Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-06-23
JOBS PATENT WIFE.
st. Paul Philosopher Does Justice to
Wronged Woman.

A st. Paul Philosopher Does Justice to q
Wronged Woman.
Job was a. wonderfully afflicted
man, but as partial compensation
for it he has had the sympathy of the
human race for four thousand years.
But it has not been so with Jobs
wife. Nobody has ever spoken kind
word of her, On the contrary, she
has been held up for forty GEN.
turtles as horrible example. But for
all that we are confident the poor
woman deserves 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
it is probable that she bore her
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 just the
frame of mind poor Mrs Job was in.
In the next place she was bereft of
her children. There is no grief so bur-
densome rs 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 COW
cred with boils, and experience has
taught us that there is no more. eXas-
perating patient than q man with
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 hrSband with one boil.
Just think then, what this poor wom-
an had to endure with husband with
perhaps from five hundred to 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
own throat in despair.
But these were not all the troubles
that Jobs wife had to bear. Her hus-
band friends came on visit to him
and took possession of the house for
six weeks at n time. Other women,
and good women, too, have had to en-
dure the same affliction, 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 them,
to clean up their rooms, TO wipe the
tobacco juice from the parlor carpet
every day. to sweep out the mud they
carried in on their boots, and to SUBJ
nit to the thousand and one annoy
ances that male visitor gives the
housekeeper
1t is about time that somebody was
raising a voice in defense of job:
wife, and saying kind word for tho
poor woman who for four thousand
years has suffered the sings of unjust
criticism in accomplishing silence.
There are great many Jobs wive!
in the world to-day. We meet then
every day. They may not have hus
bands with boils on their bodies, but
they have husbands who go to the
clubs of evenings. They have hus-
bands who are selfish enough to de-
vote all their time to business and
pleasure without considering that q
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 womer
who are burdened with the cares ant
sorrows of this life and who get NJ
sympathy. And their name is legion
st Paul Globe.