The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-11-26
THE MODEL HUsBAND.
Hon. Will Cumback's Tribute to the Mar
Who Will Never Have q Monument.

Hon. Will Cumback's Tribute to the Man
Who Will Never Have q Monument
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The seating capacity of the First Christian
Church is very large, but it was fairly we'll
taxed last night The occasion was the lecture
of the Hon. Will Cumback on the subject of the
Model Husband" / his treatment of this sub
ject Mr.. Cumback to k the side of the minority
and upheld the husband in very vigorous style
lie is charming elocutionist-one of the kind
whose study Of the art is so thorough that one
thinks of simplicity rather than of any art at all
as he listens, and his voice is resonant in COM
pass and particularly sweet. In a word, MIR.
Cumback is born to the platform, and it is prob
able that he never gave more pleasing illustra-
ton of the fact than he gave last night
The lecturer began by saying that there was
no character in history-and he wished it under
stood that he regarded really great fictions as
the profoIndest history-whom he regarded
more highly thar genial Mark Tapley. All hus-
bands should initiate him. and by course of
study, more less severe, learn to be Jolly un-
der the most adverse circumstances. The man
who can make things happiest at home-the
man who, leaving world of worry and deceit,
heart-sore and weak, can kiss the little faces
pinned against the window watching for him,
and freshen the spirits of his wife and children,
is one of the greatest men who walks
the earth, matter what his standing at
the bank. The model husband is of this
class. He. himself, may need comfort for a
heart which is sore But he must lift his family
from the slough of despond into which his model
wife--variousiy referred to by the neighbors as
martyr and model-has industriously plunged
them in his absence. He must assure her that
to his personal knowledge the baby on the next
square did not die of scarlet fever that the pave
ment will be repaired in front of the house next
week: that the street-car bells have been ordered
taken off, by a vote of the stockholders of the
company that he has finally com leted business
arrangements by which he will not be eept from
home later than o'clock of afternoons-and
generally talk in such manner as TO bring color
TO the wan cheek of his angel wife and make the
children happier.
Some men--indeed. the lecturer would ADMIT
that most men-would go down town and quietly
get drunk But the model husband not of
this sort at all He died early, but he made his
family happier while he lived, and, beyond
doubt. had front seat in heaven. In life they
are ignored; in poetry and song not one of them
has ever had rhyme fitted to his name, nor
called an angel, nor even toasted at a banquet;
but IN death they have their reward.
Mr. Cumback then proceeded to allude to DIR.
Willis who he said, forgetful enough to
quote Solomon's description of a model wife, but
neglected to mention the query with which it
was followed: "Where shall such a woman be
foundP He said that Solomon had every chance
to find her and had made seven hundred at
tempts In vain, in view of which the young
and unwary man with only chance
should be careful AS to their admission into
poiltlcS ne Salu LnaJ In the state OF new HamD-
SHIRE. long ago, women were permitted to vote,
and, in point of fact-a fact which NAV or may
not have bearing on his own politlcs-tae speak
ers father and mother voted arm in arm for
Thomas Jefferson He regretted to state, how
ever. that the next Legislature of that State had
repealed the law because the women with their
false hair and other wonderful contrivances for
disguise had too largely increased the fraudulent
vote for suffering man to endure 1t.
In conclusion, the speaker ventured the
fhnr1nh g.
stand together better-rally around each other
as it were-and occasionally give three cheers
for themselves, instead of becoming discouraged
by the poets and losing their grip on life