Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1877 — What Men Need Wives For. [ARTICLE]

What Men Need Wives For.

WTnt dots a man want :t wife .for? It is not merely to sweep the house, and make the beds, and darn the socks, uud cook the meals chiefly that a man needs :i wife. If this is all, when a young man calls to see a lady, send him into the pantry to taste the bread and cakes she has made, send him to inspect the needle work and b>*«i making; or pul a broom into tier bauds, and send him to witness its use. Such thing* are important, and the wise young man will look after them. But what the true man next wants of a wife is her companionship, sympathy and love. The way of life has many dreary places in it, and man needs a companion to go with him. A man is somotinu-s oveitakcn with misfortune; he tueeis with failure and defeat; trials and temptations beset him; and lie needs,one to stand by and sympathize. lie has some stern ! 'battles to U;dit with poverty, with enemies and with sin; and he needs a woman who, while he puts his arms afonnd her and feels that he has something to tight for, will .help him fight; that will put her lips to his ear and whisper words of counsel, and her hand to his heart and impart' new inspirations. All through life—through storm and through sunshine, conflict and victory, through adverse and favoring winds —man needs woman's lovp. The hear: yearns for it. A sisters or a mother’s love will hardly sup ply the need. Men may seek for nothing further than, success ip housework. Justly enough, half of tljese got nothing more. The other half, surprised above measure, have gotten more than they sought. Their wives surprise them by bringing a nobler idea of marriage and disclosing the treasury of courage,’ sympathy and love.—Air.