The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-01-22

Chrssian religion, not fully knowing VIVA
she b going TO hear; but she win never n
twice. A woman, noe . Christian, bat {
respector Of religion, said 10 me. 81 va.
| persuaded by my husband TO go and heal
~ infidel lecturer once, but going home,
said 10 him: my dear husband, I would
not 60 again, though my declinaturs
should result In our divorcement forever.''
And the woman was right. II after al
that Christ and Christianity have done fol
. woman she can 60 again and again Il
hear such assaults, she il an awful crea.
ture and you had better not come near suct
. reckless lepress. She needs to be washed
and for three weeks to be soaked in car.
bolic acid, and for whole year fumigated
before she is 1T for decent society, While
1t Is not demanded that q woman be 9
Christian before marriage, she must have
regard for the Christian religion or she is q
bad woman and unworthy of being your
companion in a life charged with such
stupendous solemuity and vicissitudes.
What you want, q man! in wife, is not
butterfly of the sunshine, not giggling
nonentity, not a painted doll, not gossip
ing gad-about, not a mixture of artiiciali-
tits which leave you in doubt as to where
the humbug ends and the woman begins,
but an earnest soul, one that can not only
laugh when you laugh, but weep when you
weep. There will be wide, deep graves in
your path Of life, and you will both want
steadying when yon come to the verge of
them. tell you! When your fortune fails
you willwant some one to talk of the treas
ures in heaven and not charge upon you
with bitter 81 told y on So" As far as l
can analy.e it sincerity and earnestness are
the foundation of all worthy wifehood. Get
that and you get all. Fail to get that and
you get nothing but what you will wish you
never had got.
Don't make the mistake that man of the
text made in letting his eye settle the ques-
ton in which coolest judgment directed by
divine wisdom are all important. He who
has no reason for his wifely choice except
a pretty face is like man who should buy
. farm because of the dahIias in the front
door-yard. Beauty is q talent, and when
God gives it he intends it as benediction
upon q woman's face. When the good Prin-
cess of Wales dismounted from
the rail train last summer, and
saw her radiant face, / could
understand what they told me the day be-
fore, that when at the great military hos
pital where are now the wounded and the
sick from the Egyptian and other wars the
Princess passed through, all the sick were
cheered at her coming, and those who
could be reused neither by doctor nor
nurse from their stupor, would get up on
their elbows to look at her, and wan and
wasted lips prayed an audible prayer:
"God bless the Princess tf Wales! Doesn't
she look beautifuli"
But how uncertain is the tarrying of
beauty in a human countenance. Explo-
sion of kerosene lamp turns it into scar
ification, and scoundrel with the dash of
vitriol may. dispel it, or time will drive his
chariot wheels across that bright face, cut
ting it up in deep ruts and gullies. But
there is an eternal beauty on the face Of
some women whom q rough and ungallant
world may critisise as homely, and though
their features may contradict ell the laws
Of Lavater on physiognomy, yet they have
graces Of soul that will keep them attract
i've for time and glorious through all etern-
ity.
There are two or three circumstances in
which the plainest wife is queen of beauty
to her husband, whatever her stature or
profile. BY financial panic or be-
trayel Of business partner, the man
goes down, and returning to his
home that evening he says: IL
am ruined; am in disgrace forever;
care not whether live or de-" It is an
agitated story he is telling in the house,
hold that winter night. He says: 1.-THE
furniture must go, the house must 60, the
social position must CO." and from being
sought for obsequiously they must be cold
shouldered everywhere. After he ceases
talkings and the wife has heard all in 81
lence, she says: as that all: Why, you
had nothing when married you, and you
have only come back to where you started.
II you think that my happiness and that
Of the children depend on these tTappings,
you do not know me, though we have lived
together thirty years. God Is not dead,
and the National Bank of Heaven has not
suspended payment, and if you don't mind
don't care q cent. What little we need
,f food and raiment the rest Of our lives
We can get, and 1 don't propose to sit down
and NOPE and groan. Mary, hand me that
1arning-needle. And, John, light one Of
The other gas-burners. And, Jimmy, open
The register for little more heat. Fanny,
fetch your fathers slippers. I declare!
have forgot to set the rising for those
,akesW And while she is busy at it he
hears her humming Newton's old hymn,
Tomorrow"
It can bring with It nothing
But He will bear us through;
Who gives the lilies clothing
Will clothe his people too:
Beneath the spreading heavenl
No creature but Is fed;
And He who feeds the ravens
Will give his children bread.
Though vine nor fig tree either
Their wonted fruit should bear,
Though all the fields should wither
Nor hocks nor herds be there;
Yet God the same abiding,
His praise shall tune my voice;
For while In Him confidiny
I can not but rejoice.
The husband looks up in amazement and
'ays: swell, well, you are the greatest
woman ever saw. I thought You would
'aint dead away when told you" And
IS he looks at her, all the glories Of physi-
,gnomy in the court of Louis XIV, or the |
modern fashion plates are tame as COM
Jared with the superhuman splendors Of |
hat woman's face. Joan OF Arc, Marie |
Antoinette and La Belle Hamilton, the en- |
.hantment Of the court Of Charles H., are |
Nowhere.
There is another time when the plainest |
She has done the work Of life. She has
cared her children for God and Heaven,
md though some of them may be a little |