Year: 1859

dr0Op Deneath the long day s toll Thine /
is the heart which best should know. Ask
and see if it be so. Then love him and
cheer him with that love. Assure him in
everything be does your heart is with him,
and believe ME, be will not often do wrong.
Let the little love words flock out like bees
oney-laden, but stngless, aud go searching
deep in his hearts garden for blossoms
sure that they will find some, even though
they may be but few You may think him
cold, and say that he does not need such
ministrations-not so-we all need them
TO the world---to you even, if yours is not
a sympathetic nature, he may wear the out
ward semblance of sternness, but approach,
look nearer, look deeper into those impassive
eyes, and you will see the beggard and DESC
late expression the great hunger Of fam
ishing soul--which your love alone can
satisfy. Do not deny it, but give it freely,
joyfully, and bless God for the power of
comforting so great a happiness. Tell your
husband that you love him. Do not send
him out to stare life in the face, to meet its
mockery and endure its frown, without those
sweet whispers from your heart, which shall
ever rise like the harping of angels, over
the din of the world, singing ever in his
ear the chorus, I" Fond, faithful and true =
fond, faithful and true +"


And you, proud man, think not that love
and the expression of it is less your duty.
The gentle heart which you have won, and
which you have sworn " to love, to cherish
until death do US part" will aIways need
your kindly care. DO not allow her to take
your affection as matter of course. This
cannot satisfy loving woman's heart.
Praise her, encourage her, coufde in her,
tell her again and again that is dear to you,
the very light" Of your heart and house.
All life has its sorrow and suffering, but she
will gather from few low, honied words of
yours, nectar sufficient to sweeteu many a
bitter cup, and so drink the wormwood an
murmuring. You have lived her com
panion" for years, and yet never discovered
the full riches of her heart. " / lore you"
is the open sesame to its treasure. Seek to
understand her Strive to look into the
depths of her nature. Listen if the glad
tones of her voice are lowered and broken
since she became your wife; watcL if the
blush-rose is paler on her cheek than before
she was bride. If so, all is not well. She


may seem to you cheerful and unrepining,
while her soul wears the sackcloth of deso-


lation, and her weary spirit faints under the


heat and burden Of the day." The sweet,


uncompaning lips may greet you with q


smile, but light in her eye is only tear


which she turns aside to dash away alone


they rain over the white and suffering face
in Your presence they are with martyr.lke


effort forced backupon her heart. Oh then


be not SO sparing of the little love words


When you leave her, let it be with whole


summers sunshine garnished in your smile


and when you come again bring not in youi


cold Indifferent eyes, that drearlness Of desc


lation which stares out from the leaden sky


of winter upon the destitute, the homeless


When she fees to you like the weary bird


which folds its wings in some stately palm


and dips its bosom, covered with the dust oi


the desert, in the cool refreshing fountain
oh ! let her slumber there awhile in the
+ spice winds from the foliage, and your heart
fountain sings cheerily its happy song
''Fond. Jai4fuI and truel.tond, taithta


and truel /"


/ DoyOu ever look forward to the going ou
Of the sweet light" Of your house? Does
Fear, the dread "dweller on the threshold


of Love, sit beside you through the darl
hours and follow every emotion with it,
lurid haunting eyes! Do you shudder a


the thought how soon the blessed "lght'


Of your home may pass away from you
, hearthstone forever-the soft eyes closed


the gentle hand stiffened, the warm hear
pulseless the little form white and rigid


and soon to be hidden away from you unde
the snow and the dark grave. Oh ! then
neyer be chary Of the little love words-bu


let your loved ones pass into the COLDER
gates of the Celestial City, still singing il
+ the hour of glory and triumph, Fond
taithtul and true I fond, faithful and true!
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