The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-11-12

till it be ebbing water. And then
mildly she argues the matter, not So
much to condemn him as to acuuit
herself. Surely men, contrary to iron.
are worse to he wrought upon when
they art hot, and are far more tract.
able in cold blood. 1t is an observa-
ton Of seamen, that, if single meteor
or fireball falls on their masts, it por--
tends i'll luck; but if two come to-
getler (Which they call Caster and
PolluNl they presage good success
but, sure, in a family it bodeth most.
bad when two tireballs husbands
and wife's anger come both together.
She keeps home, if she hath not
her husbands company or leave for
her patent to go abroad; for the house,
is the women's centre. 1t is written.
The sun riseth, man goeth forth unto
his work. and to his labor until the.
evening"; but it is said of woman,
Prov. Xxi. Is, She riseth while it.
is yet night" for man in the race of
his work starts from the rising of the,
sun, because his business is without
doors, and not to be done without the,
light of heaven; but the woman hath
her work within the house. and there
fore can make the sun rise by light
ing Of candle. .,..R.,
Her clothes are comely rather than
costly, and she makes plain cloth to
be velvet by her handsome wearing it.
She is none Of our dainty danes, who
love to appear in variety of suits every
day new,-as if a good gown, like a
stratagem in war. We're to be used but
once; but our good wife sets up a sail
according to the keel of her husbands
estate; and if Of high parentage, she
doth not SO remember What she was
by birth that she forgets what she is
by match.
Arcana imperii cher husbands Sc
crets) she will not divulge. Especial
ly she is careful to conceal his in
tirmities. If he be none of the wiseth.
she so orders it that he appears on
the public stage but seldom; and then
he hath conned his part so we'll, that
he comes off with great applause. If
his "forma informans'' be but bad,
she provides him better 'formas as
sistentes," gets him wise servants and
secretaries.
In her husbands absence, she is
wife and deputy husband, which
makes her double the files of her dill
gence. At his return he finds all
things SO we'll that he wonders to see
himself at home when he was abroad.
In her husbands sickness, she feels
more grief than she shows. Partly
that she may not dishearten him, and
partly because she is not at leisure
to seem so sorrowful that she may
be the more serviceable.
Her children, though many in num-
Der, are none in noise, steering them
with a look whittier she listeth. When
they grow up, she teacheth them not
pride, but painfulness, making their
hands to clothe their backs, and them
to wear the livery of their own in
dustry. She makes not her daughters:
gentlewomen before they be women.
rather teaching them that they should
pay to others than receive from them.
The heaviest work of her servants
she maketh light, by orderly and sea-
sonably enjoining it; wherefore her
service is counted a preferment, and
her teaching better than her wages.
Her maids follow the precedent of
their mistress, - live modestly at
home. One asked a grave gentlewo-
man how her maids came by so good
husbands, and yet seldom went
abroad: "Oh," said she, "good hus-
bands come home to them" t's