The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-25

holds in check. In fact, she is happy when
her husband confers with her and hap
piest when her advice proves successful.
Take it all in all, and bankers wife is q
good deal OF banker herself, and why
should she not think the advantages far
surpass the disadvantages Z"
THE MINISTRIES WIFE.
Mrs. Parkhurst, wife of the New York
preacher whose queer ideas of social re-
form have made him famous, says:
"There can be no disadvantages where
the wife is heart and soul in the endeavors
of her husband. believe no woman can
find better occupation than that of aid
ing clergyman husband in his work of
inspiring him to fresh endeavor and of al
ways asking to share in the burdens, come
they where or how they will.
II believe that q clergyman's wife
should aid him constantly with advice
and give him constant encouragement if
she sees him engaged in any great work.
There are no disadvantages in the mar
ried life of clergyman who is heart and
soul in his calling and whose home life is
happy. The disadvantages come altogether
from the woman who would shine in soci-
ETY., for that is not a clergyman's function,
and naturally she has few opportunities of
this character. They come from the heart
OF the wife who has other desires. They
90 not exist where the work of the wife is
to aid the husband-by encouragement, by
advice, by self-abnegation.
II believe absolutely in the correctness
OF my husbands views. l help him in his
congregation work, and really feel that
there can be no disadvantage in q clergy
mans calling, at least to the eyes of the
wife who believes in and who adds inspira-
ton to the husbands great work"
THE LAWYERS WIFE.
Mrs. Clark Bell says:
II know of no profession in which the
advantages are SO evenly counterbalanced
by the disadvantages. When a lawyer has
great case he becomes absorbed in it. 1t
occupies his thoughts day and night to
the exclusion of everything and everybody
else. In other words, his time is his
clients, and in no profession is there
greater care taken of the interests intrust-
ed to the practitioner. speak from expe-
rience. For instance. when my husband
is devoting his time to the great cases in
trusted to him, it is day and night study.
1t is looking up references all the time
His mind is completely wrapped up
in his work. That is the disadvantage Of
having lawyer for husband. But, then,
there is always an intense satisfaction in
winning great case, and that is when the
family comes in for its share of the happi-
ness. / imagine all lawyers bring the Joy
that comes with successes right into their
homes. But when they lose great cases
Perhaps had better drop the subject right
there. Still my husband is in love with his
profession, am in love with my husband.
and. logically. must be in love with the
profession. That is my woman's logic, of
course"
THE ACTORS WIFE
Mrs Smart Rohson saws.
Disadvantages! Do you know Mr..
Robsonf Well, you know there really are
no disadvantages to q good husband,
whether his profession be that of an actor.
author, lawyer or anything else. The dis
advantages always came with disagree
ments. OF course there are disagree
able things connected with an actors life,
particularly with one who il COM
PEELED to travel q great deal, and most
of them are. But then it is q wife's
duty to be with her husband under agree
able and under disagreeable circumstances.
To the wife who Is compelled to be away
from her husband the disadvantages are
numerous. But on the whole there are a.
many happy ''stage" marriages as there
are unhappy. 1t is like marriages in all
other callings. except that the unhappi-
ness of an actors home life seems to be
public property. That is great disad-
vantage"
THE PHYSICIANS WIFE.
DR.. Jenkins, health officer of the port of
New York, got his place because he
married the sister Of Dick Croker, the no.
torious Tammany boss. Mrs. jenkins
says:
"Just at present i imagine the dis
advantages far surpass the advantages.
In fact, have had SO little occasion to
see DR.. Jenkins of late that I have but
little love for physicians life; that is,
during . cholera epidemic. But must
admit that that is period which would
hardly be admitted into the argument.
So will not consider it. An active ply
stefan needs some one about him to regu-
late him, SO to speak. l find that his
greatest disadvantage is his extreme read
mess to answer the calls of even the
mildly sick at all hours of the day and
health of others. Otherwise the physician
makes o good husband, and / would adj
wise young ladies to set their caps for
them"
THE MUSICIANS WIFE.
Mrs. Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore SAYS:
"Well, don't you think that where there
is so very much harmony there can be but
few disadvantages? Still there are some,
and that is particularly the case where a
husband is as devoted to his chosen work
as is mine. The public is after him. In
other words, he seems to belong more to
the people than to us. Mr.. Gilmore and
his ideas are, I admit. popular, but the
wife OF an orchestra leader must naturally
suffer by very reason of the popularity.
He becomes too engrossed in his work.
Still, on the whole. if my advice is to be
followed, can only urge young ladies to
try and find a husband like Mr. Gilmore
He is as full of harmony in the household
as on the stage"
Figures Coming Home to Roost.