Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-11

There are two or three circumstances
in which the plainest wife is the queen
OF beauty to her husband, whatever her
stature or profile. BY financial panic or
betrayal Of business partner, the man
goes down, aud returning to his home
that evening he says: "l am ruined;
am in disgrace forever; care not wheth-
er live or die" II Is IN agitpted story
he .stelliuy in the household that winter
night He says: "rhe furniture must
80, tho house must 90, tile
social positicn must GO and
from being sought for Obseuu-
ously they must be cold9houldered eve
rywhere. After he ceases talking and
the Wife has heard all in silence, she
saws:
''s that all? Why, YOU had nothing
when | married you, and you have only
come back 10 where you started. IT you
think that my happiness and that Of the
children depend on these trappings, YOU
do not know me, though we have lived
together 80 years. God is not dead, and
the national bank Of heaven has not sus-
pended payment, and If yOu don't mind
don't care cent. What little We need OF
food and raiment the rest of our lives we
can get, and / don't propose to sit down
and NOPE and groau. Mary, hand me
that darnlug needle. And, John. Hight
Que Of the other rae burners And,
Jimmy. omen the register for little more
heat. Fanny, fetch your fathers slip
pers. / declare | have forgotten to set
the rieing for those cakes And while
she is busy at 1t he hears her hummiug
Newton's old hymn, To Morrow"
1T eau bring with it nothing
But he viii bear us through;
Who gives the lilies clothing
WilclOthe his people too;
Beneath the spreading heavens
No creature but Is fed;
And he who feeds lho ravens
WIN give his children bread.
"Though vine nor ig-tree either
Their WOutcd fruit should bear,
Though all the lelds should wither,
Nor Hooks nor herds he there;
Nei God the same abiding.
His prai slpll time my voice;
For while in Him conAdlng
cannot but rejoice"
Tire husband looks up In amazemeht
aud says: Nv ell, we'll; you are the great
est woman ! ever saw. / tpOugnt yOu
would faint dead away when told YOU
And as be looks dt her All Tie glofies Of
physioguOmy iu the court Of Louis XIV. on
the modern fashion plates are tame as
compared with the superbumau spleLdOrs
OF that wOman's face. Joan OF Arc, Mary
Antoinette, and La Belle Hamilton, the
enchantment OF the court OF Charles H.,
are nowhere.
There is another time when the
piaipest wife is a queen Of beauty
to her husband She has done the
work Of life. She has reared her chill
dren for God and heaven. and though
some Of them NAV he little wild they
/ will yet come back, for God has promised.
She is dying and her husband stands by,
! They think over all the years OF their
/ eOmpaniOnship-t weddings and the
/ burials, the ups and the downs,
! the successes and the failures.
/ Tney talk over the goodness OF God
and His faithfulness TO childreu's
/ children, She has no fear about going.
/ The Lord has sustained her 80 MANY
years she would not dare 20 distrust him
now. The lips OF both Of them tremble az
they say good bye and encourage each
other about an early meeting In a better
world The breath Is feebier aud ieebler,
and stops. Are you sure OF it2 just hold
that mirror at the mouth and see If there
is any yapOr gathering on the surface.
/ GOnel AS one Of the neighbors taxes the
| old man by the arm gently and says,
/ "COme, you had better go into the next
{ room and rest" he says: "Wait a mo-
meut; / must take one more look at that
! face and at those handsW BeaAst.d al
! Beautiful
| NV friends, | hope you do not call that
! death. That is an autumnal sunset. That
is crystalline river pouring into a cry
stSl sea. That is the solo OF humau lie
Overpowered by hallelujah chorus. That
is queens coronation. That Is heaven.
I That ia the way my father stood at ~,
seeing my mother depart at ~. Perhaps
30 your father and mother went. won.
der il we will die as we'll.