Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-05

an Improvement you would be OF my pres
ent surroundings" And bouquets are
sent, and accidental meetings take place,
and late at night the mar comes to his pro-
sale home whistling and hilarious, and
wonders that the wife is jealous. There
are thousands of men who, while not posi-
lively immoral, need radical correction of
their habits in this direction. 1t is mean
ness unreasonable for q man by his be-
havior to seem to say to his wife: "You
can't help yourself, and 1 will go where 1
please, and admire whom I please, aud 1
defy your criticism"
Why did you not have that put in the
bond, Oh, domestic Shylock? Why did you
not have it understood before you were
pronounced husband and wife, that she
should have only a part of the dividend of
your affections, that when, as time rolled
on and the cares of life had erased some of
the bright lines from her face, and given
unwieldiness to her form, you would have
the reserved right to pay obeisance to
cheeks more rubicund and figure 1.-the and
more agile, and as you demanded the last
pound of patience and endurance on
her part, you could, with the
emphasis of an Edwin Forrest or a
Macready, have tapped the eccentric mar
riage document and have said:. "It's in
the bond!" If this modern Rebekah had
understood beforehand where she was
alighting, she would have ordered the
camel drivers to turn the caravan back
ward toward Padan-aram.
The most worthy thing for the thousands
of married men is to go home and apollo
gize for past neglects, and brighten up
their old love. Take up the family Bible
and read the record of the marriage day.
Open the drawer Of relics in the box
inside the drawer containing the trink-
cts of your dead child. Take up the
pack of yellow-covered letters that were
written before you became one. Rehearse
the scenes of joy and sorrow in which you
have mingled. Put all these things as fuel
on the altar, and by a coal of sacred fire
rekindle the extinguished light. 1t was a
blast from hell that blew it out, and a gale
from Heaven will fan it into a blaze.
Ye who have broken marriage vows,
speak out! take your wife into all your
plans, your successes, your defeats, your
ambitions. Tell her every thing. Walk
arm in arm with her into places of amuse-
ment, and on the piazza of summer water
ing places, and up the rugged way of life,
and down through dark ravine, and when
one trembles on the way, let the other be
reinforcement. In no case pass yourself
off as a single man practicing g%allantries.
Do not, after you are fifty years of age, in
ladies' society try to look young-manish.
Interfere not with your wife's religious
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in which so many Christian wives areplaced
by their husbands, who ask them to go to
places or do things which compel them to
decide between loyalty to God and loyalty
to the husband. Rather than ask her ia
compromise her Christian character. en-
courage her to be more and more a Chris.
tian, for there will be times in your life
when you will want the help of all hel
Christian resources, and certainly wher
you remember how much influence you
mother had over you, you do not want the
mother of your children to set a les,
gracious example. 1t pleases me greatly
to hear the unconverted and worldly hus
band say about his wife, with no idea tina
it will get to her ears: "There is the mos
godly woman alive. Her goodness is q per
pCUue1 u v my way 4NOCu
ing on earth could ever induce her to do
wrong thing. I hope the children will talk
after her instead of after me-. If there i
any Heaven at all, l am sure she will e
there"
Aye, my brother, do you not think i
would be a wise and safe thing for you t.
join her on the road to heaven
You think you nave a happy HON,
now, but what a home you woult
have if you both were religious! What
new sacredness it would give to your mar
ital relation, and what a new light it woull
throw on the forehead of your children. Il
sickness, what a comfort! In reverses O
fortune, what a wealth! In death, what
triumph! God meant you to be the higl
priest Of your household. Go home to-da,
and take the Bible. on your lap, and gathe
all your family yet living around you, an
those not living will hear of it in a flash
and as ministering spirits will hover
father and mother and children gone, an,
all your celestial kindred. Then knee
down, and if you can't think of a prayer t.
offer, 1 will give you a prayer, namely
"Lord God, I surrender to thee mysel
and my beloved wife, and these dear chill
dren. For Christ's sake forgive us all tn
past and help us for all the future. W
have lived together here; may we live to
gether forever. Amen and amenw Deal
me! what a stir it would make among YOU,
best friends on earth and in heaven!
Joseph H., the Emperor, was so kind
and SO philanthropic hat he excited til.
unbounded love of most of his subjects
He abolished serfdom, established tolera,
ton and lived in the happiness of his PEG,
pie. One day while on his way to Ostenc
to declare it a free port, and while at tn.
head of a great procession, he saw a WON
an at the door of her cottage in detection,
The Emperor dismounted and asked t.
cause of her grief. She said that her hui
band had gone to Ostend to see the En-
peror and had declined to AXE her VIII
him, for, as he was an alien, he could Mi
understand her loyal enthusiasm, and th,.t
it was the one great desire of her life 10
see the ruler for whose kindness and goo,i-
ness and greatness she had an unspeal1-
able admiration; and her disappointment
in not being able to 60 and see him was
simply unbearable. The Emperor Joseph
took from his pocket a box decorated with
diamonds surrounding a picture of himself
and presented it to her, and when
the picture revealed to whom sac