Year: 1873

| 49,
DUTY


Duty Is divine thing to be sure,


but that individual makes great mis-
take who supposes 1t . duty to be
crushed. III y woman As left be q


slave as not she should love her hus-
band too well to cultivate tyranny In


his nature. l ann happy to believe
that such instances are rare, thee mis-.
cry Of life il so complete where they
do exist.


| will take this occasion to say to
burdehed and abused wives every
where, don't go moping around meek
ly, accepting burdens and Sights All,
cross words with the supposition that
your hearts will break, and you will
die, and that he will writhe in an un.
consolable grief over his foolhardiness.
Don't deceive yourselves. 1t won't
pay with such q disposition. The
meeker you are the meAner he'll! be.
1t is the duty of neither man nor wo-
man to be crushed. Our worst enemy
will feel certain respect for US If we
but show a hearty respect for ourselves.
| know dear old lady with a buster
ing husband who made her pay for all
the vexatioAs and acknowledgements o! /
his life. Poor christian, she bore Il all |
without murmer, because she beIiev-
ed that he loved her, and that 1t was
just his temper aud he couldn't help II.
On her death bed, after thirty years
Of abuse, she told her daughters to "be
very kind to father after she was gone
because he would grieve so much over
the cruel words he had said to her. p
Didn't he grieve" Such an exhibition
ofgrief hope never to witness again.
He stood over the placid, worn face
and gave utterance to the remarkable
words: "The Lord gave and the Lord
taketh away. Blessed be the name Of
the Lord.' 1t is better for Nanny
to go first !; / can battle with the world
better than Nanny could" Battle
with the worli!! Just three months
from that day he was married to gay |
young widow. Battle with the world |
indeed. II that young widow under
stands herself, Nanny will bemost
gloriously avenged. There may not |
be another. man in the world who
would have done precisely rs he did.
| suppose not.


| But the human heart Is elastic, and
every mother should defend herself In
such matters, carefully cherishing her
physical, mental and spiritual being.
that she may remain upon the earth
blessing to her ,hildren-remember.
ing always that there may he another
wife to her husband but that there
can never be another mother 10 her
children.


woMAN's WORK.


Farmers wives aud daug hters, who
really do work ut house work, are IL
able to have great deal harder time
than their husbands and brothers.
know what l am saying. Several
years of my own girlhood were given
to out t-door work, and am sure
toiled as faithfully according to my
age and strength as any farmer pres
ent has done. There was nothing /
that l couldn't do with corn, from
planting and hoeing, cutting and
husking to shelling sud making play
houses Of the cobs-which l was never
too tired to do. l have also assisted |
in haying and harvesting, in planting
trees and gathering fruit, in building
fence and driving team. Don't Il re-
member that the glorious air alone re-
paid all the toll. Don't know what
pleasant hours of leisure you have Ut
noon aud in the evening, and how
everybody waits upon you because
you've been ut work, aud how you are
never too tired to go horseback riding
at night You have emergencies, OF
course. when, as you sometimes ex
press il, you work like horse.'
But your wife works like woman,
and as only u woman can work when
the washing and ironing or baking Is
going and dinner to get aud the ba-
by h crying aud the work. room like
All ovel, aud may he your frown
looming up in the distance -frown!
how dare you do it!


Frown' at the mother Of your baby
about work or anything else. III
had my way about It, no mother of q
baby should work til it is five years
of age. Women who have to furnish
this wofld with babies, and have the
care Of them besides, should be re-
lieved OF all other duties. II it cannot
be accomplished in any other way,
there should be public appropriation
for the beneficent purpose. Men talk
of reverencng maternity, but | want
to see it done in practical, tan
gibIe way that every mother may feel
that she is directly in partnership
with God iD the mysterious realm
of creation, and that all the world does
honor TO her holy office. When this is
the principle that guides mems lives
in regard to womanhood, we shall
hear no more of frivolous and selfish
mothers, who strike hands with crime
above slaughtered innocents. The
scales will fall from her eyes, aud she
shall behold what has been held q
cross, burden and q punishment,
transformed into starry crown,
whose substance Is of God, and whose
light is of heaven. How can any wo-
man reverence maternity or God or
any ything else when her burden is ten-
fold greater than it should be, and her
heart full of an unspeakable anguish
over neglect and cruel words and
blighted hopes. Many q dark picture
comes up before me as mention these
things. but cannot trouble you with
them.


"PUTTER ROUND"


One instance may mention that
occurred in that paradise Of which we
have all heard-"way down east"
The wife did all the household work
for family Of eight, aud the husband
used to boast that he "never hired