The advocate., 1895-07-03


neOktiS broke, or the tired iEoner made
Q blister In Che shirt front, or the collar
button was too small, or the dEeSsmsksE
left slight wrinkle in the dress, and
the potatoes boil dry, and sugar is
lumpy, when L'm In a hurry, and the
bread isn't Rs good "a neighbor Jons-
thSn'S wife makes.
And now let m 0 tell you another truth.
DO not thank the Almighty Father for
his continued blesSings, with the plea
Gor more and more, and then find fault
with all these little inconvenience; it's
hypocrisy, and is not home.making fOE
this world or eternity. With some
people even the trees Of the forest seem
never to grow in their proper place.
/ know q man who makes his wife very
unhappy because he discovered the doors
to the old kitchen were not altogether
too clean around the knobs. The secret
was, not that she had been an untidy
housskseper, but had assisted her hus-
band with out door work, and he, poor
soul, couldn't see why she was slack,
And SO it is in too many homes. Oh, il
we only could mix q little more of the
cream OF human kindness with the
words we utter. It does seem that il we
fully realize how many heartRches and
Eesrs are the result Of unkind criticism,
we certainly would forbear. And to
wives, would say: Are your husbands
not all you expected them to beP Re-
member, they may not have found you
az angelic as they supposed. No use
making everyone miserable about you
because your wishes are not all the
game as others. Wemust accustom our
selves to things We cannot rems dy.
It's very good rule in all things in life,
When Judging friend or brother,
Not to look at the question alone on one side
But always turn to the other.
We are apt TO be selfish In all our views,
In this jOstling headlong race,
And 80 to be right ere you censure man,
Just put yourself In his place.
Jane and Susan, Isaac and Paul,
II God In his wisdom created them all,
Then why this endless "grumbls, grum-
BILE, groWl," that is making desolste 30
many wsll-kept houses? We will sup
pose that Jane has some one particular
talent, which, IL she uses, may become q
source Of great good to humanity, while
her husband, IaaRc's, particular calling
for the good Of the world is entirely DIFF
6srent, would it not be very foolish in
Jane to tell Isaac he would amount to
more IL he only knew enough to do that
which she is fully capable Of doingG And
on the other hand you are saying ii is
just a. absurd for Iasscs to suppose
that you could I'LL his position in life.
Yet am convinced again that in far too
many Of our homes this very wrong is
being done, making to drift apart the
most sacred relationships, dwArfinG some
| Of the brightest minds, and sending on
the road to ruin children for whose very
existence they are responsible, when
with a little kindly encouragement, all
these mistakes could have been svoide d
Now, these same James and Issscs ol
the world sometimes make life drsBry
over the "Maud Muller" theory OF what
might have been. There is another
poem that it would be we'll to consider,
It is something like this:
When the poet sang in his silver tongue,
OF fanclful sorrow fleeting.
Had he never word for the Joys divine
That are ever our Joys completing?
IL rninhk hnua haan Nrnraa Than kha Rnnn Wa