For Our Lady Readers.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIV, Issue 4, 21 May 1897, Page 11

For Our Lady Readers.

A woman's wail.

A woman's philosophy

THE LOVABLE WOMAN.

Ere long we'll welcome verdant spring The daffodil and rose. And we'd welcome any season, if It wasn't for the clothes. But what we wear in winter time Won't do for gentle spring, And of last summer's wardrobe we Can't use a single thing. For Fashion, tyrant Fashion, That provokmgest of flirts, Has ordered out the giant sleeves — In trimming for the skirts 1

Men who complain of their homes, says a lady writer, too often overlook the fact that they themselves are more or less responsible for the atmosphere which pervades it. Consideration for a wife is one of the sweetest flowers which a husband can grow and nourish in the home garden. It will do more than the costliest bouquets which he can bring home from the florist. It is the little things in this world that make life attractive, and it is the little acts of courtesy and consideration on the part of the husband which deepens her love for him, heightens her respect tor other men, and makes her daily and hourly gratetul to God, through whose infinite wisdom her life and that of her husband were brought together. Marriage is never a failure in a home where consideration fills the minds and lives of the husband and wife. It is a golden bond between them which brightens years a..d binds them together when they are absent from one another.

Very lovely and lovable is the woman who has cultivated a disposition angelic enough to see the gi od and not the evil side of human nature, who can be severe with her own feelings and excuse the faults of others. We are told that she is a dull, uninteresting creature, and if we take the trouble to look into the matter we find she does not laugh at her neighbour's pet weakness ; she does not enjoy hitting out right and left at the world at large, and is always ready with a plea for unseen and unsuspected reasons, which, if they could be revealed, would go a long way towards modifying harsh judgment. Our lovable woman may not be witty, she may be a little prosy ; but she it is to whom we go when in trouble for sympathy, and confiile with a feeling that our secret will not be torn to shreds as soon as our back is turned. — Catholic Fireside.