Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-16

linen Sn6 b6SdH systematic course OF
starvation. She was determined to die;
determined to join Harry at Christmas,
she said. We argued, coaxed bribed,
wheedled, all in vain, but finally espite
herself, we brought her out of danger and
into convalescence. A curious thing
about the matter is that she never referred
to the shooting; never mentioned it in
any way; never looked conscious of any
knowledge of the cause of her illness. We
never alluded to it in her presence, and
when I spoke of the ball and my desire to
extract it, it might have been a natural
excrescence, so far as any allusiOn to the
mode of its getting in her back was con-
cerned.
Curious thing now, wasn't it?" muses.
! the doctor. Then he raises in his stirrups
and waves his hat I follow his glance
| and see Mr.. Doctor smiling a welcome in
the distance. 'Do look at that boy of
NINE" he adds in a tone of amusement
nothing will keep him from standing on
his head. [ shall certainly have to set his
neck some day."
Then as we rode into the merry hubbub
of EXPLANATIONS, laughs and jokes from
the dismounting party, he says, in an I'M
dertone:
"By the way, did you notice that good
looking young fellow with the brown mus
! tache? He is Welhelmina's present hus-
band; they have been married a year.
gasp, as he lifts me from my horse,
and with twinkle in his grey eyes, he
mUtters:
Curious thing now, wasn't it?''
The Model Husband.
A clever French woman, writing to the
husband of a friend, piquantly puts the
question thus:
'You, sir, have supposed yourself a
model husband, and In many respects you
were one. Nevertheless, you have one
point in common with the great mass of
your brethren, namely, to form very pre-
else idea of the duties which marriage i'm
poses on your wife and a very vague idea
of those which it imposes on Yourself
Marriage is not mOnologue, but dia-
logue. You have studied only one part, and
thatnot your own part. Y GU are too sincere,
sir, not to admit that your conception of
marriage was simply this: To add to the
customary satisfactions of your life an
agreeable accessory in the person of a
worthy and graceful women who would
adOrn your house, would perpetuate your
name, and would bring you, in short, with
| out much trouble, an increase of comfort
and responsibility. You, like all your sex,
would like to find in Paris or in the prov
inces or abroad that marvellous woman
who would make all the sacrifices and re-
quire none of you. You have not found
her, and no one will find her, for this rare
bird that you all dream of-the family
woman-implies a bird rarer yet-the
family man. What do [ mean by family
man? 1t is not man who works tapes
try sitting at the feet of his wife, who ar
ranged the bill of fare, writes the invita-
tions, places the lamps and winds up the
clocks. We call a family man him with
whom we read the same book. see the
same painting or landscape; him who
makes for Us an intellectual life besides
his own, or rather within his own: him
who associates US, if not with all his occu-
pations, at least with all his leisure. and
who consequently cherishes no taste, no
| pleasure, no interest of heart or mind
which he is not willing or able to share
with US; the man, in short, who, when he
marries, frankly devotes all he has to the
interests of the family with out any selfish
reserve. Be such man, and you will at
tach your wife to the home by attaching
| yourself to it. Your home will be not
only In your house; you will carry it with
| you like a domestic altar. It will be
wherever you shall be with her; it will be
in your heart and in yours wherever you
mlngle in affectionate intimacy your
| thoughts, your impressions, your enthusi-
asms, your beliefs, your charities.
"Certainly, sir, marriage is an enter
| prise which promises inestim:b BILE benefits:
but there is a bill of expenses. Have you
read it? [ fear not, since if you would
have seen then that large part of the
education of the wife should come from
her husband; that it is for him to model
to his wish, to shape according to his pref
erence, to raise to the dignity of his
sentiment and thoughts, this young heart
and mind which seek only to please him;
! you would have seen there that it is both
prudent and agreeable to add to the bonds
which unite wife to her husband those
which unite pupil to his teacher, his
| guide, his friend.
II hear the objection you make. This
young heart, this youthful mind, will not
consent to your arrangements. They
will oppose to you their futile education,
their love of dissipation, of coquetry; in
short, the incurable frivolity of women.
l do not believe in the incurable frivolity
of women, neither do you, for you often
see, as do, their frivolity transforming
| itself under the influence of affection, of
pity, of faith, of misfortune, into austere
devotedness and firm self-abnegation.
Why may tnOt yield to the sweet authori-
ty of first love, so powerful over the heart
of women that it reappears through every
thing as she lives Through outrage,
resentment, vengeance, remorse.
mo! ayOw it, you have hoped that this
child whom you married would become at
once an accomplished woman merely
though the influence of the sacrament of
marriage. Well, sir, this miracle was one
which you yourself should have undertak-
en- to perform. Consider whether you can
not yet accomplish it."
City of Wind.
| eIchant Traveller.
travelling man had been conversing