The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-04-02
,;,. and mechanical life and agri'


Again, charge you, never tax W o.n
..ant tha frailties of your husband. Some
people have q way, in banter OF eiaDo-
ratelv describing to others the snortcom-
inps or unhappy eccentricltles Oh . nus
hand or wife. All, the world VIII nno ou'
soou enough all the defects OF your COM
nanion. No need of your advertising tnei'
petter initiate those women who, having
made mistakes in alliance, always nave
,o;I En- hide imperfections and alleviatlons
80 conduct to mention. We must ADMIT
.h., there are rare cases where wife can
not live longer with her husband, and MS
cruelties and outrages are tine precursor y,
enforcement or separation. But until tnaS
dav comes keep the awful secret TO your
.eIf. Keep it from every being in the uni
verse. except the God to whom you do Wen
to tell your trouble. Trouble only few
wars at most, and then you can go up on
the other side of the grave and say: ~,
Lord kept the martial secret. Thou
knowest how well kept it, and thank
thee that the release has come at iaS''
Give me some place where can SIT Gown
and rest awhile from the horrors OF an
embruted earthly alliance, before L oegin
the full raptures of Heaven" And orders
will be sent out to the usher angels, say.
ing: "Take this Abigail right up to the
softes. seat in 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 floods of newspapers and
books, there is no excuse for the wife's ig-
norance either about the present or the
mast. II YOU have no more than q half
hour every day to yourself you may I'LL
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. It is very stupid for man,
after having been amid active minds all
| day, to find his wife without informa-
ton 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 60 and see a man. In nine cases
out of ten, when o 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 II she
| could tax as well.
Icharge you, my sister, in every way to
make your home attractive. have not
enough of practical knowledge about
house adornment to know just what
makes the difference; but here is 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 chill
| like Nova Zembla. Another home, with
one twentieth part Of the outlay, and
small supply of art, and cheapest piano
purchasable, and yet, as you enter it.,
there comes upon body, mind and soul, .
glow of welcome and satisfied and happy
domesticity. The holy art Of making the
most comfort and brightness ont Of the
means afforded every wife should study.
At the siege Of Argos, Pyrrhus was
killed by the tile of . roof thrown by .
woman, and Abimelech was slain by Q
| stone that q woman threw from the tower
of Thebex, and Earl Montfort was de-
stroyed by . rock discharged at him by .
woman from the walls of Toulouse. But
without any weapon save that of her own
cold, cherries household arrange ment,
any wife may slay all the attractions Of .
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 rs 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: s'Father, you ought
to have been home last night. We had &
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-.
tertainments; and the result was that the
wife and mother saved her husband and
saved her boy and saved herself. Wa.
not that an enterprise worth the attention
of the greatest woman that ever lived since
Abigail at the foot of the rock arrested
the four hundred armed " arriorsl
Do not. my sister, b dissied and dis
turbed by the talk Of those who think the
home circle too Insignificant for . WON.
ans career, and who want to get you out on
platforms and in conspicuous enterprises
There are women who have . special out.
side mission, and do not dare to interp-c.
me As derisive Of their important mis-
sion. But my opinion il that the
woman who can reinforce her hus.
band in the work of life and rear her chill
dren for positions Of usefulness, il doins
moro for God and the race and her owl
happiness than II she spoke ON every erea
platform and headed . hundred grsst en-
serprises. Ny mother never made . mis-
sionary speech in her life, and at Q mis-
sionary meeting doubt whether she could
have got enough courage to voice aye O
NO, but she raised her SON John, who In,
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