Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1875 — The Wife’s Commandments [ARTICLE]

The Wife’s Commandments

I. Thou shsli have no other wife but me. IL Thou shalt not take into thy house any beautiful brazen, image to bow down to her, to serve her, for I am a jealous wife, visiting &!?, 111. Thou shalt not take the name of thy w fe in vain. IV- Remember to keep her respectably. V. Honor thy -wife’s father and mother. VI. Thou shalt not scold. > VII. Thou ahalt not find fault with thy dinner l . VIII. Thou sh dt rck the cradle in my absence, ami prepare ths tea for my return. IX. Thou shrill not be behind thy neighbors. X. Thou shalt not visit the rum tavern, thou ahult not covet the tavern keeper’s rum, nor his brandy, nor his gin, nor Lis whisky, nor his wine, nor anything that is beh nd the bar of the rutn seller. XI. Thou shult not visit the billiard saloon, neither for worshiping in the dance, nor the heaps of money that lay on the table. XII. Thon shsit not stay out later than at t ight. The two th ngs that brings business most frequently to disaster are greediness and dishonesty. They ate the breasts on which bankruptcy nurses itself. Instead of being a necessary help, dishon sty is the leak, the Weight, the unmeasurable evil that oppresses business. More labor is exacted, more care of the mind is required, more wear ami te r of watching is tendered necessary, more eomplcx tj ot business arrungemei.ts is called tot, more money is spent and wasted on society, by dishonesty, than any man can measure or conceive. I think that if it were given us, by a kind , f sorcery, to extract the element of dishonesty front the diifereilt spheres us life, it would be found that neatly one-half of the forces applied to business were means uselessly applied to Watch men and guard against tueir uishouisties. It men couid tie believed when ihey spoke, and trusted when they promised, it would take from bu.-iness half of its circuity. Our business is roiled up in complexitics. It isl.ke an army marching in an enemy’s Country and b ing obliged to explvre etery step of i-s waj, and to be constantly ready tor battle; wher a«, if men were honest, it would bo like a man going for pleasure over a iriend’s territory, enjoying the sweet delights that surround him on every hand. -H. \V. Beecher.