The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-11-29
REFORMING A HUSBAND.
(By |. ID. Claire.)


marrying a man to reform him, and
while ] would not encourage a prac-
/ tice that is usually doomed to failure,
an incident came under my personal
! observation that has worked well, at
least for a season. Two years ago
/ met, in Louisville, lady of liberal
education, worldwide travel and fin
ished culture. Her father, then
dead, was, in his lifetime, one of the
most prominent citizens of Louisville.
The young lady was Christian
Scientist, a peculiar sect, whose
chief tenent is that habitually pure
high thought makes one healthy in
both body and soul. The one sure
characteristic of the educated and
earnest Christian Scientist, and this
young lady was both is purity of life.
She devoted her time chiefly to indi-
vidual uplift work among the lowly
and friendless of the city, often bring
ing waits of the street to her palatial
home, gave them baths, combed their
unkept hair, told them stories of
moral interest and encouraged them
to efforts toward better things. /
CHANGED to meet her while she was
doing clerical work along with great
number of other girls. She was
working. not for the wage, but for the
commendable purpose of familiariz-
ho of a
working girls. By her invitation
visited her home, met her cultured
mother, attended her church, and
came to know her well and admire
her much But to the point of the
story. At the time referred to l had
a letter from man at Atlanta, Ca,
where he had just been released
from Federal prison, after serving a
term of five years on a charge of
raising a postal money order. l had
known the man when he was a babe
at his mothers breast, as boy and
in his young manhood. But he had
now been many years away from Ohio
county and l had known little of his
later life His parents were humble
but honest people, and the good train
ing of his youth had kept him in the
4 straight and narrow path until he
passed from the family hearthstone
out into the great throbbfng, wicked
world He was not wicked at the
core, but his wings were too weak to
soar to the heights his great mind
yearned to reach, and through weak
ness rather than wickedness he fell.
As a prisoner he had written for the
newspapers and magazines some
PHILOSOPHERS of thought that attract
ed the attention of some of the best
people of the South, and at the close
of his prison term one Of the wealth
est women of Atlanta took him to her
home until he could find an engage
meat, a task difficult for the man just
out of prison. Along with the letter
to me he sent copy of the Atlanta
Constitution. mentioning the merits
of the ex-prisoner and the kind at
tention paid him by the first citizens
of the city when he was liberated
from prison. / told the story to the
young lady / have mentioned. In
the goodness of her great heart she
said, 81 believe l will write to him.
You tell me he is weak of will rather
than wicked of heart, and may be
Sal nm xyin ra ~ A
Help him to stand in the world
again." She wrote to him. A cor
respondence grew up between them
and marriage resulted. l was horri-
fed when the woman told me of her
approaching marriage to the ex-con-
Wet Whether weak or criminal a
man in middle life rarely radically
changes his habits, and frankly told
her | feared the task was too great
for her strength. But with the faith
that supports good intentions she
said "You told ME he was only weak,
and will be his strength. He has
great mind and soul, and ! think
can devote my life to no better pur-
pose than to saving his" The couple
went first to Dayton, Ohio, then to
Detroit, and Nework, N. j. and are
now in the worlds metropolis. The
woman, because | had expressed
some sense of responsibility for bring
ing them together, has kept me adj
vised OF her trials and triumphs. l
think she has not attempted to shield
her trials, and after the hardest of
struggles, have reason to believe
now they are enjoying some measure
of happiness in the metropolitan city.
But II the woman has won, IL is case
in ten thousand, and should not en-
courage another good woman to try
such a doubtful experiment.
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