The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1886-01-01
7 lie MONITOR
HUSBAND AMP WIVES.
Rev sam Jones ON Their Treatment of
Each other.

sam Jones. of Georgia the weil-known
reviYaiist. thus discoufses on the treat
ment Of wives by husbands. aud rice
cersa: ITS ten thousand times harder TO
be Just than generous 1t is easy enough
to give a poor woman dollar, but when it
comes to follow a straight line, being just
in all things. just to God 10 your family.
your children, to all men. it IS different
thing. some men are never just TO their
wives. They pay their cook s. very will
ingly Saturday night, but when the hard
working. economical, pains-taking wife
asks for little money on Monday, the
brute will say: 80 wife. what do you want
with money! know fellow in tieor-
gia who had been married ten years. His
wife suggested that that was her birthday.
and he said to himself: I've got GOOD
wife: she has been kind. self-sacFificing
and true in all respects: ! must buy her q
present So lie went dom town that
day and walked into lat store and
bought himself new hat, consoling hin-
self that nothing would more please i
good wife than to make her husband
present of new hat He's the meancst
man ever saw. and there are great
many men just that way.
We are too often unjust to our chill
dren, exacting from them things we don t
do ourselves, and berating them with our
tongue when they don't understand wlat
we want. And then we are too mean 10
say ten words to make them happy.
Or, how unjust we are to wives. husbands,
children If you'll put a little down
right justice in your conduct to your chill
dren, you will have happier homes. Did
You ever start anywhere with your wife.
and keep her hurrying up. when you
ought To know that She has not only todress
herself, but five children besides, While you
have nothing to do but get rcady2 Hurry
up, hurry up, don't want to be late. II
you don't hurry up III go on by myself.
And after a while size tells You to Go OH
husband: I'm afraid can't get ready in
time; don't want to hinder you I've
done Just that way / have walked off.
ont the gate and fifty yards down the road,
and then I'd stop and think. I'd say;
Sam Jones you are the meanest man liy-
ing. and you shan't 20 TO church nor any
where else till you learn how to behave
yourself And then I walk back. and 90
in and find worry in my wife'S face and
tears in her eyes, and 90 up and put my
arms around her and kiss her-theres no
body there but rs two-and say; Wife,
I'm just as mean as a dog; l know I am,
and want you 10 forgive me. and she
forgiyes me, and we get ready and go-and
find ourselves the first ones there
The Lord lave mercy on us; how unjust
We are 10 our wives, our children. our
brothers and sisters and our neighbors.
There are men in this town who meet a
ncighbor's wife on the streets and take of
their hats and bow. and smilcso sweet and
tendcrly, How arc yoH madam and then
20 home and wound their own wives with
their tongues. Clever To all wives but
their own And SO it is with some wives.
They are all smiles and kind words in COM
pany, and cut their husbands to the heart
with their tongues. God pity the man
who has such wife as that. don't
geold. IF do. ! intend to scold somebody
pisc's wife. / have heard mothers say,
sghep some neighbours child would break
some article Of value: 'Oh, it doesn't
matter, when. if their own child were to
DO it, they'd slap him clean across the
room Lord give rs a religion that will
make ms good 10 our wives and children
and friends and ncighbors ''