The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-12-06
SAM JONES LETTER. q,
"riits About Wives in General. HIS
own in Particular.

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"rifts About Wives in General. Ills
own in Particular. --
10 say that woman is q wife, one |
may or may not rneaD much by that,
put when n man says that woman is my
wife, he means everything. a mans !
VIE is mighty near his everlasting all. |
God's best gift to little boy is good |
mother; Gods grandes, gift to grown
man is good wife. a good wife is an
heipmcet; sorry wife is Il hinder meet.
If good wife is n blessing then sssry
wife is curse. The average Young
man imagncs that all be wants Is al
wife; and he Knows as little about he
qualities prerequisite to good wife
as n hog knows about Latin He waniss!
a wife aud nothing else, and when he
gets her he finds all he has is wife and
that he needs everything else.
took dinner with nyoung preachcro
once; it was n charming dinner; he had
charming home because he had
charming wife. When walked nw5S
from his home with him, said to hiin:
MY young friend. you have jewel
for wife" He said know that, and,
got her on purpose. He said two Of
my older brothers married for money;
they got good deal of money, but
mighty little "gal." When started
out hunting me wife. said to myself
am not hunting fortune in mopey;r
l am just hunting pure gal JFot
what was hunting for. got no money.
but got wife worth millions to ne.
A man gets what he hunts for when
he goes wifc-hunting. There are Sonic
essentials which woman must have
II she would make good wife. First,
sincerity. want of sincerity will un-
dcrmine the character of any woman.
Sincerity is the basis of all good char
acter. A man whose wife has this ess-
sential has the foundation on which
she can build all other noble traits, for
with sincerity we have integrity;
woman who will not deceive; a woman
who is not n cheat or fraud in any
thing from bangs to shoes.
Then thcremustbe the element offrm-
ness. A little, tickle, unstable woman
has wrecked many men and ruined
many homes. ! admire a woman who
decides and takes stand and no power
can move her Unhinchingly she
stands by her convictions and her sense
of right and wrong. She cannot be
dragged or persuaded to go to- those
places or to any place against her sense
of right. -
A good wife must be an industrious
woman. From n lazy woman, in the
language of the Episcopal prayer
book. Good Lord deliver u.s." Indus
try can always find work to do and u
home will soon tell whether wife he
an industrious woman or not a good
wife is woman who does not have to
cultivate a love for her home; it
| is born in her; she does not have to
cultivate it; it grows with her groWth
and strengthens with her strength. IN
all this world there is no place to her
| like her home. A good wife not onIv
! loves home, but loves children. The
wife who looks upon children MS null
sance and cradles and baby carriages
as useless appendices is either barren
by nature or unfit for the name of wife.
| Canary birds and noodle dogs can never
| take the place OF children with a worthy
wife
, She is companion TO her husband
and a queen reigning over her children
| She not only bears an Of these ear
marks of true character, but she has
also an intellectual nature; mind Gull
tured and clear. not perhaps along the
| line of "The Dclineator" or the latest
plates of Some Partisan millinery store,
though she dresses neatly and
comely. She has read up on the
things that will help her TO he
n good wife and good mother.
| She knows more about moral philos-
ophy than she does about theosophy.
She has studied her Bible more than she
| has roamcd in the realms of occnltism.
She has discerning mind; she knows
what will help her children to be good
and she knows what will help them 10
be bad. She knows where 10 30 with
her husbnnd and she knows whece her
husband ought not to 20, and he doesn't
go.
A man is the architect of his own for
tune until he marrics; then the wife be-
comes the architect and he simply the
! master builder working under the plans
and specifications of the architect. a
good wife becomes wings to her hus-
band with which he may fly. The other
sort of wife is u weight pulling him
down.
Very few men have ever risen above
the attitudes on which their wives
walked and lived. Very few men have
arisen in This world, or any other world,
with wives pulling them down. a..
There is no excuse for any man FAIL
ing in life or business when he has the
rl-ht sort Of wife at lis homo. 4
woman worthy of the name Of wife
ought TO know how 10 choose husband,
She ought not to choose fool or II Tas-
cal. As fnthcrs and mothers we FREE
auen,ly ovcrestimWe our daughters.
We never know exactly what our daligh'
ter's worth is until she stands beside the
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