Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-10-24

your home, go back to your duty The
brightest flowers in all the earth are
those which grow in the garden of a
Christian household, clambering over
the porch of Christian home.
Theswffe Made Man.
1 advise you also to cultivate sympa-
thy of occupation. Sir James Mcintosh,
one of the most eminent and elegant
men that ever lived, while standing at
the very height of his eminence, said to
great company of scholars, "My wife
made me-. - The wife ought to be the
advising partner in every firm. She
ought to be interested in all the losses
and gains Of shop and store. She ought
to have a right-she has a right-to
know everything. If man goes into a
business transaction that he dare not
tell his wife of, you may depend that
he is on the way either to bankruptcy
or moral ruin. There may be some
things which he does not wish to trouble
his wife with, but if he dare not tell
her, he is on the road to discontinue.
On the other hand, the husband ought
to be sympathetic with the wife's occu-
patton. 1t is no easy thing to keep
house. Many woman who,could have
endured martyrdom as we'll as Marga
ret, the Scotch girl, has actually been
worn out by house management.
There are a thousand martyrs of the
kitchen. 1t is very annoying, after the
vexations of the day around the stove
or the register Or the table, Or in the
nursery or parlor, to have the husband
say: "You know nothing about trou-
BILE. You ought to be in the store half
an hour" Sympathy of occupation If
the husbands work cover him with the
SCOT of the furnace Or the odors of
leather or soap factories, let not the
wife be easily disguised at the begrimed
hands Or unsavory aroma. Your gains
are one, your interests are one, your
losses are one. Lay hold of the work of
life with both hands. Four hands to
fight the battles, four eyes to watch for
the danger, four shoulders on which to
carry the trials. It is very sad thing
when the painter has wife who does
not like pictures. 1t is a very sad thing
for pianist when she has q husband
who does not like music 1t is a very
sad thing when a wife is not suited I'M
less her husband has what is called q
"genteel business. " So far as l under
stand ''genteel business, it is some
thing to which a man goes at 10 O'Clock
in the morning and from which he
comes home at or o'clock in the
afternoon and gets large amount of
money for doing nothing. That is, be-
lieve, a ''genteel BUSINESS and there
has been many a wife who has made
10 cfoly Of boin cd
the husband has given up the tanning
Of the hides or the turning of the ban
listers, or the building Of the walls and
put himself in circles where he has
nothing to do but smoke cigars and
drink wine and get himself into habits
that upset him, going down in the
maelstrOm. taking his wife and children
with him. There are good many trains
running from earth to destruction.
They start all hours of the day and all
hours of the night. There are the
freight trains They go very slowly and
very heavily, and there are the accom-
mediation trains going on toward de-
and they stop very often and
let man get out when he wants to,
but genteel idleness is an express
train, satan is the stoker and death is
the engineer, and, though one may come
out in front of it and swing the red flag
of "danger" or the lantern of Gods
word, it makes just one shot into perdi-
ton, coming down the embankment
with a shout and a wall and a shrek
CRASH crash! There are two classes of
people sure of destruction-frst, those
who have nothing to do; secondly,
those who have something to, but who
are too lazy or too proud to do it.
Let Eros Reign.
I have one more word Of advice to
give to those who would have a happy
home, and that is let love preside in it.
When your behavior in the domestic
circle becomes mere matter of calcu-
lation, when the caress you give is
merely the result Of deliberate study of
the position you occupy, happiness lies
stark dead on the hearthstone. When |
the husbands position as head of the
household is maintained by loudness of |
voice, by strength of arm, by fire of |
temper, the republic of domestic bliss
has become a despotism that neither
God nor man will abide. Oh, We who |
promised to love each other at the altar,
how dare you commit perjury? Let no |
shadow Of suspicion come on your affec- |
ton. 1t is easier to kill that flower than |
it is to make it live again. The blast |
from hell that puts out that light leaves
you in the blackness of darkness for
ever.
Here are man and wife, They agree
in nothing else, but they agree they
will have home. They will have a
splendid house, and they think that if
they have a house they will have a
home. Architects make the plan, and
the mechanics execute it, the house to
cost 800, 900. 1t is done. The carpets
Are spread, lights are hoisted, curtains