Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1906-06-21
UNCLE GID,S LETTER.

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world is in the Christian home. Men
and women are constantly seeking
pleasure and happiness and a place
where they can have good time.
Some seek it in travel; others seek 1t
in the bali room; another at the opera
and theater, and great many in the
dram shops and gambling rooms Men
and women are continually on the qui |
vive for happiness, the rich and the
poor, but how few comparatively ind
it. They are following in the foot
steps of the prodigal boy, going away
from home to find something that will
make them happy going away from
happiness to find happiness. The wise
man said a good man shall satisfy
himself from himself. How true that
| is!
Home is the place where real, true
happiness is to be found, a home
where the father points his sons to
scenes of honorable ambition and
where mother kisses away the pain OF
an aching head. There could be no
happy christian home without mother.
No living man can make a happy
home. He may provide. but mother,
the wife-God bless her-has the skill
and the ingenuity to make home par
idise and if let alone, rarely ever fails.
but some men, | am sorry to say.
won't let wife have her way in the
home. They destroy the happiness
that might come to it by their auto
cratic and dictatorial conduct. They
act toward her as though they thought
she was fool. Well, before | mar
ried didn't think I was going to mar
nv fool, and don't think did and
you will pardon me for saying 1t, I've
never regretted my choice and II there
are any regrets it must be with the
wife. NY home, friends, has been a
happy home, even if it has been poor
mans home. Wife and have each
tended to our own business. What
she does suits me, but | won't say
what do suits her every time, but
we don't fuss-never did-and the
truth is more often find her in the
right than in the wrong and it always
has been so. Well did the wise mar
say "a good woman is from the Lord
and her price is far above rubies. My
experience and observation Is that {
good woman can make happy home
and will do so if the husband will lie
her. In nine cases in every ten TIN
husband is more to blame for an un
happy home than the wife. I've seel
them weep over the conduct OF tnel
husbands. | have seen children tina
were afraid to see papa coming 10
fear he is drunk or in an i'll humor
Some men get mad when away iron
home and then go home and take thel
spite out on wife and children. Poo
wife, poor children British man, un
worthy of the name, destroying tn
neace of home, disheartening the wife
e raising the children in almost he'll
I could point out just such nome
mother powerless to do anything, ne
q life misery; but | thank God "
have some happy christian homes
where father is warm-hearted, genla
'd tender and loving to wife almost as
y child, paying her the highest trlDu'
% he can pay her, calling her Mother
Such husband never thwarts I'll
st wife in making home beautiful. r
has confidence in her and she III hin
y and the very atmosphere of that hon
- is fragrant with love and the chlldrt
"a revel in the sweet breeZes of parent
lie affection. From such a home q
90 church and country is blessed with Il
~ highest type of manhood and woma
hood.
at Man ought to concede to woman &
RIGHT TO exercise her wifely instinct
I'M free and unfettered. for unto her u
e. has given beauty and a desire to 10
- the beautiful She is his superior
nv refinement and in morals, and by Il
lis love she keeps the home the cent
Y. place where the children will come
see mother. A christian mother e
we Yates and inspires her children and
ID. win the hayward boy back to hon
and his mother God. All women,
'ur piven chance and encouraged, W
make home a delightful place, tn
7io tact and fine sense of neatness a
At beauty qualities them for the dut
,cy of the household, and as church wo
e ers they are of the highest type a
have in all ages, been compliment
my for their fidelity and integrity of G
And their influence among men
not waning in the least, though II
has denied them rights and prlvile
that he himself would not surrend
Once there was time when she
'i'N considered the inferior of man i'll
90 Iectually, but it is now conceded
IA is not. She certainly has more
in her heart than man has, and
''' has endowed her with traits man {
iii not possess OF even initiate. TIL
'oei fore she is often called the better
'e9' of man with every qualification ca
iAl' lated to inspire. / believe she sh'
be free to exercise her judgement
regulating the home. As an ally
the church she has been heroic ex