Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-02-24

vi was a reflection Of the heroic in his wife
Margaret William, Prince of Orange, was
restored to the right path by the grand
qualities of his wife Mary Justinian, the
Roman Emperor, confesses that his wise laws
were the suggestion of mis- wife Theolora.
Andrew jackson, the warrior and president,
mad his .niightiest reinforcement in his plain
wife, whose inartistic attire was the amuse-
ment of the elegant circles in which she was
| invited. Washington; who broke the chain
that held America in foreign vassalage, wore
for forty years chain around his own neck,
that chain holding the miniature likeness Of
her who had been his greatest inspiration
whether among the SHOWS at Valley Forge or
amid the honors of the presidential chair
Plinys pen was driven through all its poetic
and historical dominions by his wife Calpur-
nia who sang his stanzas to the sound of
flute aud sat among audiences enraptured
Mt her husbands genius, herself the most
enraptured. Pericles said he got all his
eloquence and craftsmanship from his wife
The wife of Grotius rescued him from
long Imprisonment at Lovestein by means Of
bookcase that went in and out carrying
books to and fro, and he was transported
hidden amid the folios; and the women of
besieged Weinsberg, 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 husbands-both achievements in
literal way Illustrated what thousands of
times has been done In fguratve way, that
wifely ambition has been the salvation of
men.
DE Tocqueville whose writings will be DO
tential and quoted while the world lasts
Ascribes his success to his wife, and says: "Of
all the blessings which God has given to me,
the greatest of all in my eyes is to have
lighted on Maria Motley.n 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 SUI
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 country's liberties. -
Thomas Carlyle spent the last twenty years
Of his life in trying by his pen to atone
for the fact that during his wife's
life he never appreciated her infIu,
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
airy 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 world, as one plain SEN
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 ignobleR 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 or on what height he will
after while be found cannot even guess.
The contest for social position is the most I'M
satisfactory contest i'll all the world, because
it is SO uncertain about your getting it, and
so insecure a possession after you have OBJ
tanned it, and so unsatisfactory even if you
keep it. The whisk of 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 wife's ambition the political prefer
ment of her husband3 Then that will prob
ably direct him. What a God forsaken
realm is American politics those best know
who have dabbled in them After they have
assessed a 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 OF moral stamina
would find plenty of room on a geometrical
point, which is said to have neither length,
breadth nor thickness. Many wife has not
been satisfied till her husband went into poll
tics, but would afterward have given all she
possessed to get him out.
! l knew highly moral man, useful in the
church and possessor of a 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 changed
his business, and in order to get on faster
abandoned church attendance, saying that
after he had made a 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
succeeding in business for which he was
, qualified he undertook style of merchan.
disc for which he had no qualification and
soon went into bankruptcy. His new style
of business put him into evil association. He
| lOoU HIS dis as well us HIS illUHbJs III
broke up not only his own home, but broke
! up another mans home, and from being q
kind, pure. generous, moral man as any OF
you who sit here to-day, has become home
less, penniless libertine. His wife's ambition
for a more genteel business destroyed him
and disgraced her and blighted 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 wOriS bI5 NOR
powerfully by her actions: my husband, Dul
destinies are united; let us see where indus
try, honesty, common sense and faith in Cos
will put u.s. / am with you in all your Ell
terprises. Icannot be with you in person a.
you go to your daily business, but l will bt
with you in my prayers. Let us see what W.
can achieve by having God i'll our hearts, anC
God in our lives, and God in our homes. Bt
on the side of everything good. Go aheaf
and do your best, and though everything
should turn out different from what WI
have calculated, you may always count OF
two who are going 10 help you, and God il
one and am the other" That man may bav,
feeble health, and may meet with many
obstacles and business trials, but he i
coming gloriously through, for he is re
enforced, and inspired, and spurred on by {
womans voice, as much as was Barak 10y
Deborah, when Sisera, with 900 iron chariots
came on to crush him and his army, am
Deborah shouted in the ear of Blrak: "Up
for this is the day in which the Lord hail
delivered Sisera into thine hands And th
enemy fell back, and Siseras chariot not get
ting along fast enough in the retreat, tn
general jumped out and took it afoot, and RAJ
till he came to place where woman frs
gave him a drink of milk, and then sent
spike through his skull, mailing him to tn
| floor.
Some Of us could tell of what iniuenc
upon us has been a wifely ambition con
secrated to righteousness. As my wife is on
of town and will not shake her head becaus
l say it in public, ] viii state that in my ow
PROFESSIONALISM have often BEEN called 9
God, as thought, to run into the very teet
of Duhlic Oninion- and all outsiders wit