Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1876 — The Prudent Wife. [ARTICLE]

The Prudent Wife.

, nirtytua must be taken here ih its highest sense, as demoting all that is most excellent in woman—physical beauty arid vigor, mental.’ p<?wer and energy, moral probity and purity, flnri sensibility, graceful manners, and religious fervcir. A womari of such a character is to be more prized than the ririwt' precious things. Nothing dan be compared with her. She isAe nobleat workof-God; where she dwells, the home is blest, andhercompanthe influence of wolian.nmy be ip other departments of life n|ah|uylty, it willbe acknowledged, in all ages and lands, that the home is her natural domain, where she of right wields tha~aceuter,>. Her highest relations and noUKst titles jflire those of wife and mother. It is in,these relations, and as iHstreseof tlie household, that she Uhere.as, wining Ker fadeless r9H; Hh» site hta the wel41 hi» pints; anditakes jLtleepand earnest MB shares his sorrows and doubles his joys. penty ana adversity, alike, she is a true2. A’Ae in The great majority of mankind are born ’to toil, I 'and the truc ■ wife scornalhe idea of tyring supported to idleness.! th heMovcn srilcre, ana according to fhttfKlvW. >h« 15wrjuli|i simrds ana graajy ico-operates with him m every plan of pfionemy apd thyift. not only makes ample provision forfur’V e sale or. the finest kinds elegant and ornanientai’appkt»lJthe»pfMtictof ffldspindle, the loom and the needle, she adds largely. 19 proper on all occasions, by the dignity and affability of her isawiKwfe she attracts the attention of the wise, and commands the admiration of the good; and so carefully does she attend to. the raiment of her husband, that when he ap-

: f a siuStSr AtkSiovmSS’Wft. and finds expression in words of kindness. She is considerate of the feelings of others and never speaks unkindly to them or of them. She. is nd gossip, and takes up deligliilri hearingof TKe faultsancl'fanrngs ofhthws nord&fishfi speak unnecetoarily of them. Hhe hr ho scold, but Wen 'when constrained to chide a servant or reprove a ohjld„ she speaks jently, arMin 4 low she issMs her conjnffids as n<-wftsixpects to be obeyed; ’■■sshe uueruno meaningless menaces ctruseless tlirean. By the exercise of due foresight she is free from hurry and anxiety In the present, and look* forward with hopeful anticipation to the “time to come.” — Alliance. . . t