Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-06-01
JOBS PATIENT WIFE.
A g.. Paul Philosopher Does Justice 10 n
Wrongod Woman.

Job was wonderfully afflicted
man, but us n partial compensation
for it lie has ha tho sympathy of tho
human race for four thousand years.
But it has not bccn so with jobs
wife. Nobody has ever spoken n kind
word Of her. On tho contrary, she
has boon held up for forty con-
turtles n, n horrible example. But for
all that wc are confident tho poor
woman deserves better place in his
tory than sho has ever occupied II
she was sour-tompcrcd she had
enough 10 give an acid tingo to her
disposition. She was made to drink
tho dregs from q very bitter cup, and
it is probable that she bore her
troubles with about as much equanim-
ity as tho average woman would do.
In tho first place she was suddenly
reduced from luxury to pcnury.
Any unfortunate woman who has
suffered this orleal knows Just tho
frame Of mind poor Mrs, Job was in.
In the next place she was bercft of
her children. There is no grief so bur-
densomo Us that which falls upon .
mothers heart when the grave hides
her children from her sight
In addition to. this accumulation Of
sorrows, she was left with an invalid
husband on her hands. Job was COW
cred with boils. and experience has
taught us that there is no more exas-
perating patient than man with a
boil on him. There are wives, and
good wives, too, in this Christian land
of ours whose lives have been made
most miserable for days and weeks at
time by n husband with one boil.
just think, then, what this poor wom-
an had to endure with hus sbaud with
perhaps from five hundred to thou
sand bois OH himl Is it any wonder
that the woman encouraged her hus-
band to terminate his existencep The
only wonder is that she didn't cut her
own throat In despair
But these were not all the troubles
that jobs wifc had to bear. Her hus-
band friends came on visit to him
and took possession of tho house for
six weeks at n time. Other women,
and good women, too. have had to en-
dure the same afllclion, and they can
very easily account for Mrs. jobs ex-
hibition of bad temper. Job got wor-
ried with the three visitors himself,
and yet he didn' have TO wait on thom,
to clean up their rooms 10 wipo tho
tobacco juice from the parlor carpet
overy day. to sweep out the mud they
carried in on their boots. and TO sub
nit to the thousand and one annoy
ance3 that male visitor gives tho
housekceper
1t is about time that somebody was
raising voice In defense of Jobs
wife, and saying kind word for the
poor woman who for four thousand
years has suffered the slings of unjust
criticism in uncomplaining silence.
There are great many Jobs wives
in the world to-,lay. We meet them
every day. They may not have hus-
bands with boils ON their bodies, but
they have husbands who go to the
clubs of evenings. Thcy have hus-
bands who are selfish enough to de-
vote all their time 10 business and
pleasure without considering that a.
portion of that time of right belongs
to the woman, the charm of whose
existence is his companionship. The
jobs wives of to-day are the women
who are burdenod with tho cares and
sorrows of this life, and who get no
sympathy. And their name is legion.
st Paul Globe.