Show A wife A home to 90 to beautiful inexpressibly beautiful definition suggestive of gentleness affection rest yes rest arid and home even I 1 I 1 who have leen been a wanderer all my life long iong nho have never had a fireside all my own i mine to be sat by with a second self dearer if possible than tile the fireside even 1 I lin lingering gerillo over that phrase can scarcely reconcile ile myself to the fact that I 1 am m not to somo some fond and faithful heart that being to go home to even I 1 can shut my eyes and dream of that thai which would be a blessed reality I 1 an see a cottage abich bich ibich love i has made holy nestling away in the sunny summer leaves where the golden all glory of sunset lingers long est and the shadows read reach h lanct laicato I 1 can see the gentle wife with her soft sv sr beet face gazing out of the open door and down the lane to the turnpike where he is momentarily expected to appear I 1 can hear the hunt hum of childrens voices arid and feel the pressure of cool frosh fresh kisses winch come cattle only from childrens lips I 1 can read in the sudden 11 flashing ahin of gnei ire eye eyce that there is a step not far i distant for her ear t abil f I 1 vui at impetuous worldly man inan leaving the he world and its cares behind jintil him to 10 meet the alio bearg lie he has come halt home to there is a loving wife in his annii ariere are children ildren Lh clambering kib pema peace quietude u ii home born all around 1 him ind tile the worldly ma man I 1 I 1 A with ith the life cb cat hi hia spirit anh tafe th e knowledge of city cares and ana chiy cilk speculations teeming in his hia brain 1 1 1 turns from froin thern them alluto all to find rest and reposo in the nook ho he has set apart for love god bless hirn him arid and god bless her imaginary though they are for far while I 1 bitne irio s heir perfect I 1 love and content I 1 am remembering 1 that I 1 am ain still a wanderer a wanderer wani i with the knowledge that had I 1 fate be n more propitious I 1 too might have had my loving heart my sunny 1 homo home and my iny loving children but fate was inexorable and were all 1 this happiness might have been lies stark and bare before me the pano rama of two wasted lives god help us all we are not the architects of our own fortunes let moralists mora lists say what they may inay j I 1 know that the wot id is full of 1 homes that are no homes 0 of f wives I 1 upon whose artificial hearts no true husband could call for sympathy or I 1 mothers upon whose bare jewelled necks there is no room for childhoods j fondling arms I 1 know all this but I 1 cannot realize that it is so lo 10 love e seems to me so sacred marriage so holy a a tie that man and womans comans life should not be completed without it not the wild fierce persistent love i which aich burns itself out in its own fire farej not the marriage of circumstance I 1 or convenience to which so malay manyi lives are devoted but the pure true lasting love the wedding of souls i that have grown indissolubly indi to each other the uniting of hearts that neither time lime nor ditar distance ice nor mis 1 fortune can effect a union of f soul sense and spirit sure as death arid and lasting as eternity pitiful oh pitiful that there is no more such unions A being to go home to only the I 1 heart of man can tell how truly in every life such a being is needed no matter how self centered or pre 1 occupied no matter how hardened down with tho the perplexities of life there come yearnings for that rapturous human love dreaming drea of fond lips lip warm loving arms arid and abic anticipations pa of a time to come when ons one arthall heart he shall beat for him and him only I 1 i I 1 lu lucky for him who amidst the I 1 unreal and artificial glare of life gathers to liis his bosom this pearl of greatest price lucky for him who when the ter tempest riVest of care and worldly cespon a clity raze rae tiit most fiercely cari can canfall feet fael that when the tiresome toil is oyer over and the day is done he has a being bei ng to go home to who can mini ater to his comfort and sympathize with his cares the man who has a wife that he be truly loves can make up his bis mind that he has anticipated the mil benium commenced his bis paradise on earth |