Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1882-02-10
FOR MEN ONLY.

ADELlNE F. STORY.
If woman's curiosity is as great as it
has come to be considered, no doubt
every one of the sisterhood who CLAN
ces at the above heading. will read
what follows. The woman whose good
fortune it is 70 have kind, thought
full husband; one who takes her out fire.
quently. never forgets to see that the
robes are well tucked in about her in
cold weather, and thinks it his place
and not hers to hold the umbrella in
case Of storm; who, to tighten her la
Dor, winds the clock every morning and
attends to the locking up al night; who
has never discovered that the children
take all their bad traits from her. and
that IN their good ones they take after
him; who shows as much consideration
for her as he does for other women; who
in short, attends to all the little details
for her comfort as though they we're as
much to him as his own, will think
what is here said altogether uncalled
for, while the woman who is fast bound
to man ola different stamp, will say;
80, l know all about those men. But
there's no use of talking to them
they're TOO selfish to care for any,
thing"
1t is for such men as this woman's lot
is cast with, that what I have to say is
intended. 1 know that every one of
you that has read thus far, will go on,
because you havn't the faintest sus-
picion that it IS meant foryou, and you
will want to see how some one else
catches It,
But let us see. What do you do for
your wife because she is your wife, and
it is, therefore, your duty to do your
best to make life pleasant toher7 You
undertook the task-years ago. Now
you look after your own comfort, and
that is about all you want to attend to,
in that line. You use tobacco, though
she dislikes it, and the smell of it in
your breath and in your clothes is nau-
seating to her. You swear in her pres
ence, though you would not in that of
another woman, and that, too, when
you know just how hateful it is to her.
You are, moreover, in other respects
not too choice in your use of language,
oblging her to hear words from you
would be shocked, and rightly, too, to
hear coming from her lips. You spit
on the floor, though you know it dis
gusts her. You keep your hat on in
the house, and she weighs you in her
mind against other men she knows, who
do not-and you are found wanting.
You eat with your knife, even when there
is company present, and that mortlfies
her. You tell all the little secrets she
trusts you with, to your father and bro
Their and that weaKens her confidence
in you. But these are triies, you say
They may be, but triAes make up the
sum of our happiness or unhappiness.
But you are delinquent in other respects
and your faults of omission are as great
as your faults of commission. You
never voluntarily and of your own free
act, ask her to go out with you. If she
is one Of the favored few and is so sit
uated that she can 60 of herself when
she pleases, it does not matter 50 much
but if she is one ofthe many compelled,
alone and unassisted, to keep the
domestic treadmill in motion, it
does not matter a great deal.
You hitch up your team. slick yourself
up little and drive to town. You have
business there, or you 60 there because
you have nothing in particular to do,
aud you want to get out. But do you
take your wife along! Notyou, indeed,
any more than you do when you drop
in at a neighbours of an evening for an
hours chat, and yet if there is any
earthly mortal who needs to get away,
now and then, from scene Of care ,
and worry, it is the housewife who must .
make her one pair OF hands
do the work of two. '
Perhaps if you try you will remember i
hat she used to. Shewould be lacking
in dignity to keep it up all her life when
your actions, if not your word, plainly !
ell her that you don't want her to 60
along with you.
And then you Withhold your sympathy
rom her in matters. which are ofinterest
o her, or which are trying to her, and {
'eing woman sympathy is necessary !!
o her happiness. There are many other
hings you do which you should not, c
md many which you should do and do
lot, but this article is growing long and
o, for the present forbear.
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