Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1893-03-31
NEW VOL. 2S---NO. 20.
Somebody's Husband,

Very many OF the magazines and
newspapers nowadays are so clog
ged up with advice TO women that
expert readers learn 10 skip all such
paragraphs with the same agility de-
veloped in skipping the advertise
ments Of patent medicines. In taking
notice of the needs Of humanity, how
ever. have discovered one little plot
OF ground hitherto uncultivated by
the moral adviser. We hear enough
about the training that ought To be
given our girls so that they may be
prepared for wifehood aud mother
hood. | would like TO suggest TO
those having cnarge OF children that
they train up the boys for husband
hood aud fathsrhood.
have heard parents without mum
! ber talk over the future OF their boys as
doctors. lawyers aud merchants; but
! | have heard few devote much time
or thought TO the question OF what
kind OF husband or father their boy
would be likely to make.
Ii is certainly strange that there
are 80 many bad husbands when the
mother is supposed tn have the train
ing OF the children, at least during
the early and most impressive years
II il strange that women, who know
often 10y sad experience just how
many and great trials come to every
home circle. aud know also how the
patient forbearance and gentle, low
iug sympathy OF the head ot tho
household would tide over the difficult
~, should not teach .their sons, as
very first lesson, the principles OF
good husband.
Some people seem TO think that
good husbands, like blackberries
down South, grow Wild and "thout
any rsisiu';" but tell you it takes .
good deal Of 'raisIn" to bring up
husband in the way he should 60, and
too often the bloom aud sweetness
OF married lie 10 lost in the process.
Some people, again, consider that
all that is necessary 20 the making
Of u good husband il that he shall bs
! sober and industrious. But there are
good many little things besides
which 20 TO the making OF good
! husbs nd, and the women which gets
! hold OF bad one roou discovers this
! fact
! The greater part OF domestic un-
! happiness hinges on the small things
OF life This is not new thought by
any meaDs, but Il Is more common TO
suppose that these little things are
! the small omissions aud commissions
OF the wife. Women are advised not
to seod, not TO fret, not to sulk, not
to forget to put on clean collar in
! the morning, not to forget 10 bang
their hair, not TO forget the buttons,
and TO be sure that the coffee Is not
muddy; but how about the dos and
don'ts on the other sidel Wouldn't
il be just as well to say TO the hus-
band: Don't 40 home with your
brow all twisted in n Gordinn knot
aud your voice like raspine saw;
don't forget that woman, even
| though she be your wife, does not
want all unkempt sloven hanging
around the house at odd hours; don't
! forget that "a woman, even though
she be wife does not like to have
her ears polluted by language which
the dictates OF polite society forbid q
man TO the use la public; don't forget
that woman, even though she be n
wife, does not admire stinginess. glut-
| tony or vuigarity la the man whom
she has promised To honor aud obey
Too often men forget that the mere
assumption OF wifely duties does not
destroy n single womsnly trait.
Wifehood and motherhood develop
all that Ia sweet aud ~omanly; they
destroy nothing. How many white
souIed women do you suppose hide Ia
! their hearts the dead ideals which
they loved, while day by day the emp
ty semblancs OF those ideals mocks
their sightl
Ifagir needs TO 10 we'll trained
that she may nobly fIl6ll her duty as
somebody's wife some day, does not
"a boy need yet more to b" trained
aud disciplined that he may worthily
fulfill the responsible duties which
some day devolye on him as some
body's husbRndi