Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1896-04-09
Col. Robert &. IngersOIl on Domestic
Life.

THE GREAT ORATOR PLEADS ELO-
QOENThf FOR THE LAW OF
LOVE IN THE HOUSEHOLD
HOW TO TREAT A WIFE
How TO REAR
CHILDREN.
believe that marriage is a per-
feet partnership that woman has
every right that man has-and one
more-the right to be protected
Above all men in the world | hate a
stlngy mana man that will make
his wife beg for money. "What
did you do with the dollar | gave
you last week ?" And what are
you going to do with this?" 1t is
vile. No gentleman will ever be
satisfied with the love Of a beggar
and slave-no gentleman will ever
be satisfiad except with the love of
an equal. What kind of children
does a man expect to have with a
beggar for their mother? A man
can not be so poor but that he can
be generous, and if you only have
one dollar in the world and you have
got to spend it, spend it like lord
spend 1t as though it were dry leaf
and you the owner of unbounded
forests-spend it as though you had
a wilderness of your own. That's
the way to spend it.
l would rather be a beggar and
spend my last dollar like king than
be king and spend my money like
a beggar. IT it has got to go let il
90. And this my is advice to the poor.
For you can never be so poor that
whatever you do you can't do in a
grand and manly way. | hate a
cross man. What right has a man
to assassinate the joy of life? When
you go home you ought to go like a
ray of ligbt-so that it will even in
the night burst out of the doors and
| illuminate the darkness. Some men
think their mighty brains have been
in turmoil; they have been think
ing about who will be Alderman
from the Fifth Ward; they have
been thinking about politics, great
and mighty questions have been en-
gaging their minds, they have bought
calico at five or six cents, and want
to sell it for seven. Think of the
been upon that man, and when he
gets home everybody else in the
house must look out for his comfort.
A woman who has only taken care
of five or six children, and one or
two of them sick, has been nursing
and singing to them, and trying to
make one yard of cloth do the work
of two, she, of course, is fresh and
fine and ready to wait upon this gen.
tleman-the head of the family
the boss
was reading the other day Of an
apparatus invented for the ejectment
OF gentlemen who subSist upon free
lunches. 1t is so arranged that when
the fellow gets both hands into the
victuals, large hand descends upon
him, jams his hat over his eyes-he
is seized, turned toward the door,
and just in the nick of time an i'm
mense boot comes from the other
side, kicks him into italics, sends |
him out over the sidewalk and lands |
him rolling in the gutter. 1 never
hear of such a mana boss-that |
don't feel as though that machine
ought to be brought into requisition
for his benefit.
Love is the only thing that will
pay ten percent of interest in the
outlay. Love is the only thing in
which the height of extravaganza is
the last degree of economy. 1t is
the only thing, 1 tell you. Joy is
wealth. Love is the legal tender of
the soul-and you need not he rich
to be happy. We have all been
raised on success in this country
Always been talked with about be-
ing successful, and have never
thought ourselves very rich unless
we were the possessors of some mag
nificent mansion, and unless our
names have been between the putrid
lips of rumor we could not be happy.
Every little boy is striving to be this
and be that. / tell you the happy
man is the successful man. The
man that has won the love of one
good woman is successful man.
The man that has been the emperor
of one good heart, and that heart
embraced all his, has been a success.
If another has been the emperor of
the round world and has never loved
or been loved, his life is failure
1t won't do. Let us teach our chill
dren the other way, that the happy
man is the successful man, and he
who is the happy man is the one
who always tries to make some one
else happy,
The man who marries a woman to
make her happy; that marries her
as much for her own sake as for his
own; not the man that thinks
his wife is his. property, who thinks
that the title to her belongs to him
that the woman is the property of
the man wretches who get mad at
their wives and then shoot them
down in the street because they
think the woman is their property.
tell you isn't necessary to be rich
and great and powerful to he happy.
a little while ago l stood by the
grave OF old NapoleOn-a magnifi-
cent tomb of gilt and gold, fit almost
for a dead deity-and gaZed upon
the sarcophagus of black Egyptian
marble, where rest at last the ashes
of this restless man. / leaned over
the balustrade and thought about the
career of the greatest soldier of the
modern world. saw him walking
upon the banks of the Seine, con-
templating suicide-I saw him at
Toulon-I saw him putting down
the mob in the streets of Paris-I
saw him at the head of the army of
Italy-I saw him crossing the bridge
of Lodi with the tri-color in his
| hand--I saw him in Egypt in the