Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-04-29

couple comes the reciprocal action of the inner
powers-their passions. prejudices-so that
they recoil on each other. They come to think
alike, to feel alike, as well as to LOOK alike.
The man unconsciously loses some of his
ruggedness. and the woman acquires some of
his breadth and strength. They become in
some measure refectors to each other, the
light one catches is cast on and brightens the
other, and they mirror whatever passes along
the face OF the other.
The subtle. mysterious modelling process had
begun on Philip. although but recently mar
ried. Janet was no longer in the house: she
had returned to France. and as her constitu-
tion was delicate had followed advice. and gone
to the South for the winter.
Mrs. Sidebottom and the captain had shaken
off the dust from their feet against Mergatroyd.
and had returned to their favorite city, York,
where they resumed the interrupted gyratlons
about the whirlpool of fashionable life, and
Mrs. Sidebottom made her usual rushes, still
Intellectual, at its center.
Consequently, Philip was left to the nndis-
turbed influence of Salome, and this influence
affected him more than he was conscious of,
and would have allowed was possible. He was
very happy. but he was not the man to confess
it, least of all to his wife, AS Canadian
Indian deems it derogatory to his dignity to
express surprise at any wonder of civilization
shown him, so did Philip consider that it COM
ported with his dignity to accept all the COM
forts, the ease, the love that surrounded him
as though familiar with them from the begin
ming. Englishmen who have been exposed to
tropic suns in Africa, have their faces shrivelled
aud lined. When they return to England,
in the soft, humid atmosphere the flesh ex-
pands and drinks in moisture at every pore.
The lines fade out and the flesh becomes plump.
So did the sweet, soothing influence of Salome,
ot,lo - fI,a
spirit of Philip and restore to him some of the
lost buoyancy of youth. Salome was admira-
bly, calculated to render him happy, and Philip
was not aware of the rare good fortune which
had given him wife who had the self-restraint
to keep her crosses to herself. That is not the
way with all wives. Many wife makes beast
of burden of her husband, lading him with
crosses, heaping on his shoulders not only her
own, great or small, but also all those of her
relatives, friends and acquaintance. Such a
wife cracks a whip behind her good man;
drives him through the town, stopping at every
house and calling: ANY old crosses! Old
crossesI Old crossesi Chuck them on, his back
is broad to bear themr' precisely as the scaven-
ger goes through the streets with his cart and
burdens it with the refuse of every house.
Many a wife takes pride in thus breaking the
back, and CALLING the sides, and knocking to-
gether the knees of her husband with the
crosses she piles on his shoulders.
AS we walk through the wilderness Of life,
burrs adhere to the coat Of Darby and to the
skirts of Joan. Why should not each carry his
or her own burrs if they refuse to be picked
off and thrown away? Why should Joan COL
lect all hers and poke them down the neck of
Darby, and expect him TO work them down his
back from the nape to the heel? Little thought
had Philip how, unperceived and by stealth,
Salome sought the burrs that adhered to him,
removed them and thrust them into her own
bosom. bearing them there with a smiling face,
and leaving him unconscious that he had been
delivered from any, and that they were fretting
her.
We men are sadly regardless of the thousand
little acts of forethought that tighten and ease
our course. We give no thanks, we are not
even aware of what has been done for us.
Nevertheless, our wives do not go unrewarded.
though unthanked for what they have done or
borne; their gentle attentions have served to
give US polish and beauty we had not before
we came into their tender hands.
A bright face met Philip when he returned
from the factory every day. If Salome saw that
he was downcast, she exerted herself to cheer
him; ii that he was cheerful, she was careful
not to discourage him. Always neat in person,
fresh in face, and pleasant In humor, keeping
out of Philips way whatever might annoy him,
she made him as happy as he could well be.
Perfectly happy Philip could not be. because
unable to shake off the sense of insecurity that
attended his change of fortune. Constitution
ally suspicious, habituated to the shade, he was
dazzled and frightened when exposed to the
light. The access of good luck had been too