The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-11-27
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HOME LIFE.

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Its Trials and Triumphs-suEEsStionS ts
Husband and wife.
Good HoG'sttPino
We have reached, Elnathan and I, q
point where we can pause and look about
US. Though not old, we have attained an
age where, already, when we visit the
beautiful Gods acre Of our native town,
the familiar names upon the headstones
increase year by year; and as We walk
about there We say to each other "Did you
know he was gomez" or ~ had forgotten
she had been called-so young, too" and
then, as we look again, we see that it was
not 80 young after all, but that it Is only
We who have forgotten how we are aging,
and how the companions Of our youth
have aged also, or already passed away.
Looking back, this autumn afternoon,
through all these housekeeping years, how
sottened, yet how radiant becomes the
picture with its mingled light and
shadow. There were the days when the
struggle TO do so much with so
little seemed useless 10 be kept up any
AOnAeLs 4ueLG heIC VIC hh1b WuGu blCk-
ness became familiar visitant, when the
grim shadow OF death hung over the
household, but happily always passed US
by. We have not grown rich; no mechanic
with a family to support does that, but
we have constituted happy household Of
loving hearts. Our story is only that OF
thousands OF other families, the heads OF
which fill our workshops and factories,
and make up the bone and sinew OF our
cities and villages, while the wives and
mothers toll just as hard to make the
homes bright and comfortable. There is
no reason why any young man and wo.
man, blessed with health and employ
ment, should not keep house comfortably
on the wages usually paid to mechanics.
"All the world loves lover" and old
married people, like Elnathana and !, have
still enough sentiment left in our hearts
to bless and welcome every young couple
starting home in our midst. But, my
dears, before commencing your venture,
be sure you love each other 80 devotedly
that no pressure OF poverty, no depriva-
ton or self-denial, made necessary by your
limited means, can ever make you grow
cold or fault.fndiDg toward each other,
Tor nothing but the utmost trust and con-
6dOnCs In each other will carry you
through. 1t will be veritable bearing OF
each others burdens. The Homework
will be hard, the going without thingsy you
need will be hard, the care OF children
will be exacting and wearing to
the last degree; but all these may
be borne, nay, more, may be met and
overcome for each others sake. But, oh
the woeful failures have seen, the cases
where the wife, young and undiseiplined,
chafed and fretted under the inevitable
burdens that she had assumed, voluntarily
II is true, but with no conception OF their
real gravity and magnitude, still wishing
for freedom and admiration OF her girl
hood days, feeling the care Of children an
intolerable burden; or the husband,
equally undissipiine4, entirely unfit to
maintain the honor and dignity essential
to the head OF household, seeing no rea-
son why he should curb the expenses or
habits he INDUCED in before marriage.
Then indifference has turned into rpcrimi,
nation, to be followed by separation, and
two lives have been marred and ruined
fortunate, indeed, il there are no little
ones to be Quarreled over, or lett to the
mercy OF relatives or strangers.
These things ought not 10 be. We, who
have borne the burden and heat OF the
day, who have built up homes and trained
up children, have a right to protest and
advise, Nay, we have more, we have
duty to do. We should so encourage
these young aspirants for matrimony and
housekeeping, We should 30 show them
by our being and doing the beauty Of true
living, that they VIII think there Is moth
ing else worth striving and toiling for.