Year: 1870




From the New York Evening Mail.l


'Times are getting worse and wors


every day."


What then, my dear sir7 VIM it d,


any good to draw your face up into teI


thousand wrinkles, and vent the bit
4 terness of your spirit upon all Will
I whom you come in contact, on tn.


strength Of the abOYe-mentiOned fact!
suppose you had TO walk barefoot


over road thickly strewn with thornl


and sharp, dinty stones. What would
you do Go aside out of your way Il
tread on every strayed thorn and Deb


bic, instead Of carefully avoiding every
needless hurt by picking your way


warily through them Which course
VIII you choose now -


VIII you snap your wife up at tbs
breakfast table when she asks Won FOL
"a little change - would YOU suggest
20 her the probability of your all Roina
TO ruin in q short time through the
| prodlgal outlays made for household
needs, and then throw the money
across the table at her as you would
/ throw bone to a dog? You know
very well that her demand is PERFECTLY
| reasonable; and you know, too, that
you would be just as much offended
as you are now If she did not ask YOU
Tor money for household expenses
when it is needed but you are not





dshly venting your unpleasant feelings
on this convenient domestic scape.
goat.


And if she should wonderful to think
ofI) pluck up enough courage TO ask
Xou Tor money to buy q new dress
though it may be only six months since
she last committed this mortal sim
don't ask her Ironically If she thinks
g thousand dollars will do her for this
Time or make some cutting remark
about her ruinous eXtravaHRnce and
the slave life that you lead but If you
can afford 1t, give her the money cheer
fully ana kiss into the bargain. But
if you really feel too poor 70 INDULGE
in the pleasure of seeing your wife In
new dress for the first time in six
months, give her the kiss any how and
explain the matter kindly to her, and
the kiss and the kind axPlanatiOn will
go nearly all the way toward making
her forget the disappoinEment,


And, above all, don't bring your
business home at night with you. Don't
sit in solitary naisanthropy, or smarl
and poke the dre. Your wife HASN'T
had q chance to talk to Won all day.-
She has thousand little cheering items
to communicate butwhile you sit there
looking so cold and repeIlant, she has
no courage to begin.


Your children are eager for q game
OF rOmps; but they are ftafraid of
papa" when he looks as he does here
Tonight so they congregate in a half
awed manner in the corners, until il iz
time to go to bed. No pleasant chat,
no merry laughter, no game at rOmps,
no music-nOthing but gloom and con-
straint, because 'sfather has come home
in bad humor."


You ungratefui man You inhuman
iceberg to behave so In the bosom of
your familyi To turn away from the
pleasures and the privileges still left
you, because yo1s cGn's have eUerVthfng
Just as yOlE lDG1lt It : Think of the low
ing, clinging hearts that yOur coldness
hadows-Ofthe bright faces over which
your frOWn has cast a reflected gloom.
Aren't You ashamed yourself?


Again, your burdens may be so heavy
that you cannot smile. But, oh be
kind. Because your own soul is dark,
don't pierce another heart with q need.
less wound by your eoldness and sul-
lenness. Because there are some thorns
in your way, don't plant other thOrns
in the path of another with your own
hand. If you cannot be cheerful, be
kind.