News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-03-01

whether among the SHOWS at Valley Forge or
amid the hOnors of the presidential chair.
PlIny's pen was driven through all its poetic
and historical dominions by his wife Calpur-
ma, who sang his stanzas to the sound of
flute and sat among audiences enraptured
at her husbands genius, herself the most
enraptured. Peric,es said he got all his
eloquence and stateSmanShp from his wife
The wife of Grotius rescued him from
long Imprisonment at Lovestein by means of
a bookcase that went in and out, carrying
books to AMI fro, and he was transported
hidden amid the foliOs and the women of
beSleged Welns5erg, getting permission from
the victorious army to take with them so
much of their valuables as they could carry,
under cover of the promise shouldered and
took with them as the most important valua-
bles their hushands-both achievements in
literal way illustrated what thousands of
biules has been done in figurative way, that
w1fely ambition has been the salvation of
men
De Tocqueville, whose writings will be po-
tentjal and quoted while the world lasts.
ascribes his success to his wife, and says: "Of
all the blessings which Col has given to me,
the greatest of all in my eyes is to have
lighted on Maria Motley" Martin Luther
says of his wife: 81 would not exchange my
poverty with her for all the riches of Croesus
without her" Isabella of SPAIN by her su-
perior faith in Columbus, put into the hand
of Ferdinand, her husband, America John
Adams, president of the United States, said
of his wife: " She never, by word or look
discouraged me from running all hazards for
the salvation of my countrys liberties"
of his life in trying by his pen to atone
for the fact that during his wife's
life he never appreciated her influ-
ence on his career and destiny Alas,
that having taken her from beautiful home
and brilliant career, he should have buried !
her in the home of recluse and scolded her
in such language as only dyspeptic genins
could manage, until one day, while in her in
validism riding in Hyde Park, her pet dog |
got run over, and under the excitement the
Coachman found her dead. Then the liter
ary giant woke from his conjugal injustice
and wrote the lamentations of Craigen-Put-
took and Cheyne Row. The elegant and full |
some epitaphS that husbands put upon their
wives tombstones are often an attempt to
make up for lack of appreciative words that |
should have been uttered in the ears of the |
living. A whole Greenwood of monumental |
Inscriptions will not do wife so much good |
after she has quit the orld. as one plain sem |
tence like that which Tom Hood wrote to his
living wife when he said: 81 never was any
thing till knew you."
Oh, woman, what is your wifely ambition,
noble or ignobe? Is it high social position!
That will then probably direct your husband,
and he will climb and scramble and slip and |
fail and rise and tumble, and on what level |
or in what depth on what height he will |
after a while be found | cannot even guess. |
The contest for social position is the most un- |
contest in all the world, because |
it is so uncertain about your getting it, and |
so insecure a possession after you have OBJ |
tanned it, and 50 satisfactory even if you |
keep it. The whisk of a lady's fan may blow |
it out. The growl of one bear or the below
ing of one bull on Wall street may scatter it.
Is the wifes ambition the political prefer
of harb bT1Sh at will h. !
ably direct him. What a God forsaken
realm is American politics those best know
who have dabbed in them. After they have
assessed man who is a candidate for office
which he does not get, or assessed him for
some office attained, and he has been whirled
round and round and round and round among
the drinking, smoking, swearing crowd who
often get control of public affairs, all that is
left of his self-respect or moral stamina |
would find plenty of room on geOmetrical !
point, which is said to have neither length, |
been satisfied till her husband Went into poli
tics, but would afterWard have given all she
possessed to get him out.
knew highly moral man, useful in the
church and pOssessor of q bright home. He
had useful and prosperous business, but his |
wife did not think it genteel enough. There |
were odors about the business and sometimes
they would adhere to his garments when he |
returned at night. She insisted on his do
ing something more elegant, although he was
qualified for no business except that in which
he was engaged. To please her he change
his business, and in order to get on faster
abandoned church attendance, saying that
after he had made certain number of hun
dreds of thousands of dollars he would return
to the church and its services Where is
that family to-day? Obiterated. Although
in business for which he was
qualified he undertook a style of merchan-
disc for which he had no qualification and
soon went into bankruptcy. His new style |
of bus ness put him into evil association. he |
lost his morals as well as his money. He |
broke Tip not only his own home, but broke |
UP another mans home, and from being |
kind pure, generous, moral man as any of |
YOU who sit here to-day, has become home |
less, penniess libertine. His wifes ambition |
for a more geEteel business destroyed him !
and disgraced her and bhghted their only |
child.
But suppose now there be in our homes, as
thank God there are in hundreds of homes |
here represented, on the wifely throne one |
who SAYS not only by her words nuU more |
powerfully by her actions: MY husband, our
1eStines are united; let us see where indus.
brv, honesty, common sense and faith III God |
will put ua | am with you iii all your en-
;erprises Icannot be with you in person az
you go to your daily business, but L will be
with you in my prayers. Let us see what we
,an achieve by having God in our hearts, and
Sod in our lives, and God in our homes. Be
IN the side of everything good. Go ahead
md do your best, and though everything
should turn out different from what We
nave calculated, you may always count on
,wo who are going to help you, and God Is
,ne and | am the other" That man may have
'eeble health, and may meet with many
obstacles and business trials but he is
coming gloriously through, for he is re-
and inspired, and spurred on by a
yoman's voice, as much as was Barak by
Deborah, when Sisera, with 800 iron charlots,
,ame ON to crush him and his army, and
Deborah shouted i'll the ear of Barak: up!
FOR this is the day in which the Lord hath
delivered SiSera into thine hands And the
nemy fell back, and Sisera's chariot not get
ing along fast enough in the retreat, the
general jumped out and took 1T atoot, and ran
ill he came to place where woman first
rave him a drink of milk, and then sent
pike through his skull, mailing him to the
1oor.
Some of us could tell of what influence
lpon us has been wifely ambition con-
ecrated to Righteousness. As my wife is out
If town and will not shake her head because
say it in public, l will state that in my own
[ have often been called or
5od, as l thought, to run into the very teeth
If public opinion, and all outsiders with
whom | advised told me | had better not, 1T
would ruin me and ruin my church, and at
jhe same time | was receiving nice little let
5erS threatening me with dirk and pistol and
poison if persisted in attacking certain evils
considered it his duty to take his place
n our Sabbath services, with forty Off
,ers scattered through the house for the
preservation of order; but in my home there
mas always been one voice to say: go ahead
md diverge not an inch from the straight
inc. Who cares, if only God is on our side!n
And though sometimes it seemed as if | was
going out against 800 iron chariots, | went
ahead cheered by the domestic voice: "Up!
or this is the day in which the Lord hath
delivered Sisera into thine hands"
A man is no better than his wife will let
him be. Oh, wives of America, swing your
cepters of wifely influence for God and good
lomesl Do not urge your husbands to an
lex Naboth's vineyard to your palace of sue
'eSs, whether right or wrong, lest the dogs
hat come out to destroy Naboth come out
llso to devour you. Righteousness will pay
oeSt in life, will pay best in death, VIII pay
oest in the judgment, will pay best through
I'll eternity.
In our effort to have the mother of every
appreciate her influence over her |
children we are apt to forget the wfe'S inlu-
lence over the husband. In many households |
,he inauence upon the husband is the only |
nome influence. In a great multitude of the |
pest and most important and most tai |
'nted families of the earth there have |
been no descendants. There is not a
'hild or a gran lchild or any remote descend |
ant of Washington, or Charles Sumner, or |
or Edmund Burke, or Pitt, or |
Lord Nelson or Cowpor, or Pope or Addison, |
Or johnson, or Lord Chatham, or Swift or |
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