The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1891-01-28
THE TRUE HOME.


Make 1t a Reality.
How much is heard of strife and mis-
rule! Men and women wasting precious
gifts, growing hard and wicked, slaves
to the basest passions, going down to
death, or worse than death with no
hand stretched out to save, and all this
for the lack of true home! The roots
of all pure love, of piety and honor,
must spring from this home First, above
all other honors. in woman's ambition,
should be to found such shelter, where
she may reign it's queen. No honor can
be higher than to know she has built
such home; no dignity greater than to
know she can be recognized as its hon
ored, undisputed mistress. To preside
there with such skill that husband and
children will rise up and call her
blessed, is nobler than to rule an en-
pire.
But husband and wife, father and
mother must not be divided. 1t must
be united kingdom. While the wife
| and mother finds her duties chiefly in
the home, and the husband and father
finds his chiefly among the busy work.
ers outside yet on both sides all should
tend toward the common center-he
largely producing the means by which
she can succeed in making home most
restful and attractive, and be herself
supremacy blessed through his loving
appreciation of her efforts.
No doubt man often abuses his power,
bringing sorrow to her who, trusting
and loving him, should be the sole mis-
tress of his heart, the equal partner in
all he possesses, in his joys as well as
in his sorrows. But however true this
may be is it not equally true that there
are cases where 1.-THE woman Thou
gavest me-" has also abused the power
with which marriage endowed her, de-
stroying the peace of home and making
shipwreck of all that her husband held
most precious.
The law has not secured to the wife
such independence as will guard her
against injustice and abuse from the
hands of her husband. But what de-
tense has it provided to shield the hus-
band from the bitter sorrow which a
bad wife can bring to him?
1t is well that this matter has, of late,
been so widely agitatated. 1t may tend
to establish the rights of both man and
woman on firmer foundation; but if,
before this is fully settled, an estimate
should be made of the wrongs which
each may bring upon the other, we fear
it would prove nearly equal.
All! if both would remember that
with them, as in all associations, "Unior
is Strength; that united they stand, di
vided they must fall; that together they
should walk through life, together share
the joys, together bear the burdens anG
crosses, what happy world this woult
be! As united kingdom the wife &C
cepts her share of the rough, as well a.
the smooth. Under her part of the ad
ministration must come the vexation O.
spirit so common through the inefficient
servants of the present day-and this il
not, by any means, small burden
and all the other hindrances which S,
constantly arise to retard her efforts il
securing the perfection of the home sh,
is trying to build.
But "a good wife, seeing and KNOWN,
what these trials are, will not give then
such prominence as to disturb the peac
: of home. The knowledge of the pur
! and holy elements that must lie at tn
foundation of home, will enable her t
: forget, or put out of sight such trials
and the peace and joy which, through
, her unselfishness, she can bring to he
: husband and family, she will find al
: abundant reward.
Meanwhile, the husband accepts hi
, portion of care in this united kingdom
Are they usually any lighter. less pei
picking than the wife's?
Look at them! The toll and strife
the battling with the great world Out
: side-in whatever capacity his talent
or duties may call him by which he ca
provide necessities, luxuries, or homo
! for the dear ones he seeks to shelter i
the sacred precincts of home.
We have seen much of life and in a
, most all Of its wonderfully changin
aspects, and are convinced that the JOY
, ard the sorrows. the crosses and tn
, crowns in married life are about equal
, divided between the husband and tn
: ! wife. We are confident that notnin
will right all the wrongs and brin
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