The Brookhaven leader., 1886-01-28

Christian religion, not fully knowing what
she is going to hear; but she win never go
twice. A woman, not Christian, but
| respector of religion, said to me. 81 was
persuaded by my husband to go and hear
an inidel lecturer once, hut goin. home,
said to him: "Mv dear husband, would
not go again, though my declnature
should result in our enforcement forever"
| And the woman was right. Ii after all
that Christ and Christianity have done for
| n woman she can go again and again 10
| hear such assaults, she is an awful crea-
! ture and YOU had better not come near such
| a reckless lepress. She needs To tie washed
| and for three weeks to he soaked in car
| bolic acid, and for whole year misated.
/ before she is tit for decent society. While
it is not demanded that a woman he
( Christian before marriage, she must have
/ regard for the Christian religion or she is a
/ bad woman and unworthy OF being your
/ companion in Il lie charged with such
! stupcndouS solamnitv and viessitudes.
/ What YOU want, y miu, in a wife, is not
| a butterfly of the sunshine, not giggling
nonentity, not u painted doll not a gossip
| ing gad about, not mixture Of artifciali-
tits which leave you in doubt as To where
the humbug ends and the woman begins,
but an earnest soul, one that can not only
laugh when you laugh, but weep when you
weep There will be wide, deep graves in
your path of life and you will both want
steadving when you come to the verge OF
them, tell you! When your fortune fails
you will want some one to talk of the treas
ures in heaven and not charge upon you
with a bitter II told OIL So" As far as
l "a
| the foundation OF all worthy wifehood. Get
| that and you get all Fail to get that and
| you get nothing but what you will wish you
never had got. =
Don't make the mistake that man of the
! text made in letting his eye settle the ques-
ton in which coolest judgment dire cted by
| divine wisdom are all important He who
! has no reason for his wifely choice except
a pretty face is like a man who should buy
a farm because OF the dahlias in the front
| door yard. Beauty is a talent, and when
! God gives it he intends it as a benedictiOu
upon a woman's face When the good Prin
| cess of Wales dismounted from
the rail train last summer, and
! saw her radiant face, | could
understand what they told me the day be
| fore, that when at the great military hos
| pital where are now the wounded and the
sick from the Egyptian and other wars the
| Princess passed through, all the sick were
cheercd at her coming, and those who
| could be reused neither by doctor nor
| nurse from their Stupor, would get up on
| their elbows to lool: ut her, and wan anu
wasted lips prayed an audible prayer.
| "God bless the Princess of Wales Doesn't
she look beautiful"
But how uncertain is the tarrying of
! beauty in q human countenance. Explo-
sion of a kerosene lamp turns it into scar
| i4ication, and II seoundrel with the dash OF
vitrol may dspel il, or time will drive hi,
chariot wheels across that bright face, cut
ting it up i'll deep ruts and gulles. Blu
there is an eternal beauty on the face o
some women whonI a rough and unEalIan,
world may criticise as homely, and thougl
their features may contradict all the law
of Lavater on physioInomy, yet they have
graces OF soul that will keep them attract
i've for time and glorious through all etern.
ity.
There are two or three circumstances in
which the plainest wife Is queen of beauty
to her husband, whatever her stature or
profile. BY financial panic or be-
trayel of business partner, the man
goes down, and returning to his
home that evening he says: ~
am ruined: | am in disgrace forever; |
care not whether live or die" II is an
agitated story he is telling in the house
hold that winter night. He lays: "The
furniture must 60 the house must go, the
social position must co. and from being
sought for obsequiOusy they must he cold
shouldered every where. After he ceases
talking, and the wife has heard all in 81
lencc, she says: a. that all? Why, you
had nothing when married you, and you
have only come back to wher" you started.
If you think that my happin ass and that
of the children depend on these tFappings,
you do not know me, thougu we have lived
together thirty years. God is not dead,
and the National Bank of Heaven has not
suspended payment, and if you don't mind
of food and raiment the rest OF our lives
we can get, and don't propose to sit down
and NOPE and groan. Mary, hand me that
darning needle. And, john light one Of
the other gas burners. And, Jimmy, open
the register for little more heat Fanny,
fetch your fathers slippers | declare
have forgot to set the rising for those
cakes" And while she is busy at it hf
hears her humming Newton's old hymn
'"To- morrow"
1t can bring with it nothing,
But He will bear ia through: