The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1888-03-03
JOBS PATIENT WIFE.
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WrOnged Woman.

Wronged Woman.
Job was a wonderfully afflicted
man, but as a partial compensation
for it he has had the sympathy of the
human az for four thousand years.
But it has not been so with Jobs
wife. Nobody has ever spoken a kind
word OF her. On the contrary, she
has been held up for forty GEN.
turtles as a horrible example. But for
all that we are confident the poor
woman deserves a better place in his.
tory than she has ever occupied. If
she was sour-tempered she had
enough to give an acid tinge to her
disposition. She was made to drink
the dregs from a very bitter cup. and
1t is probable that she bore he +
troubles with about as much equanim-
ity as the average woman would do.
In the first place she was suddenly
reduced from luxury to perjury.
Any unfortunate woman who has
suffered this ordeal knows jus. tho
frame Of mind poor Mrs. Job was in.
In the next place she was bereft Of
her children. There is nc grief so bur.
densome as that which falls upon a
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 coy
cred with boils, and experience has
taught us that there is no more exas.
perating patient than a 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 al
a time by a husband with one boil.
Just think, then, what this poor WON.
al had to endure with a usband with
perhaps from five hundred to a thou.
sand boils On him! 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
W throat in despair.
But these were not all the troubles
that Jobs wife had to bear. Her hus.
bands friends came on a 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 affection. and they car
very easily account for Mrs. Jobs ex.
hibition Of bud temper. Job got wor.
ried with the three visitors himself,
and yet he didn't have to wait on them,
to clean up their rooms, 10 wipe the
tobacco juice from the parlor carpet
every day. to sweep out the mud they
carried in on their boots. and to sub
NIT to the thousand and one annoy.
ances that a male visitor gives the
hOusekeeper.
1t is about time that somebody was
raising voice in defense Of jobs
wife, and saying a kind word for the
poor woman who for four thousand
years has suffered the sings of unjust
criticism in accomplishing silence.
There are n great many Jobs wives
in the world to-day. We meet them
every day. They may not have hus.
bands with boils on their bodies but
they have husbands who 60 to the
clubs Of evenings. They have hus-
bands who are selfish enough to do.
vote all their timo 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 bnrlened with tho cares and
sorrows Of this life. and who get no
sympathy. And their name is legion.
St. Paul Globe.