The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-01-27
For You'll 1t Fits You.

"TMEs are getting iworse and worse
every day."
What then, my dear sire Will it
do any good to draw your face up
into ten thousand wrinkles and vent the
bitterness of your spirit upon all with
whom you come in contact, on the strength
of the aforementioned fact?
Suppose you had to walk barefoot over
a road thickly strewn with thorns and
sharp, flinty stones. What would you do?
Go aside out of the way to tread on every
stray thorn and PEBBLE, instead of careful
ly avoiding every needless hurt by pick
ing your way YEARLY through them
Which course will you choose now?
Will you snap Your wife up at the
breakfast table when she asks you for
"a little changer" Would you suggest
to her the probability of your all GO
ing to ruin in short time through
the prodigal OUTLAWS made for household
needs, and then throw the money across
the table at her as you would throw bone
to dog? You know very well that her
demand is perfectly reasonable; and you
know, too, that you would be just as much
offended as you are now if she did not ask
you for money for household expenses
when it is needed; but you are not willing
| ing your unpleasant feelings on this con-
venient domestic scapegoat
And if she should Wonderful to think
off pluck up enough courage to ask you
for money to buy new dress-though it
may be only six months since she last
| committed this mortal sin-don't ask her
ironically if she thinks a thousand dollars
will do her for this time; or make some
| cutting remark about her ruinOus extrava-
gance and the slave life that you lead but
if you can afford it, give her the money
cheerfully and kiss into the bargain.
But if you really feel too poor to indulge
yourself in the pleasure of seeing your
wife III a new dress for the first time in
six months, give her the kiss any how and
explain the matter kindly TO her, and the
kind explanation will go nearly all the
way toward making her forget the disap
pointmcnt.
And, above all, don't bring your bust
ness home at night with you Don't sit
in solitary misanthropy, or snarl and poke
the fire. Your wife hasn't had a chance
to talk to you all day. She hasa thousand
little cheering items to communicate, but
while you sit there looking so cold and re
pellant, she has no courage to begin.
| Your children are eager for game O
romps; but they are "afraid of papa
when he looks as he docs here tonight
so they congregate in halfawed manner
in the corners, until it is time to GO t.
bed. No pic. SAINT chat, no merry laugh
ter, no game at rOmps, no music-nothins
but gloom and constraint, because "fathe
has come home in bad humor."
You ungrateful mani You inhumal
iceberg. TO behave SO in the bosom o
your family To turn away from tn
pleasures and the privileges still left you
because you can't hare ererytlting just as 40,
actht 1t Think Of the loving, clingin,
hearts that your GOODNESS shadows-of tn
bright faces over which your frown ha
cast a reflected gloom Aren't yo,
ashamed of yourselfs
Again, your burdens may be so heavy
that you can not smile. Bnt, oh be kind
Because your own soul is dark, don
pierce another heart with needles
wound by your coldness and sullenness
Because there are some thorns in you
way, don't plant other thorns in the patti
of another with your own hand If yol
cannot be cheerful, be kind-Nc,o Yon
Euening 1KdQ.