The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1886-10-09
NIPPER's NOTES.
"A Plea For Woman.

Il
Speaking Of the hard lot Of some
wives. Rev. T. K. Noble says: 81 60
out TO Gods acre, and I read upon the
tomb stones Of the wives who sleep
uuietly beneath the daisies, with their |
hands folded upon their breasts, Of
their virtues, and think that some OF
the Inscriptions sh ouId read, "Died OF
Oyerwork., II life is battle to man,
II IL more to. woman. Woman does
not draw her inspiration from the
same source as man. Three things she
needs and must have: /. Your society
and compsnionship; 2. Your confidence;
and 8. Your love. She doesn't want 70
wait till she is dead to read her virtues
ON her tomb stone. She wants her
husband to tell her how much he loves
her. There are couples, happy In the
eyes Of society, who In the home are
nothing to each other.
I marvel somewhat how man can
write 90 understandingly Of the sphynx,
woman. Overwork Of itself however
will never KILT is the attendant
worry aud desolation OF spirit that 60
| hand IN hand with most overworked
wives. When woman's heart Is light,
| her duties are q pleasure. It is the
half-hearted woman who Is over"
worked the sense Of Its being all for
naught, clogs feet and hands, ana
makes the effort constant strain. A
word Of praise and affection from hei
husband will make whole days duties
. pleasure. But when that never comes
when complaint and Indifference are
her reward, It It no wonder that she
laints by the wayside and her un'
lcherished days wing heavily and slow
When we stop to think how brief II
our span Of life. is 1t hardly worth tn
while to struggle aud curse at every
'lstone in the road-t0 wrangle ane
nope, aud, in our own self-made mis-
|ery, drag others down with us'
Those men who find home bore ant
their wives unlnteresting and tiresome
let them try-it Is worth the ef'ort-fo
is not home where the heart shoul'
be Pa kind word now and then, ever
! \ email show Of the old affection an
solicf1ude started out with, when tn
road was fresh and .sunshiny, and sc
II the worried and over. worked wife
, be she even little shrewish-will NJ
: soften and grow almost young agai
There Is no woman of too acid ten
j. per whom affection will not sweeteI
/. After marriage the ,tlti'na thule OF h
!; ambition is to have happy home
. and can you hope to have ligl
!. hearted aud loveable wife when "
q either 60 home to her-who has coun
ed the moments till your coming
an Indifferent or sulky mood-or els
y which Is worse, spend your evenin
elsewhere?
No hearth stone is so desolate as IN
u by which the wife sits alone and ne
~ lected, with all her sweetest expect
~ lions turned to gall while her husba'
Is imagines he is enjoying himself wi
- hilarious companions. In reality,
~ is not enjoying it-an uneasy co
's science, that like Banquo's ghost W
not down, is ever at his elbow. He
last turns homeward, with the pleasi1
~ consciousness that he has bebarred
chance of happiness at home, and pr
~ sesses o reduced modicum OF mon
y and brains for his pains. There Dug
80 to be some sort of capital pun'shme
for man who neglects his wife a
.' home. If he got his deserts, "a
100 would never be wife and childr'
~ and the friendship and respe ct OF mi
." There are reforms and reforms
think society has II in its hands
=. do great and lasting good by disco
,at tenaucing that man who neglects