276 THE BEE keeper's MANtAIi. 



If I could address a friendly word of advice to every 

 married woman, I would say, " Do all that you can to make 

 your husband's home a place of attraction. When absent 

 from it, let his heart glow at the very thought of returning 

 to its dear enjoyments ; and let his countenance involuntarily 

 put on a more cheerful look, and his joy-quickened steps 

 proclaim, as he is approaching, that he feels in his " heart 

 of hearts," that " there is no place like home." Let her 

 whom he has chosen as a wife and-companion, be the happy 

 and honored Queen in his cheerful habitation : let her be 

 the center and soul about which his best affections shall ever 

 revolve. I know that there are brutes in the guise of men, 

 upon whom all the winning attractions of a prudent, virtuous 

 wife, make little or no impression. Alas that it should be 

 so I but who can tell how many, even of the most hopeless 

 cases, have been saved for two worlds, by a union with a 

 virtuous woman, in whose " tongue was the law of kind- 

 ness," and of whom it could be said, " the heart of her 

 husband doth safely trust in her," for " she will do him good 

 and not evil, all the days of her life." 



Said a man of large experience, " I scarcely know a 

 woman who hastin intemperate husband, who did not either 

 marry a man whose habits were already bad, or who did not 

 drive her husband to evil courses, (often when such a ca- 

 lamitous result was the furthest possible from her thoughts 

 or wishes,) by making him feel that he had no happy 

 home." Think of it, ye who find that home is not full of 

 dear delights, as well to yourselves, as to your affectionate 

 husbands ! Try how much virtue there may be in winning 

 words and happy smiles, and the cheerful discharge of 

 household duties, and prove the utmost possible efficacy of 

 love and faith and prayer, before those words of fearful 

 agony are extorted from your despairing lips. 



