River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1886-10-21

tiful children. The good wife and
mother was called away from them,
aud they were left desolate indeed
! The blow was hard one. What now
was the bereaved husband to do? So
far as worldly goods Were concerned
he was amply provided. He had
abundance: but not all the wealth in
| the universe could have made up the
] loss they had sustained. Even his old
roystering companions confessed TO
each other that it was lawful rough,
YOU know; that in his case there
could be no doubt that Tom had
..struck it rich when he got the wife
who went TO church.
What would he do? A year later he
/ told a bosom friend that he must secure
a second mother for his children,
You will marry one that goes to
churchP'
more resolved on that than ever"
"But you don't 60 yOurself?n
mo. The fact is, it's too slow for
me. | like to enjoy myself with things
more lively; and when ! We got one at
| home who pulls steady IN the traces, as
these church gong women do, L can
feel safe and comfortable.
He found the woman he thought
would suit. A lady who had been
somewhat intimate with his wife, a
member of the same church, and alto
&c. her after the same right going pat
| tern. In fact "a steady, clear headed
woman, who knew when things were
right, and was prompt and decisive TO
4 have them so.
True, as Tom whispered to him
self, Il expect she'll try to pull me
short up into straight strings, n good
deal tighter than Emily did. She is
not as soft and yielding as I'd like
! But she'll be all right for the children.
/ | can trust her. When it comes to
question of what's best to be done.
/ there amt a bit of nonsense about her
/ So I'll take her.
To his great surprise, however. he
found that the second church going
woman was not prepared to accept
his offer with the pleased alacrity he
! had expected. Knowing that she was
in rather strditened circumstances, en-
/ tirely dependent on her own eXertions
| for livelihood, he had felt sure that
his own well-apponted home would
prove a temptation the lady would not
dream to refuse. But, instead of tue
gratefully expressed yes he had
looked for, she replied;
MAY | ask why you have given me
! the preference, Mr.. Winter?'
Because | want mother for those
children wLo go to church. | married
/ Emily on that account. and she man
aged 50 well | determined to choose
one of the same good sort
II commend the wisdom of your de-
cision. But you do not attend church
YOURSELF
20, it don't matter about me, you
know. So long as the mother is all
right to keep things straight at home
/ it don't make bit of difference wheth
! er a man goes TO church or not.
lin his own estimation, perhaps.
| But have you thought, Mr.. Winter, that
YOUR church going wife may be just
/ as anxious to have a husband whose
integrity or principles may be under
the saving influence of church attend
ance as you are in regard to the lady
/ of your choice? If YOU desire TO feel at
rest touching your wife conduct at
/ home is it not equally desirable that
! YOUR w llC > lllinh SuOAAh bC Ab lNoL
touching your honesty of conduct
when out of her sight?
! Here was new aspect, and st first
! he thought it was very foolish aspect
not TO say ridiculous. He could no
/ understand the idea of a man being
amenable to the same rules of moral
conduct that are required in
woman. And he said SO. But to all
/ his arguments and plsadings the lady
/ turned a deaf ear. She would not
marry man who would not 90 10
church; that much of safeguard to the
/ clean life of the man she would accept
must be given in return for her own
\ wholesome purity and unblemished
Christian principles.
At first Tom vowed to himself that he
would not tie himself down II nay such
unmanly giving way to woman :
1 foolish within. As he more and more
observed, however. that the lady was
/ possessed pre- cisely the excellent quail
ties he especially desired in q mother
for his children. he finally gave the re-
quisit pledge that he would accompany
his wife to church, at least once each
Sabbath-day.
Poor devil!" said his old cnums,
now he is shorn of his liberty, tied up
to the apron-strings of hard-faced
church-going fanatic. He'll be in a
lunatic asylum in less than SIX
months"
They were mistaken. Certainly. a
great change came over him. That
was apparent to the least obseryant.
He was no longer the registering. free
and easy Tom. The old card-playiBg,
dice throwing, time-wasting hauntS
lost his presence. No more WAS he
seen in the noisy, brawling, tipping
beer-gardens on Sunday. He row
sought rest and peaceful quiet
from the cares of the weeks business
within the blessed safeguards of his
own lirosidc And when, with wife
and children, he walked to church, no
more beautiful picture could anywhere
be seen. Aud, rs time sped on, and lie
found that the influence Of the church
going he had always seen TO be so
good for a woman was equally refining
and excellent in its effects on 4 man,
he blessed the impulse that led his
second wife to impel him into the path
of LIES truest enjoyment; and, albeit.
there were those of his old chums who
still wondered that ne could have been
lied by the nose by woman, > most
of them were free to confess that. after
all, he was more of man, better
man, in fact, than he had ever been
| before.
TO one who asked him how he ever
came to let himself be tied to a
woman's apron-strings, he said:
IF the chief bulk of married men
could be tied to the apron-strings of
wives who are anchored on founda-
ton of church-going, Christian prin-
ciples, we should have far greater
number of happy homes and vastly
more peace and happiness in the
world at large x ecelaHd Leader.
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