The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1886-03-02


rather talk with his wife than any one
else il she could talk IS we'll.
! charge you, my sister, in everv wav
to make your home attractive. have
not enough-cf practical kno wledge about
house adornment to know just what
makes the d difference, but here is an opu.
lent house. containing all wealth of bric-
shrac, and OF musicsl instruments, and
OF painting, and of upholstery, and yet
there is in 1t q chiId.like Nova Gambia
Another home, with one-twenlieih part
OF the outlay, and small supply Of art,
and cheapest riano purchasable, and yet,
IS you enter it. there comes upon body,
Innind and socl glow .or Welcome and
satisfied and happy domesticity. The
:haIy art OF making the most comfort
a1d brightness out Of the means afford
ed, every wIre should study
AT THE SIEGE OF ARGOS,
Pyrrbus was killed by the tile of roof
thrown by woman, and Abimelech was
slam by o stone that a woman threw from
the tower Of Thebez, and Earl Montfort
vas destroyed by rock discharged at
him BY woman from the walls OF Tou.
louise. But without any weapon save thai
OF her cold. cherries household arrange.
ment any wife may say all the attractions
of q home circle. A wife and mother in
prosperous circumstances and greatly ad-
mired, VAS giving her chief time to So
ca! life. The husband spent his evenings
away. The son fifteen years OF age, 60.
the same habit, and there was prospect
that the other children, as they got old
enough, would take the same turn. One
day the wife aroused to tie consideration
that che had better save her husband and
her boy. Interesting and stirring games
we're introduced into the house. The
mother studied up interesting things to
tell her children One morning the son
said: Father. you ough. to have been
home last night. We had grand time
Such Jolly games and such interesting g
s'ories." This went on from night to
night ,and after while the husband stay.
ed in 10 see what was going on, and be
finally got attracted and added something
of his own to the evening entertain
ments; and the result was that the wife
and mother saved her husband and saved
her boy and saved herself. Was not
tha! an enterprise worth the attention OF
the greatest woman that ever lived since
Abigail at the foot of the rock arrested
the four hundred armed warriorsp
woMAN's MISSION.
Do not, my sisler, be dizzied and dis.
turbed by the talk of those who think the
home circle too Insignificant for a wo-
mans career, and who want to get you
out on platforms and In conspicuous
enterprises. There are women who have
a special outside mission, and do not
dare to interpret me as derisive Of their
important mission. But my opinion is
that the woman who can reinforce her
husband in the work OF life and rear her
children for positions of usefulness, is
doing more for God and the race and her
own happiness, than il she spoke on
every great platform and headed bun-
dled great enterprises. My mother never
made missionary speech in her iife.and
at missionary meeting | doubt whether
she could have got enough coursge 10
vote aye or no, but she raised her son
John, who has been preaching the gospel
and translating religious literature In
Annoy China, for abont forty wears. Was
not hat better thing to do?
Compare such an one with one OF
these die-away, atiitudirizing, frivolous,
married coqnettes OF the modern draw.
ing.room, her heaven an opera-box on
the night OF Meyerbeer's "Robert lie Dia.
ble," the ten commandments an incon-
venience. taking ars, mic to improve the
complexion, and her appearance con-
fused result OF belladons. bleached hair,
sn,imony and mineral acids. until one il
compelled to discuss her character and
wonder whether the line between decent
and indecent life is, like the equator, al
imaginary line.
| a WHAT TINE wGRLD WANTS
now is abont fftv oid.fashioned mothers
women who shall realize that the hio best
grandest, mightiest institution on eartt
is the home. 1t is not necessary thai
they should have the same old-time man
ners OF the country farm house, or veal
the old-fashioned cap and spectacles and
aprons that her glori8ed ancestry wore
but l mean the :old spirit which begsr
with the Hannahs and the Mother Lois
aud the Abigails of Scripture days, and
was demonstrated on the homestead
where come of rs we're reared, though
the old house was long ago pulled do wn
and the occupants scattered never to
meet until in the higher home that asaits
the family of the right eous. While there
are more good and faithful wives and
mothers now than there ever we're, so
ciety has got wrong twist on this sub.
ject. aud there are Influences sbroad that
would make women believe that their
sphere ia outside instead OF inside the
house.
HENCE IN MANY HOUSEHOLDS CHILDREN IN
| STEAD OF A BLESSING ARE A NUISANCE.
1t Is card case versus child's primer
carriage versus cradle, social popularity
versus domestic felicity. Hence infanti
eide and an,e-natal murder so common
that all the physicians. allopathic, hydro.
| pathic, homeopathic and eclectic, are
crying out in horror and it Is time that
the pulpits joined with the medicsl pro-
fession in echoing and re-echoing the
thunder of Mount Sinai, which says:--
"Thou shalt not KILL and the Book ol
Revelation which says, "All murderers
shall have their place in the lake which
burneth with FIRE and brimstone." And
the man or woman who takes life a min.
ute old will as certainly go straight to
hell as the man or woman who destroys
life forty years old. And the widest
loudest shrek Of Judgment Day will be
given at the overthrow of those who
moved in the high and respected circles
of earthly society, yet decrief by their
own act as far as they could privately
effect it, the extermination Of the ad-
vancing generations, abetted in the hor-
rid crime bv lot of internal qnacks
with which modern medicine Is infested
When. on the Last Day, the criers OF the
Court shall with rssouLding "Opez,"