Show short patent ser sermon moll BY DOW JR 30 I 1 I 1 shall give unto you a sermon today to day drawn from the following text the lady who before a tub Is not ashamed to wring a and nd rub or on the floor ash ashamed aad t to 0 scrub and cares not who calls in to see se her laboring so industriously will make a wife tor for you and me my aly bret brethren hren since you know that marri marriage alre is is a divine institution and that every one of you should have a wife what kind of rib would you select selects A pretty useless little doll or woman big and spunky enough to with a bear and come off urt firt best besta I 1 imagine you would care nochim nothing for either extreme but you would look for personal charms 0 you foolish idolaters idol aters at the shrine of beauty know you not that hundreds of husbands are made miserable by handsome sand that thousands are happy in in the possession of homely ones onese homely without but beautiful within alas what is is beauty it is is a flower that wills wiles and withers almost as soon as it is is planted a tr ancient rainbow a fleeting meteor a deceitful willo will o the wisp moonlight the tha kind of a wife you want is is of good morals and knows how to mend trousers trow sers who can reconcile peeling potatoes with practical or fashionable piety who can waltz with the churn dash and sing with the tea kettle who understands brom and the true science science of mopping who can knit stockings without knitting tinn her brows and knit zip up her husbands raveled graveled sleeve of care who prefers rs sewing tears with her needle to sowing the tares of escandel with her tongue such is is decidedly a better half take taka her if you can get her let her be up to her elbows elbow s in in the suds of the wash tub or picking the geese in in the cow stable my hearers my text speaks of a lady a before the wash tub you may think it absurd but let me tell you that a female can be a lady before the tub in the kitchen as much as in the drawing room or in in the parlor what constitutes a lady it is not a costly dress paint for the cheeks false hair and falser airs but it is her general deportment her intellectual tel endowments and that evidence of f virtue which commands the silent respect and admiration of the world she would be recognized as a lady at once it matters not where or in what situation she were found whether searching for led bed bugs with a hot poker or hollod hollowing ing hallelujah at a camp meeting all that I 1 have further cosay to say fellow bachelor is is that when you you marry see that you get a lady inside and out one who knows how to keep the pot boiling and looks well to her household i so mote it be the loss of fruit trees within the last three years in in illinois is is estimated at about three millions of dollars the retentive clayey loam subsoil which characterizes the prairie lands is is supposed p 0 ed to be the cause and farmers have hava adopted do p t d the plan of ridging their orchards ch r d s b by y r repeated plowing commencing at the same ridges and ending at the same furrows to remedy the evil |