last opera.
SYMPATHETIC APPRECIATION OF HER
HUSBANDS LIFE.
There is much left unsaid between the
lines we do not exhaust these points;
we wish to suggest. Washington GLADDEN.,
in some words on the household and the
home, wisely says. Friendship, as well as
love. friendship, even more than love, is
the indispensable condition of true mar
rage" believe the secret of many I'M
happy marriages is found here. The
parties are every way worthy, but there is
no friendship between them. Scott, the
great wizard of the North, was touched
by the poetry of the skipping lambs on
the green downs, but his wife had sug-
gested to her only the thought that lamb
with mint sauce is very good. Now poe
try is good, and lamb is delicious, each in
their proper place. The latter will nour-
ish the former. but they are on differ
ent plane. Many a man has hungered for
sympathy-the friendship of his wife.
Love will not supply its place. 1t may
conceal its absence in the honeymoon,
but for long stretch of everyday life it
will not suffice. Many man owes his
fortune or his name to the sympathetic
assistance of his wife. and many one has
failed because he could not have it.
A SOLEMN CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE DEvINE
OBJECT OF MARRIAGE-THE REARING
OF CHILDREN.
We may be uneasy under the phrasing
of the thought when we are entirely care
less to the fact that God clearly uttered
Himself at first when He established the
family. The Eastern woman finds her
crown in these jewels of welded life.
Without them she is cursed, the taunt and
by-word OF her sisters. How tar have we
departed from this holy heritage. let pitt
less statistics answer; behind them are
tears and agony; wise but frank utterance
alone will save the coming man and the
coming woman from utter sbipwreck
The increase OF vice, the love OF display,
the aversion to some of the responsible
ties of life. all are questions which touch
this fact-the Divine purpose in the found
ing of marriage.
We are responsible to the coming gen.
Grafton. Can the artist ignore the clay in
his hands? As he puts the chisel to mar
BILE he may well utter PRAYER. He is to
fashion an angel or demon by the magic
of his genius. and he alone is to decide
The women fit for wives cannot be obi.
vious to the solemn birthright of their
lives. the heritage of woman. 1t should
not bring blush to the cheek of virginia.
purity that she remembers this. it is her
chame if she does not.--"A Country Per-
son" in Good Housekeeping.