Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-06-22
DEFERRED JUSTICE TO MRS. JOB.
n WomaL Vho Deserves ~ Better Place In
History Than She Has Ever Occupied.

job was a wonderfully afflicted man.
bnt As partial compensation for it, he
has had the sympathy of the human
race for 1000 years. But it has not
been so with Jobs wife. Nobody has
the contrary, she has been held up for
forty centuries as a horrible example.
But FOR all that we are confident the
poor woman deserves a better place in
history than she has ever accepted. II
she was sour-tempered she had enough
TO give an acid tinge TO her disposition.
She was made TO drink the dregs froE
a bitter cup. and it is possible that she
bore her troubles with about as much
equanimity as the average wonlaa
would do.
IN the first place, she was suddenly
reduced from luxury to penurv. 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 so
b~urdensome as that which falls upon a
mothers heart when the grave hides
her children from sight.
Ia 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 thar n man with q 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 a husband and one boil. Just
think then what this poor woman had
to endure with a husband with perhaps
from 500 TO 1000 boils on him! Is il
any wonder that the woman en-
couraged her husband TO terminate his
existence? The only wonder is that
she didn't cut her own throat in des-
pair.
But these were not all the troubles
that Jobs wife had TO bear. Her hus-
bands friends came IN a visit to him
and took possession of the house
for six weeks at a time. Other women,
too, have had to endure the same
affection, and they can easily account
for Mrs. Jobs exhibition of bad tenn
per. 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 a thousand and
one a~nnoyances that a male visitor
gives the housekeeper.
1t is about time that somebody was
raising a voice in defense Of Jobs wife
and saying q 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 hus-
bands with boits on their bodies, but
they have husbands who go to the club,
of evenings. They have husbands
who are selfish enough TO devote all
their time TO business and pleasure
without considering that n portion of
that time of right belongsto the woman,
the charm Of whose existence is his
companionship. The Jobs wives of
to-day are the who are bur.
dened with the cares and sorrows Of
this life and who get no sympathy.
And their name is legion.-LddtcS'
H0ae Companion.