Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-05-16


Violet.
May Heaven send it to you some
day" said Mrs. Ingram. THAT IS
the grandest love OF all-not the
love that idealizes and believes the
object beloved to be perfect-that
kind of love always ends in disap-
, pointment-but the grand, generous
love that is not lessened by faults.
My husband had faults; loved him in
spite of them. l had faults, and he
loved me in spite of them. We both
knew that we were ordinary human
beings, and we made allowance for
each other The result was, we never
had one angry word. We have been
married thirty years, and we have
never had a quarrel my husband
said when he lay dying; nor should
we have had one had we lived to-
gether fifty more"
This differs from Aunt Alice's
teaching" thought Violet, "and it
differs greatly from my practice"
81 thought" she said, slowly, that,
just as there are always sharpest
thorns beneath sweetest roses, so the
longest thorns are hidden under the
orange-blossoms."
THAT may be; but it is in the
power of every sensible wife to blunt
them; they need never wound. Re-
member that when you wear orange
blossoms of your own"
Eyes, shall think of you as wife
who had not one thorn in her wreath
of orange-blossoms," said Violet.
Say, rather, a wife, my dear, who
bent and broke the point of every
thorn she found" rejoined Mrs. In
gram.
Violet had plenty of food for medi-
tation as they drove bone.
Chapter XIV.
Up to this time Violet had believed
herself to be perfectly in the right,
that the conduct of her husband and
his mother had been utterly unjustif-
able, that she had been injured and
wrongcd, and that in throwing off
her allegiance to her husband and
trying herself to break her bonds, she
had acted bravely and nobly. But
the hour spent in the churchyard
rather changed her ideas. Love was
not matter of caprice, nor marriage
d matter of whim; it was the most
solemn of obligations. Certainly no
woman could do as she had tried to
do-break her own bonds.
She began to doubt herself-she
who had been so confident in her
might and right. What if she had
done wrong, after all?
| She could not forget Randolph.
The handsome face, the kindly voice,
the love-light in his eyes, his constant
care for her, his devotion to her, and
| his mad passionate love for her,
haunted her as they had never done
before. She had hardened her heart
against him; she had exaggerated her
own wrongs; but she could not
deaden her memory.
In those days Violet was a study
She was sure of no one feeling or
emotion; her brain, mind. and soul
were in confusion. Love, revenge,
tender memories of bygone days,
hatred of all that her husband loved,
took possession of her by turns; she
could not tell whether she loved Ran
dolph or hated him. whether she
wished most to keep away from him,
or longed most to see him again.
She tried to understand herself, and
could not. Was it love of him that
kept her awake at night, thinking OF
him and going over in fancy every
hour they had spent together? Was
il love that kept the sound of his
voice ever in her ears? Was it love
or hate? She could not tell; she
did not know.
II cannot understand my own
heart" she said to herself: much
less could any one understand it,"
One morning-she had dreamed of
Randolph all night-Mrs. Ingram
asked her why she looked so thought
full
Il have been trying" answered
Violet, ito solve problem for myself,
and | cannot do it. was wondering
in any circumstances whatever a wife
fought to leave her husband"
! Certainly not" was the stern
reply. mo matter whether she be in
the right or in the wrong, the world
shows its estimate of such women by
ignoring them"
But suppose that a man Is cruel to
his wife, ill-uses her. abuses her
what them"
Il should say that a woman in fear
of her life might be justified in leav-
ing her husband; but even in that
case do not quite approve of it.
think this, that. let a man be bad as
he may, his wife should have patience
with him, and try to make him
better"
"You would think very badly. then,
of any wife who left her husband for
a smaller matter than ill-usage?"
Il should despise any women who
thought lightly or acted carelessly
with regard to the greatest obliga-
ton and the most sacred tie life
holds. Women have so much in their
power; they have two great weapons,
patience and forbearance."