Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1881 — Want of Energy. [ARTICLE]

Want of Energy.

Want of energy is a great and common cause of the want of domestic comfort. As the best laid fire can give no heat and cook no food unless it is lighted, so the clearest ideas and purest intentions, will produce no corresponding actions without that power to all that is of value, which is, as it were, the very life of life, and which is never more necessary or available than in the matter of a family. Those who have it not, and many are constitutionally destitute of' it, would do well to enquire of their experience and their conscience what compensating virtues they can bring into the marriage stat? to justify them in entering upon its duties without that which is so essential to their performance. They should consider that tho pretty face and graceful languor, which, as it is often especially attractive to the most impetuous of the other sex, gained them ardent lovers, will not enable them to satisfy the innumerable requisitions and secure the social happiness of the fidgety and exacting husbands, into which characters ardent and impetuous lovers are generally transformed.