Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-03-10
xusr,cE TO AS. JOE.
AFTER 1000 Years Abuse She Finds
nm Able Defender.

ANtGE NgVVV hNaHs A88NC - ~
nm Able Defender.
Job was q wonderfully afflicted
man, but IS q partial compensation
for it, he has had the Sympathy of the
human race for 1000 years. Bat it
has not been so with Jobs wife.
Nobody has ever spoken o kind
word of her. On the contrary, she
has been held up for 40 centuries as
a horrible example. But for all that
we are confident the poor woman
deserves q better place in history than
she has ever occupied. II she was
sour-tempered, she had enough to
give an acid tinge to her disposition.
She was made to drink the dregs
| from q very bitter cup, and it is
possible that she bore her troubles
With about Is much equanimity as
the average woman would do.
In the first place. she was sud-
denly reduced from luxury. 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 30
burdensome as that which falls upon
q mothers heart when the grave
| hides her children from sight.
In addition to this accumulation
of sorrows she was left with an in
valid husband on her hands. Job
was covered with boils, and expert
ence has taught us that there is no
more exssperating patient than q
man with q boil on him. There are
wives, too, in this Christian land OF
| ours whose lives have been made
most miserable for days and weeks
at q time by a husband and one boil.
Just think, then, what this poor
woman had to endure with O hus-
band with perhaps from 500 to 1000
boils on him. Is it any wonder that
the woman encouraged her husband
to terminate his existence? The
only wonder is that she didn't cut
her own throat in despair.
But these we're not all the
troubles that Jobs wife had to bear.
Her husbands friends came on a
visit to him, and took possession OF
the house for six weeks at q time.
| Other women, too, have had to n
dure the same affection, and they
can very easily account for Mrs.
| Jobs exhibition of bad temper.
Job got worried with the three
visitors himself, and yet he didn't
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
submit to the thousand and n an
noyanoes that @ male visitor gave the
house-keeper.
1t is about time that somebody was
raising O voice in defense OF Jobs
wife, and saying a kind word for the
poor woman who, for 1000 years has
suffered the sings of unjust criticism
in accomplishing silence.
There are a great many Jobs
wives in the world to-day. We
meet them every day. They may
not have husbands with boils on
their bodies, but they have husbands
who go to the clubs of evenings,
They have husbands who are selfish
enough to devote all their time to
business and pleasure without con-
sidering that a portion of that time
of right belongs to the woman, the
charm of whose existence is his COM
partnership. The Jobs wives of to-
day are the women who are bur-
dened with the cares and sorrows Of
this life and who get no sympathy.
And their name is legion.-St. Paul
Globe.