Home Interests.

Otago Witness, Issue 1243, 25 September 1875, Page 19

Home Interests.

THE TRUE WIFE. She alone is a true wife who sustains her husband in the day of adversity When the world's great frown makes the heart chili with anguish, she is his guardian angel, growing blight and more beautiful as misfortunes crowd along {his path. Thenisthu tirao for the trial of gentleness, then is the time for testing whether the sweetness of her tempor beams only in a transient light, and Jike tho star, shines as brightly under the clouds. Has she smiles just as charming ? Does she say, "affliction can not touch our purity, and should not quench our love ? " Does she try by happy little inventions to lift from his sensitive spirit the burden of thought ? There ar« wive3~no there are beings — who, when dark hours come, fall to repining and upbraiding ; thus adding to the outbide anxiety, the harrowing soenes of domestic strife, as if all the blame in the world would make one hair white or black, or change the decree gone forth. Such know not that our darkness is Heaven s light— our trials are but steps in a golden ladder, by which, if we rightly ascend, we may at last gain that eternal light, and bathe forever in its fullness and beauty. " It that all V and the gentle face of the wife beaming with joy. Her husband had been on tho verge of distraction— all his earthly possessions were gone, and he feared the result of his knowledge, she had been so tenderly cared for all her life ! But says Irving's beautiful story, a "friend advised him to give not sleep i to his eyeß nor slumber to his eyelids ! until he had unfolded to her all his helpless case."

And that was her answer, with a smile of an angel—" Ia that all f" I feared by your sadness it was worse. Let these things be taken, all this splendour, let it go ! I care not for it ; I care only for my hußband'e love and confidence. y Pu shall it-rget in my tiktim that y W wet wey#

in prosperity ; only still love me, and I will aid you to bear these little reverses with cheerfulness."

Still love her ! she a man must reverence ; ay, and liken her to the very angels, for such a woman is a living revelation from Heaven.

"Aa the vine, which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with caivssing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs ; so it is beautifully ordered by Providence, that woman who is the dependent and ornament of man in his happy hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten wish calamity ; winding herself into the rugged recesses of his nature, tenderly supporting the drooping head, and binding up the broken heart."

Oatmeal Pop.ripge.— As a food, the merits have st >od the test of centuries, and which is calculated to promote the sanitary interests of the nation, by laying the foundation for more hardy and vigorous constitutions for the coining generation, let us regard its general adoption as an article of diet as nothing short of a national good. Its phosphorescent qualities act as a gentle and healthy stimulant to the brain, and on no other food can one endure so great and so prolonged mental labour as on oatmeal porridge. Properly cooked, it is not only a healthful and nutritious food, but it is decidedly palatable.