Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-12-30

neu QudlllS WnlCn makes her look
at her completed work with the eX-
hilerating belief that few could excel
it, here has full play. Here she can
be original, ingenious, surprising,
and all this to the fultilment of the
chief end of her hopes and the eX-
preston of her highest desire.
TO the woman who would endear
herself to her husband, | would offer
to guarantee that if she can keep
within the limit of his means and
yet make for him q lovely, comfort
able, appropriate biding place, in
which he has room for the develop
ment of his own tastes, and opportu-
nifty to bring him his friends in hos
pltable fashion, she will have en-.
deared herself ineXpressedly to him
and increased his pride in her ten
fold. Let the good order and beauty
and COntrivances for his individual
comfort be sufficient to make his
trieDdS enviouS and ready to say that
his home tempt5 them to marry, and
the wife becomes lovely in his eyes,
in far more flattering way than be-
cause she is pretty and we'll dressed :.
10 become the source of a husbands 8
comfort and rest is to have placed
yourself beyond the fear of losing
your complexion or ceasing to be his
ideal OF a pretty girl. 1t is also to
rise from the position of dear pet
to useful, important partner, with.
out whose clever brains and wise di-
rections his life would cease to be a
success.
In ~ Nf 1ni Lnt
Is easy work, nor for moment at.
tempt to say that the fine art of good
housekeeping is easily attained but
L do say, with all the strength | can
put into the assertion, that the mar
ried woman who sets aside her king.
dom for lack of courage and energy
to rule it, is but disinherited prin-
cess who lost the greatest JOY of life
| whom she abdicated her throne.
The place m6n lives in should
surely be the place wherein sorrow
| and illness and death can best be
borne and suffered. To the very
young these three pregnant words
means little but when they make
themselves heard, may they find
the sacrednesS and privacy Of home
ABOUT you, and the tender surround
ings of your own family life sooth-
ing your pain. To be happy i'm or
to grieve in, there can Le no place
like the shelter which love and care
have made for man and his wife
to abide in, together with the children
God has given them to sweeten and
hallow their inseparable lives.
WHAT HORSES WOULD SAY IF
THEY COULD TALK.-Don't hitch
me to an iron post or railing when
the mercury is below freezing. I
need the skin on my tongue.
Don't leave me hitched in my stall
at night with big cob right where
L must lie down. am tied and
can't select Il smooth place.
DON'T compel me 20 eat more salt
than l want by mixing it with my
oats. L know better than any ami
NAL how much | need.
Don't think because | go freely I'M
der the whip | don't get tired. You
would move up, too, if under the
whip.
Don't think because | am a horse
that ironweeds and briers don't hurt
my hay.
Don't whip me when l get fright
ened along the road, or l will expect
1t next time and may make trouble.
Don't trot me up hill, for / have
to carry you and the buggy and my
self, too. Try it yourself some time.
Run up hill with a big load.
Don't keep my stable very dark,
for Uhnn / NJ IN hn l;,,L
eyes are injured.
Don't say Whoa' unless you
mean it. Teach me stop at the word.
1t may check me and save a runa-
way and smashup, if the lines break.
DON'T forget to file my teeth where
they get Jagged and l cannot chew
my food. When / get lean it is a
sign my teeth want filing.
Don't ask me to "back" with
blinds on. / am afraid to.
Don't run me down a steep hill,
for If anything should give way l
might break your neck.
Don't put on my blind bride so
that 1T irritates my eyes, or so leave
my forelock that it will be in my
eyes.
Don't be so careless of my harness
as to find great sore on me before
you attend to it.
Don't lend me to some blockhead
that has less sense than | have.
Don't forget the old saying: "A
merciful man is merciful to his
beast.
A FORTNIGHT's SICK LEAVE.-
"Sore throat, eh ?" said the surgeon
to a member of a military band,
according to the Chicago Ne,cs.
"Let me see. Oh, that's not so very
bad. A slight nothing