The Dickinson press., 1889-03-02
She Earncd n Hanny Home.

Women must learn to preach. They must
learn that while me have hearts as soft as
their OWL, they carry them between shells as
nn oyster docs his whole incorporation, and
that shell closes as surely upon u sermon us
the other kind does on q stick. We all know
how women arc bound to marry mon that
they do not really approve Of. Some women
do this out of an cvangelical missionary spirit;
others do so for lack of anything more angelic.
The ones who marry tho last man, tho only
ma.l, nrc apt TO get along better in rcformu-
tory work than the missionaries. Whyi BE-.
cause they preach less.
a worthy example Of this rcforuatory
principle OF non-prcachment now adorrs New
York So@lrt.y a very pretty, clever woman
VA esliesl by u man about town to marry
him, She was Il girl who had had but Il
scant supply Of those aids to matrimony
which Surround a rich girl, aud she had
never had II Offer that was SO eligible from
n worldly point of view. Gho summed
the situation up and accepted him.
Wien asked her reasons by q man
who vas a closer conldant than any
woman could have been to her curious
nature, she put her summing up in words:
THAT man has run his race. l believe he is
q clear minded man, and that no has seen
enough of bad women and gay life to apprc.
ciate q decent wife and q tempting home. Hc
moro than habit. l know ho is the soul of
honor in business, and l do not beli"vo that
any man who lives up to his contracts in n
busine way is going to break Il contract
with the woman he loves. He loves me; I
am fond of him; and | am going to DO IL wife
to DO cnvied by every mothers girl who is
trottins off done up in rose color with beard
less boys who have all their fun yet to
conc"
She married him three years ago, and she
laid out q timc table that was worthy of nn
artist. She promised herself five things: To
be no~a-demonstrativo at breakfast, to DO
bright and jolly at dinner, to be loving and
babyish after dinner; not to havo u first
suuabblc, and never to preach ut him, bat at
the things he did.
Experience has taught every clever woman
the value of these first four resolves, but her
Interpretation of the preaching clause wa.
unia 10. Her treatment of tho drinking
question was this: She didn't say 'twa!
wicked, or horrid. or brutal. Sho simply
laughed at men who liked to nave thcil
NOUNS taste nasty in tho morning, a.d VIII,
didn't know it was as pleasant Cc- u woman
to Kiss q nico clean man as it was for IL maj
to kiss q sweet mouthed woman. To this SD
would now and again add a wide eyed wonde
that q mar could find it pleasure to max
himself feel dizzy and ill just for tho sake Q
saying idiotic things ct night u cling i
and disagreeable in the ND ning.
What was tho results She was so Glove
and amiablo about it that the man never ono
gave her the credit of thinking him anythin
but perfection. He loved her and was prou
of her, and he knew enough of the ways
this wicked world to be anxious to be the OIL
man in it to her. The result, friends, is the
this man is the most temperate man who eve
stopped this side of being a Prohibitions
that he swears by tho goodness Of that clove
wife of his. and that she is one of the hal
pest women who ever had tho sense to appr
ciate her happiness then she found it.
Frank Leslie's Weekly.