The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-10-22
HUSBANDS Musr NOT STAY AT HOME.

tionablo in short. This is the case very
often with authors, or parsots, or painters,
but it is particularly apt to bo SO with the
unemployed, such, for instance, as officers
and business men, who have retired or who
are out of harness for short time. The
spirit of mischief is never at a loss for.
job for pater familias, fit catches him
idiinS and louusiug about-neither at
work nor at play 1t stirs up his bile and
irritabiity, aud incites him to the reform
of domestic abuses. 1t kindlcs his SANTA
ry ardor. aud sends him poking aud. sniff
Ing outAiuconveniently into all the odd
corners of the establishment; or sets him
about the curtailment of house keeping ex-
penscs, or the amendment of various un-
mctholcal household proceedings, all of
which, however right and proper, tends to
disturb domestic. peace. and quictudc, and
to make the women Of the house devoutly
pray for the time when business shall call
the disturbcr Immediately after breakfast,
and keep him away till toward evening.
We have known clever men who were al
ways thinking of new theories and '.fads"
about the management of children and 9TH
er parts of family government. Such men
torment their wives and ipjurc the health
of their children when they allow these
theories to Interfere with common sense
and practical }expcrienoe. The following
yl,,k
tain family had the youngest members i'll
with measlcs! The time was winter, and,
amongst his other prescriptions for their
benefit, the docto. ordered that the room in
which the patients were should be kept free
from draughts of cold air. Everything
went on comfortably, and all were couva-
lescens but the two youngest, ono about
three years of age aud the other fifteen
months. TO them their father came one
day III January; the temperature was
higher than usual, he wore great coat and
had walked fast about mile up hill at
neon under winter sun. He was warm
and when he entered the sick chamber he
found it sitting. Being bustling sort of
man and very opiniouatcd he ordered the
children and their nurses to leave the
''stifling chamber, where none bnt salaman-
ders could live, and 90 into another room
where the air was pure, aud sweet, and
COOL" demonstrates were vain, and the
poor patients were packed off to an unaired
bedroom. Within one hour the youngest
child wa affected with Group. and in few
more the second became equally i'll. Both
died within three days, victims to pedantry
and obstinacy. But the pedantry and OBJ
stinacy would probably never have had such
fatal results if the father had not boon
idling at home.
A man can never pull with his wife un-
til he learns not TO interfere with what
does not concern him. He who can trust
his wife should no more meddle with her
home concerns than she should pestor him
with questions about his business There
viii be no peace if he poke over the weekly
bills, insist upon knowing how much
each thing is per pound, and what ho is
going to have every day for dinner. 1t is,
indeed, almost sine qua non of domestic
felicity that pater familas should be absent
from home at least six hours in the day
Jones asked his wife: "Why is a husband
like dough?' He expected she would give
it up and he was going to tell her that it
was because woman needs him; but she
said it was because he was hard to get off
her hands.
OF course like every other good rule,
this one of Intervention may be car
ried too far, as it was by the studious man
who said when servant told him that his
house was on fire: "Go to your mistress,
you know have no charge of household
matters" No doubt occasions will arise
when husband will be only too glad to
take counsel with his wife in business cares;
while she may have to remember all her
life long, with gratitude and love, some
season Of sickness and affliction when he
filled his own place and hers too, ashamed
Of no womanish task, and neither irritated
or humiliated by ever such trivial house
hold cares.
A lady very much given to gadding was
suddenly taken i'll at home one day and
sent her husband in great haste for the doc
tor. The obedient man ran part of the
way, then returned to put this important
query: ''Ny dear, where shall l find you
when l get back?" We have no sympa
thy with women like this, who are never "at