St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-03-06

| is not over working SO much TOR hlmsel1 as
he is over-working for you and the chill
dren. 1t is the effect of his success or de-
feat on the homestead that causes hlra the
agitation. The most of men after forty
| five years of age live not for themselves
but for their families. They begin to ask
themselves anxiously the question: "How
| if should give out: what would become of
the folks at home? Would my wife have
to 90 out into the world to earn bread for
herself and our little ones? Ny eyesighs
troubles me; how if my eyes should fail:
| NV head gets dizzy; how it | should drop
under apoplexy:" The high pressure OF
business life and mechanical life and agri-
cultural life is home pressure.
Again, charge you, never talk to others
about the fralties of your husband. Some
people have way, in banter, OF eiaoo-
rately describing to others the shortcom-
ings or unhappy eccentriclties OF nus
band or wife. All, the world will find out
soon enough all the defects OF your COM
panion. No need Of your advertising them.
Better initiate those women who, having
| made mistakes in Alliance, always have a
veil to hide imperfections and alterations
of conduct to mention. We must admit
| that there are rare cases where wife can
| not live longer with her husband, and his
crueltes and outrages are the precursor of
enforcement or separation. But until that
day comes keep the awful secret to your
| self. Keep it from every being in the uni
verse, except the God to whom you do well
I to tell your trouble. Trouble only few
| years at most, and then you can go up on
the other side OF the grave and. say: so,
| Lord, I kept the marital secret. Thou
knowest how well I kept it, and l thank
| thee that the release has come at last.
| Give me some place where [ can sit down
and rest awhile from the horrors Of an
embruted earthly alliance. before | begin
the full rapture, Of Heaven" And orders
will be sent out to the usher angels. say
ing: ''Take this Abigail right up to the
softest seat i'll the best room of the palace.
and let twenty of the brightest angels wait
! on her for the next thousand years"
[ charge you, also, make yourself the in
telligent companion Of your husband.
What with these foods OF newspaper and
! books. there is no excuse for the wife's ig-
norance either about the present or the
| past. If you have no more than a half
hour every day to yourself you may fill
your mind with entertaining and useful
| knowledge. Let the merchants wife
read up on all mercantile questions, and
! the mechanics wife on all that pertains
to his style of work, and the professional
| mans wife on all the legal or medical or
| theological or political discussions of the
day. 1t is very stupid for a man,
| after having been amid active minds all
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| tion or opinions on anything. II the
wife knows nothing about what is going
on in the world, after the tea hour has
passed, and the husband has read his
! newspaper, he will have an engagement,
and must go and see a man. In nine cases
out of ten, when a man does not stay at
home in the evening, unless positive duty
calls him away, it is because there is
nothing to stay for. He would rather
talk with his wife than any one else if she
could tax as we'll.
l charge you, my sister, i'll every way to
make your home attractive. I have not
enough of practical knowledge about
house adornment to know just what
makes the difference: but here rs an
opulent house, containing all wealth
of bric-a -brac, and of musical in
strument, and OF painting, and of
upholstery, and yet there is in it ch ill
like Nova Zembla. Another home, with
one-twentieth part of the outlay, and
small supply OF art, and Gu eapest piano
purchasabls, and yet. as you enter it,
there comes upon body, mind and soul,
glow of welcome and satisfied and happy
domestlcity. The holy art of making the
most comfort and brightness out OF the
means afforded every wife should study.
At the siege of Argos, Pyrrhus was
killed by the tile of a roof thrown by
woman, and Abimelsch was slain by a
stone that woman threw from the tower
of Thehez, and Earl Montfort was de-
stroyed by rock discharged at him by a
woman from the walls of Toulouse. But
without any weapon save that Of her own
cold, cherries household arrange ment,
any wife may STAY all the attractions of a
home circle. A wife and mother in pros
pered circumstances and greatly admired
was giving her chief time to social life
The husband spent his evenings away. The
son, fifteen years OF age, got the same habit,
and there was prospect that the other chill
dren as they got old enough would take the
same turn. One day the wife aroused
to the consideration that she had better
save her husband and her boy. Interest
ing and stirring games were introduced
into the house. The mother studied up in.
teresting things to tell her children. One
morning the son said: "Father, you ought
to have been home last night. We had a
grand time. Such jolly games and such
interesting stories. This went on from
night to night, and after awhile the hus-
band staid in to see what was going on,
and he finally got attracted and added |
something of his own TO the evening en-