The State Journal

We believe it was Junius Henri Browne who bears this testimony to the worth of woman. Every true husband will appreciate it:

"Home would not be home without woman's management. It is the rhythm of Nature's precious quality, the adjustment of spiritual irregularities. It comes when it is most needed; fits itself silently to its place. Man is saved by it from a hundred ills—from his arch enemy, himself. He knows how solitude preys upon him; how constant society of his own sex palls, and frequently repels. Even woman would weary him but for her management, whose fineness and fullness are proportioned to her sympathy and love. He enters her presence sullen and bitter, he knows not why. The demon is in possession—the demon that would bid him, if all his hopes of happiness lay in a crystal vase to seize and dash it to pieces. She, sweet spirit of peace, smiles upon the clouded brow; prepares every trifle to his familiar liking; breathes all about her the aroma of gentleness and repose. No look or tone of tenderness from him. Coldness, stiffness, cruelty restrained, are in the possessed. Her smile grows brighter, her air more gracious, her form more radiant with soft regret.

Such influence is irresistible. The demon and the angel are opposed, and evil steadily retreats, as it always must in final field before advancing good. Her arms are about his neck: her cheek against his breast; the old trite words are heard, which, fresh whenever spoken, in every language mean the same; and through the broken cloud the peaceful sky bends down, as if to bless. The man is still possessed; but possessed as Nature wills, with the gentleness and trust, the fidelity and tact, the management and love of his sympathetic sister, his proper partner, his devoted friend."