Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-22

brightness out OF the means aHOTueu
every wife should study.
At the siege Of Argos Pyrrhus was
killed by the tile Of roof thrown by a
woman, and Abimclech was slain by
stone that woman threw from the tower
OF Thebez, and Earl Montfort was de-
stroyed by a rock discharged at him by q
woman from the walls of Toulouse. But
without any weapon save that OF her
cold, cherries household arrangement,
any wife may slay all the attractions OF
home circle. wife and mother in pros
pered circumstances, and greatly adj
mired, was giving her chief time 10 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 children 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. Interesting and stirring games
were introduced into the house. The
mother studied up interesting things TO
tell her children. One morning the son
said: "Father, you ought TO have been
| home last night. We had grand time.
Such Jolly games and such interesting
storles.n This went on from night TO
night, and after while the husband
stayed in 60 see what was going on, and
he finally got attracted and added some
thing of his own TO the evening entertain
ments, and the result was that the wife
and mother saved her husband and
saved her boy and saved herself Was
not that an enterprise worth the attention
of the greatest woman that ever lived
since Abigail, at the foot of the rock, ar
rested the four hundred armed warriors?
Do not, my sister, be dizzled and dis
turbed by the talk OF those who think the
home circle too insignificant for a wo-
mans career, and who want to get you
out on platforms and in conspicuous en-
terprises. There are women who have a
| special outside mission, and do not dare
to interpret me as derisiye Of their i'm
| portant mission. But my opinion is that
the woman who can reinforce her husband
in the work Of life and rear her children
for positions of usefulness, Is doing more
for God and the race and her own happi-
ness than II she spoke on every great
platform and headed hundred great en-
terprises. My mother never made mis-
sionary speech In her life, and at mis-
| sionary meeting | doubt whether she
could have got enough courage to vote
aye or no, but she raised her son John,
who has been preaching the gospel and
translating religious literature in Annoy,
China, for about forty years. Was not that
better thing to do?
Compare such an one with one of these
die-away, attitudinizing, frivolous, mar
ried coquettes of the modern drawing
room, her heaven an Opera-box on the
night of Meyerbeer's "Robert lie Diable,"
the ten commandments an inconven-
| fence, taking arsenic to improve the
complexion, and her appearance a con-
| fused result of belladonna, bleached hair,
anthony and mineral acids, until one Is
compelled TO discuss her character and
wonder whether the line between n de-
cent and indecent life is, like the equator,
an imaginary line.
! What the world wants now Is about
! fifty old-fashioned mothers, women who
shall realize that the highest, grandest,
mightiest institution on earth IL the
home. 1t is not necessary that they
| should have the same old-time manners
OF the country farmhouse, or wear the
old-fashioned cap and spectacles and
apron that her gloriied ancestry wore;
but mean that the old spirit which be-
gan with the Hannahs and the Mother
Lois and the Abigails OF Scripture days,
and was demonstrated on the homestead
where some of us were reared, though
the old house was long ago pulled down
and its occupants scattered never to meet
until in the higher home that awaits the
families Of the righteous. While there
are more good and faithful wives and
mothers now than there ever were, so
ciety has got wrong twist on this sub
| ject, and there are influences abroad that
would make women believe that their
chief sphere is outside instead of inside
the home.
Hence IN many households children,
instead OF blessing, are Il nuisance. IL
Is card-case versus child's primer, car
riage versus cradle, social popularity
versus domestic felicity, Hence infanti-
eide and ante-natal murder so common
that all the physicians, allopathio, hydro
pathic, homeopathic and eclectic, are cry
ing out in horror, and 1t is time that the
pulpits joined with the medical profess
sion IN echoing and re-echoing the thunder
of Mount Sinai, which says: ''Thou
shalt not KILL" and the Book OF Revea-
tons, which says; can murderers shall
have their place in the lake which burneth
with fire and brimstone.r And the man
or the woman who takes life minute
old will as certainly 20 straight to hell as
the man or woman who destroys life forty
years old. And the widest, loudest
Shrek of Judgment day viii be given at
the overthrow OF those who moved IN the
high and respected circles of earthly So
ciety, yet decreed by their own act
rs far as they could privately effect
II, the determination Of the advanc-
ing generations, abetted In the horrid
crime by lot of Internal quacks with
which modern medicine Is infected.
When, on the last day, the criers of the
court shall with resoundlng "Oyez, y
"Oyezl" declare the foyer and termineri,
OF the universe opened, and the Judge
with gavel OF thunderbolt shall smite the
nations into silence, and the trial of all
the fratrlcldes, and PARTICLES, and mat
ricides, and patricides, and uxoricides,
and regicides, and decides, and infanti-
cides OF the earth shall proceed, none of
my hearers or readers cal say that they
knew not what they were doing. Mighty
Godl Arrest the evil that is overshad-
ewing this century.
charge you, my sister, that you take
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