Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1871 — “No Secret, Doctor.” [ARTICLE]

“No Secret, Doctor.”

“ I noticed,” said Benjamin Franklin, “ a mechanic, among a number of others, at work on a house erecting but a little way from my office, who always appeared to be in a merry humor—who had a kind and cheerful smile for every one he met. Let the day be ever so cold, gloomy, or sunless, a happy smile danced like a sunbeam on his cncerful countenance. Meeting him one morning, I asked him to tell me the secret of his constant happy flow of spirits. ‘No secret, doctor,’ he replied. * I havo got cue of the best of wives, and when I go to work she has al ways a kind word of encouragement for me; and when Igo homo she always meets me with a smile and a k.ss; and then tea is 6ure to be ready; and she has done so many little things to please me, that I cannot find it in my heart to speak an unkind word to anybody.”’ What influence, then, has women over the heart of mkn to soften it, and make it the foundation of cheerful and pure emotions! Speak gently, then; a kind greeting, after the toils of the day are over, costs nothing, and gore far towards making home happy and peaceful. Young wives, candidates for wives, should keep this in mpidjas to older wives, experience may have already taught them this important lesson And wbat we say to wives, we say also to husbands—a loving word and kiss go very ar with a woman.— N. 7. Observer, * —~ M —Mr. Shanley, the H6osac Tunnel contractor, promises that he shall have a hole from the east enid to the central shaft within eighteen months, and have the tunnel completed by July, 1871,