Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-04-19
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From Hester NJ poole's philosophy OF Living
in Good Housekeeping
Fired by ambition and involved deeper
aud deeper in speculation, Mr. Southmavd
finally saw the bubble burst Everything
went stocks lands, and the beautiful
home which had grown through all the
years since the two put into it their life,
love and courage, all we're swept away
like a dream Not being villain, Mr..
Southmayd had made no provision TO cheat
creditors by putting property in his wife's
name or cuucealment in any form. He
now bitterly regretted, however that the
house mad not originally been secured to
her. lie had "A proud mans desire to own
the house he lived in, a determination to
have everything in his own pow err increas-
ed by Aunt Ruth suggestions that he should
place the deed in his wifes name. He had
been nettled 10y the supposition that his
cherished wife should ever come TO want,
and thought he detected in Aunt Ruth
mercenary spirit Like many another man,
he could take no advice from a woman.
What he had earned he determined to con
troll without any interference
He saw it oil now In narrow, selfish
pride he had subjected that wife to the dir
est poverty IN case his health should fail
His wife had rights as well as other credit
ors As a faithful wife, mother, house
keeper, manager and friend she had earned
good home, and ought to have it in her
own right. Should not his duty to her
have outweighed pride As a housekeeper
during nineteen years she could have earn
ed a goodly sum. As nurse, companion
friend and teacher to his children she de
/ ynd ne oh cha haA a
all this for love. He would have secuted
the thought Of partnership or hire. Did
not she have all she wanted She Jared as
well as he, and she had never earned any
money in her life
So he had always said but, somehow. it
| gave him no comfort in this extremity 1T
is ridiculous to talk about a wife's business
relations with her husband I'd like to see
my vile try to vote or own property Its
her place to keep my house, take care of
my children, and make pleasant home for
me when | come from making her living.
| She has an individuality Of her own and
might like to express it 2 She might like
to feel she is not n pauper, dependent on
me Nonsense Let women keep in
/ their places and not crowd into men s.
| That's the trouble. They talk about earn.
ing their living. 1t is not their duty. They
should be supported in homes where grace,
delicaay and genteness will be inherited
from generation TO generation
Talk like this he grimy remembered
now and he remembered, too, that on the
occasions when he had expressed these and
similar sentiments, his wife had said moth
ing. With lightning rapidity it also cam,
to Mr.. Southmayd in this dark hour that in
the excited life he had hitherto led in hi-
anxiety to amass wealth, he had taken little
time to enjoy his children or his wife
| There was always something in the future
to be grasped he had no time to sit at
ease today 1t is true, his wife's system OF
training the children had sometimes called
out remonstrances from him. Why should
the girls well as the boys he taught to dc
things which the servant could do for them
he didn't want his children to work "a he
had done. They should have good time
and everything they wanted so long as he
was able to give it to them. But, thank,
to that mysterious gift of intuition, won
ans divinest heritage, Mrs Southmayd real
lzed that good health, good habits, lndu,
trial, mental and moral training were OF
more value than much gold and these old
fashioned vi tues she had taken care t,
teach her children Now came her re
ward as they were forced to walk a path
way borderel 10y Justice and Colnpensa
tiou. Hencefurth their house must b,
small their diet plain, their labor continu
Gus but what matter, it since they wer,
all spared to labor together and begin hf,
again on true basis All through thei
short lives the mother had sought to i'm
press upon them the truth that simplicity
of life Is ten fold better for character than
luxury, and now the prospect of poverty
instead of o,erw helming them with dismay
inspired them with uobler impulses and al
earnest desire to help themselves and each
other