TEMPLARISM AND LATE HOURS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 304, 15 November 1873, Page 3

TEMPLARISM AND LATE HOURS.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —^Having been at the meeting of Good Templars referred to by you in last issue, and intending to be present this evening, with my husband's hearty approval, I beg to make a few remarks on your loml paragraph. I think, Sir, in the first place you fail to recognise fully the importance of female effort nni influence in relation to the many, if not all. institutiofllof the present day, having for their object the welfare of tho human family. From tbe days when women followed our Lord and miniatured unto him, even at a late hour, and often times a great while before day (no hu*bnud complaining) down to the last tea meeting in connection with his church, this fact has been fully excmplifie I. I agree that a wife who allows such a meeting to interfere with domestic duties to tbe extent of your remarks, would be blameable. But where discretion and good management is exercised during the day, this can be avoided. The most efficacious remedy in ench cases would be a due consideration oa the tmrt pf a husband,

Wives are not at allinsensibleto the appreciation of a little self-denial and kindness when shown ; and I am quite sure that there aro few wives in Lawrence who would allow their household to suffer, where this is manifested. So much for the remedy you ask for. I admit that it was an unusually late hour when I reached home, attributable however to the time occupied in the formation of the lodge after the lecture, which, with other female friends, I was anxious to Bee organised. When I related what took place to my husband, and that I was in possession of a secret, he expressed his satisfaction that, although ho had been put to a little inconvenience by /the lateness of the hour, he was amply' rewarded to think that Lawrence was likely to be placed under female influence in the noble eauso of temperance, knowing, as he did, that it would be a complete success. I hope there aro many husbands like my own who will not consider it a hardship to allow their wives, at least, one evening in the week, in order to develop their talents and influence ior tho benefit- of both sexes. The only point further hinted at by my husband, was, that probably the writer was a bachelor, and therefore ought to bo excused. — I am, &c, A Wife of.B teabs' experience.