The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-08-06

[ used to get you. You adapted
your wants 10 our misfortunos.
Why, forty years ago I would not
have let you go about in that grizzly
gray muslin. had contempt fol
cheap things, especially for you:
didn't I, my DEAR g.
"You certainly did," she said with
kind of snd, rcminiscent smile in
her tone of voice, "but this muslin is
good enough now. But you had
better 60 to town. There arc four
little grandchildren here to dinner,
and Aunt Ann wants tho rico right
away"
"And wants it right away" I hum
med tothe tune Of "Auld Lang Syne."
Somehow can't get that refrain out
Of my mind-"And wants it right
away"
Sometimes I think that men don't
understand nor appreciate woman's
nature. She was created with love
for the beautiful, for ornament, for
flowers and gems and jewels and
gold and silverware and damask
and fine linen. Sho can't holp her
nature, and this very nature proves
that sho is nearer heaven than we
are. What do I care for diumondsY ?
Not cent. I wouldn't give dollar
for bushel Of thcm. An old fash,
loned tin waiter with flowers painted
on it is good as u silver ono TO INC.
l wouldn't wash tho window glass
more than onco Il year, and wash
pan suits mo as we'll as china ba-
sin. But / recognize tho fact that
am man with III unrcfined nature.
Tho twelve gates of the new Jcrusn-
lem that are made Of precious stones
arc no attraction to me; neither are
the gold-paved streets that ST. John
SOW in his vision. But still ! have
hopo Of getting there and becoming
moro refined, for I do love Flowers
and protty birds and orange trcos ana
luscious fruits and beautiful scenery
and mountains and tho great waters
Of tho mighty sea, My wife and
my daughters can spend half day
in looking at the beautiful things in
tho show windows in Atlanta, but
[ mover stop to gazo or to admire,
except, perhaps, to look at the pho,
tographer's display or tho life. like
models Of lovely women that seem
smiling at my throo score and ten
Reading and observation teach me
that all good men havo reverence for
womankind and aro conscious of her
better nature, her tottor morals and
emotions. Shakespeare and Scott
write Of women rs ministering
angels. Wadsworth says of her
creation:
"a perfect woman nobly planned,
70 warn, to comfort and command" "
No great poet savo"such a rake as
Byron would have written:
GAS we'll believe woman, or an
epitaph,
Or any other thing that's false"
Even Solomon in all his glory with
his wives and concubinos, said:
"Young man, rejoice with the wife
Of thy youth, and be thou alway s.
ravishcd with her love-"
Edward w. Box says in The La
dies Home Journal. "No economy is
80 false and misgu. led as that which
seeks to withhold one pleasure from
the life Of n good woman, true
wife or loving mother. The best
homo man can give her becomes
tircsome if sho is asked to live in it
305 days in u year. The Lord knows
that woman's life is hard enough.
She travels q path of endurance and
suffering to which the average man
is an entire stranger. Then let us
mako the path as pleasant, as oasy
and as bright as possible. Every
dollar that man spends on his
homo for tho happiness and comfort
Of his wife will como lack to him
four fold"
That is true---all trne. Better
mend the broken pane Or that sash
cord or that gate latch and some
times take an hour off from business
and take her to ride. Tho Odd Eel