Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-12-23

2. Those who complain and find fault.
3. Those who are seliishly wasteful and
extravagant. 4. Those who are petty
tyrants and "naggers. - 5. Those who
lack tact.
Now, if wife has love, patience,
good temper, beauty and accomplish
ments, yet any one of those five faults
above mentioned may serve to ruin her
home and make her husband "wish he
were single again. - \ wife 5 love should
be as liberal as the love of God. She
should study the daily habits of her lover
before she marries him, and then she
should allow his life to run as nearly as it
is possible in those old channels Of pleas
ure without trespasSing upon the honor or
purity of the new relation. If you marry
a man who has had life filled with
flirtatiOnS, clubs, cards and races, do not
demand of him the sacrifice of anything
but his tIirtations. That you have the
right to demand, but leave him his clubs
and races, with no more restriction than
he felt before marriage. Add to those
pleasures which he has so long enjoyed
the happiness of u perfectly ordered home
and the sweetest and most loving vel
come when he returns to you that it is
possible for man to receive. No mat
ter if you are obliged to pass Il good many
lonely hours to cultivate this liberality, it
will repay you ere long. Eight men out
of ten win appreciate this spirit of gener-
OSity, and Will in return plan for the
comfort and pleasure of the wife.
know Il woman who always sits up
until her husband S return at night when
he goes to the club. He is fond of a
skillful game of cards, and he has never
been known to return home intoxicated.
There is nothing for her to fear or con-
denim i'll his occasional visits to the
club, but she destroys all his pleas
ure by "waiting up' for him, and
if he stays late he finds her with a
silent but accusing face at the door, and
i'll the morning she complains of q head
ache, md looks at him with the eyes of a
maftyr@. She has destroyed his enjoyment
iu4Ris Old pleasure and given him no at
tractive side of herself at home to lead
him to abandon it. His friends laugh
over his nervous, restless manner at the
club, and make light jests about the
cause, and one more black mark against
matrimony is set down by the male sex.
1t is foolish to expect Il husband, who
has entire access to his wife ; society, to
make the same sacrifices to be with her
for an evening that the lover makes, who
is only admitted to the loved ones pres
ence for an hour. 1t is no indication of
any lessening of love if he sometimes goes
out and leaves her at home. A jewel may
be very precious to us, even if we do not
always wish to wear it in sight and gaze
upon its brilliancy.
Some women seem to marry with the
idea that "wife'' means interferer. -
They set themselves to work at once to
reyolutionize the man IS whole life land de-
mand attentions which, if they exercised
little gentle patience, would be gladly
given. have seen wives who laid plans
for almost every hour of their husband s
leisure time. Now, no man likes this.
1t is natural for them to be planners and
directors, and the wife who in all ways
strives to cater to her husband s tastes
and comfort will find him planning for
her happiness erelong. Nothing touches
a man of any feeling quicker than to see
that his wife yield her wishes to his, and
gives up with ready sweetness in small
matters. Pay attention to any wish of
his, no matter how trivial and foolish it
may seem to you, and respond TO his re-
quests cheerfully, not sullenly, and in n
little while you shall find him the most
reasonable and thoughtful of men. OF
course l am not writing of brrltes or