Sweet-Minded Women.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 223, 16 August 1884, Page 2

Sweet-Minded Women.

[Truth.} So great is the influence of a sweetminded woman on those around her that it is almost boundless. It is to her that friends come in 'seasons of sickness and sorrow for. help and comfort. One soothing touch of her kindly harfds works wonders m th.c feverish child; a few words let fall from het lips.in the ear of a sorrowing sister do ranch to laise the load of grief that is bowing its "victim down to the (hist of- anguish.. The husband \ comes home worn .out with; fche^prW i, sure of business and irritable with the wOrld^fri general, but when-he en!efs<* the cosy sitting-room and sees the blaze of the bright fire and meets his » wife's smiling face, he succumbs m a moment to the . soothmg influence, _ which act as a balmj>f Gilead to his Vouhded. spirit. . .We are all, weary with combating with the realities of life. The rough, schoolboys flies m a rage from the taunts of his companions to find solace m his mother's smile ; the little one, full of grief with its own large trouble,- finds a heaven of rest on its mother's breast ; and so: one might go on with instances of the influence a swect-mirided woman has m the social life with which > she is connected. Beauty is an insignificant power when compared with hers. -. •■•■•;-."■ ■ v .