Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1889-07-23
JUSTICE TO MRS. JOB
A Woman Deserving o Better Place Than
She Has Ever Occupied.

A Woman Deserving o Better Place Than
She Has Ever Occupied.
Job was wonderfully-afilicted man,
but, as partial compensation for it,
he has had the sympathy OF the human
race for four thousand years. But II
has not been so with Jobs wife. No
body has ever spoken kind word o.
her. On the contrary, she has been
held up for forty centuries as horri-
BILE example. But for all that we are
confident the poor woman deserves a
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 bitter
cup, and it is possible that she bore
her troubles with about as much
.equanimity rs tho average woman
would do.
| In the first place, she was suddenly
reduced from luxury to penury. Any
unfortunate woman who has suffered
this ordeal knows just tho frame OF
mind Mrs. Job was in.
In the next place, she was bereft OF
her children. There is no grief so
burdensome as that which falls upon a
mothers heart when the grave hides
her children from sight
In addition TO this accumulation OF
sorrows. she was left with an invalid
husband on her hands. job was
covered 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 at
a time by n husband and one boil. just
think then what this poor woman had
TO endure with husband with perhaps
from five hundred TO one thousand
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 were not all the troubles
that jobs wife had to bear. Her hus-
bands friends came on visit to him
and took possession OF the house for
six weeks at time Other women.
and good women, too, have had to en-
dure the same atfliction, and they can
easily account for Mrs. Jobs exhibit
ton 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 to-
bacco juice from the parlor carpet
every day, to sweep out the mud they
carried in on their boots, and to sub
init to the thousand and one annoy
ces that Il male visitor gives the house,
keeper.
1t is about time that somebody was
raising a voice in defense OF Jobs
wife and saying u kind word for the
poor woman, who for four thousand
years has suffered the slings OF unjust
criticism in accomplishing silence.
There arc 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 go to the clubs
Of evenings. They have husbands
who are selfish enough TO devote all
their time to business and pleasure
without considering that portion of
that time OF right belongs to the wo- |
man, the charm of whose existence is
his companionship. 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. Ladies'
Home Companion.