Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1860 — Be Gentlemen at Home. [ARTICLE]

Be Gentlemen at Home.

There are few families we imagine, anywhere, in which love is not abused as furnishing licence for impoliteness. A husband, father, or brother, will speak harsh words to those he loves best, simply because the love and family pride keeps him from getting his head broken. It is a shame that a man will speak more impolitely at times, to his wife or sister than he would to any other female, except a low and vicious one. It i 3 thus that the honest affections of a man’s nature proves a weaker protection to woman in the family circle, than the restraints of society, and that a woman is usually indebted for the kindest politeness of life, to those- not belonging to her own household. Things ought not so to be. The man who, because it will not be resented, inflicts his spleen and bad temper upon those of his hearthstone is a small coward and a very mean man. Kind words are circulating mediums between true gentlemen and ladies at home, and no palish exhibited in society can atone for the harsh language and disrespectful treatment too often indulged in between those bound together by God’s own ties of blood,-and the still more sacred bonds of conjugal love.