Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-02-01

uOlu OF the work OF life with both hands.
-Four hands to fight the battles: four eyes
to watch for the danger: four shoulders
on which TO carry the trials. 10 is a very
sad thing when thepainter has wife who
does not ike pictures. 1t is very sad
thing for pianist when she has a hus-
band who does not like music. IL is a
very sad thing when a wife is not
suited unless her husband has
what is called "genteel bus
mess" So far as l understand
"genteel business,' II IL something to
which man goes at 10 O'clock in the
morning, and from which he comes home
at , or 3 O'clock in the afternoon, and gets
large amount OF money for doing no
thing. That is, L believe, a ''genteel busi-
ness" and there has been many wife
who mas made the mistake OF not being
satisfied until the husband has given up
the tanning of the hides, or the turning Of
the banisters, or the buildi2gOt the walls,
and put himself In circles where he has
| nothing to do but smoke cigars and drink
Wine, and get himself into habits that
\ pset him, gong down IN the
| aelstrom, taking his wife and
CAildren with him. There are good
many trains running from earth to de-
struction. They start all hours of the day,
and all the hours OF the night. There are
the freight trains; they 40 very slowly
! commodation trains going on toward de-
struction, and they stop very often, aud
let man get out when he wants 70. But
genteel idleness is an express tram; Satan
is the stOker, and Death is the engineer;
and though one may come out in front OF
II and swing the red fag Of danger" or
the lantern Of Gods word, it makes just
one shot into perdition, coming down the
emDankment with shout and a wall and
gnripE-prngh pFaabf fTnorta ara fvO
classes OF people sure of destruction;
hrst, those who have nothing to do; sec
ondly, those who have something TO do,
but are too lazy or too proud 20 do it.
have one more word OF advice to give
those who would have happy home, and
that Is, let love preside IN 1t. When your
behavior in the domestic circle becomes
a mere matter of calculation, when the
caress you give Is merely the result de-
liberate study OF the position you occupy,
happiness lies stark dead on the hearth
stone. When the husbands position as
head OF the household IL maintained by
loudness of voice, by strength of arm, by
nre OF temper, the republic Of domestic
bliss has become a deSp0tiem that neither
God nor man will abide. On, ye who
promised TO love each otner at the altar,
how dare you commit perjury Let no
shadow Of suspicion come on your afec-
ton. 1t is eaeier to Kill That fiOwer than
1t ls to make 1t live again. The blastfrom
hell that puts out that light, leaves you IN
the blaekness of darkness forever.
Here are a man and wife; they agree
In nothing else, but they agree that they
VIII have a home. They Will have a
splendid house, and they think that if
they have house they will have n home.
Architects make the plan, aud the me-
chanics execute it; the house to cost one
hundred thousand dollars. IL is done.
The carpets are spread; lights are hoist
ed; curtains are hung; cards Of invita-
ton sent out. The hOrses in gold-plated
harness prance at the gate; guests come
in and take their places; the flute sounds;
the dancers go up and down; and with
one grand whirl the wealth and the fash
ION and the mirth of the great town
wheel amidst the pictured walls. Hal
this is happiness. Float it on the smoking
Viands; sound IL in the music; Whirl il
in the dance; cast il on the snow of
sculpture; sound it up the brilliant stair
way; fash it in chandeliersl Happiness,
indeedl Let us build on the centre of the
parlor door a throne to Happiness; let all
the guests, when come in, bring their
flowers and pearls and diamonds, and
throw them on this pyramid, and let 1t be
throne; and then let Happiness, the
queen, mount the throne, and we will
stand around, and, all chalices lifted, we
will say, ''Drink, o queen live fOreverp'
But the guests depart, the flutes are
breathess, the last clash Of the inn
patient hoOfs is heard In the dis
tance, and the twain OF tho house,
hold come back to see the Queen
of happiness on the throne amidst the par
lor floor. But, alas as they come back,
the flowers have faded, the sweet odOrs
have become the smell of a charnel-house,
and instead OF the queen Of happiness
there sits there the gaunt form Of ofanguish,
with bitten lip and sunken eye, aud ashes
in her hair. The r0mp Of the dancers who
have left seems rumbling yet, Ike jaTring
thunders that quake the floor aod rattle
the glasses OF the feaet, rim to rim. The
spilled wine on the floor turns
into blood. The wreaths OF plush have be-
come wriggling reptiles. Tarrors catch
tangled in the canopy that oVerhangs the
couch. A strong gust of wind comes
through the hall and the drawing room
and the bed chamber, in which all the
lights 20 out. And from the lips Of the
wine breakers come the words, "Happi-
ness is not in us!D And the arches re-
sp0nded, "ItIs not in usp And the ST.
lenced instruments Of music, thrummed
on by invisible gringers, answer "Happi-
ness is not in usi" And the frozen lips Of
anguish break open. and, seated on the
throne Of wilted flowers, she strikes her
honey nanus tOgeluer, ana 8fOdnS, III 10
not IN mev
That very night a clerk with a salary OF
q thousand dollars ycar--only one thou
sand-gOes 20 bis home, set up three
months ago, Just after the marriage-day.
Love meets him 40 The door; love sits with
him at the table; love talks over the work
OF the day; love takes down the Bible and
reads OF Him VINO came our souls 20 save;
ana they knoel, aud while they are kneel-
ing--rightin that plain room, ON that plain
carpet--the angels Of God build a throne,
not out OF flowers that perish and fade
away, but out OF gari8nd5 OF heaven,
wreath on top of wreath, amaranth on
amaranth, until tho throne Ia done. Then
the barps OF God sounded, aud suddenly
there appeared one who mounted the
throne, with an eye 8Q bright and brow
so fair that the twain knew 10 was Chris
tlan Love. Aud they knelJ at the throne,
and, putting one hand on each head, she
blessed them, and said, Happiness il
with mel" Aud that throne OF celestial
bloom withercd not with the passing
years; and the queen lett not the throne
TIL one day The married pair felt stricken
In years felt themselves called away,
and knew not which way 20 10, and the
queen bounded from the throne, and said,
"FOllOw me, and lwill show you the way
up 10 the realm Of everlasting love-" And
so they went up to sing songs OF love, and
walk on payements OF love, and 10 live
together In mansions Of love, aud 10 re-