The Iuka vidette. (Iuka, Miss.) 1894-1912, 1894-08-09
THE MODEL WIFE.
Eam Jones Sententiously Gives
His Views About Her.
kome Requisite Quaiificaticns-A Chris
tiau Woman, Fearing God and Keep
Ing His Commandments Begins
Model Daughter.
lCCPYRICHT.1


our birth, the day of our death, are no
more important days and involve no
| more important events tsan the day of
our marriage.
have seen some people thought
made mistake by being born. Some
| have died through the mistake of doc
tors, but the biggest mistake man
ever made is when he makes mistake
in marrying.
| The fellow ordered a steak at res
taurant and when it came, after sew
| eral efforts to cut it, he said: "This is a
mis-stal1e." A mistake that is only felt
to the next meal, but the fellow who
makes mistake in marrying has made
one that will last through time and
| perhaps through all eternity.
1t has been said that God gives man
a good wife. That being true, / sup
pose the devil gives a man the other
sort. believe that it is owing to
lucky chance more than good manage
ment or wise selection that there are
not more unhappy marriages.
1t is said that "love is blind" | have
thought that, in some instances, it was
also deaf and dumb. A pretty face, n
jolly laugh, u bright eye, dazzling
jewelry, or rich daddy-one of these
has decided many fellow.
| was talking some time ago with
young preacher who had model wife.
He said he had two brothers who mar
ried much money with their wives. He
said he started out to hunt for just "a
gal" and got one who didn't have a
dollar, but who had more genuine,
noble, first-class ''gal' about her than
any one he ever saw. Many of the
things which attract some men when
in search of wife are but the bangs
and frills, which only serve to hide
many defects and cover many faults.
A model wife must have character
above everything else, character that
asserts itself, that controls ITSELF that
impresses and expresses itself at every
turn, showing itself in an intelligent
eye, in the kindliness of the heart, in
the decision of the will, in the gentle
ness of hand, in the grace of the move
ment. A pretty little wife may make
very pure wife, but with well-rounded
character woman will not fail in any
sphere. -.-. -
Intelligence and common sense are
other elements in model wife. The
biggest fool in the world is the man or
woman who will marry fool. There
is no remedy for that disease. lunch
backs, deformed limbs, red hair, stringy
necks and snaggled teeth and all other
deformities of life may be mitigated,
hnl1ln1 ay- on. Int fnn1ic1nocoi
man can cure, and it will manifest It.
self in all of its homogeneous shapes in
the children to the third and fourth
generation.
Refinement is another element in Che
model wife. Let a a man be coarse if
he will, but from u coarse woman, in
the language of the Episcopal prayer
book, Good Lord deliver u.s."
A fast woman is more despicable
than a slow horse. Speed may be de-
sirable in horse, but give us slow
gait for a noble woman.
OF course, above everything else, the
heart is to the noble wife what the sun
is to the heavens, or the moon is to the
tide. 1t is the great warning, light
ing, potent force, which makes mans
home beautiful and lovely. Such
heart pours its sympathy through
every avenue of strong mind like the
gush of river and will make wom-
an queen as wife and thing OF
joy and beauty forever.
A model wife is also woman in
whom selfishness does not live. She
gives herself to husband, to children
and to home, and looks upon each child
committed TO that home as an angel
sent from God, with blessings in both
hands and joy in both eyes, and peace
in its every prattle.
would as soon shake hands with
dead fish's tail, or keep company
with the dead, as to marry a woman
who despised children, but who was
foolishly fond of poodle dogs, parrots
and canary birds
I was on train some time ago and
saw mother sitting nursing poodle
dog, while two bright, sweet children,
two and four years old, perhaps, were
sitting on a seat in front of the mother
in charge of a nurse. The mother fon.
died the dog and the nurse fondled the
children. | studied the picture. |
couldn't account for the womans
neglect of the children and devotion to
the dog on any other hypothesis than
that it was an over-weaning love for
her husbands kinfollxs.
John Wesley's mother was model
wife, consecrated to her home, conse-
Grated to her husband and to her nine
teen children. More than any woman
almost since Mary, the mother of the
Christ, has Mrs. Wesley blessed this
world.
There are wives who would be moth
ers; not these do | mean, but 7 speak
of that home where children are looked
on as a curse and their presence nui-
sance.
A model wife is woman with intew-
city. She would die before she would
deceive him whom she loves. Her
word is as sacred as her soul. There is
an utter absence Of Implicitly and de-
ception. rec 1aasr sees
A model wife is Christian wife, for
Christianity has given to the world the
women who deserve to live in history
and those who will live in Heaven. 1t