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

studies to distract him. She complains
that he ''never makes calls' with her,
and she finds fault with all his friends,
and is never suited with anything he
brings home to her. She wants to go
out when he wants to stay at home, and
vice versa, and entertains her company
by talking of his faults and shortcomings
i'll his presence, and yet she wonders that
he does not seem to love her as once he
did, She is never satisfied with her seat
in the railroad car when they travel, or
with her apartments at the hotel, and if
she ever yields to his tastes or wishes in
anything, she is forever telling him after
ward that her way would have been bet
ter, and that his way has caused her end
less annoyance. Such women need the
iron hand of veritable master who
would control them by force. They crush
out all the tenderness or respect for the
sex in man s heart, and render home
about as attractive as a swarm of mos
quitOeS 90.
Tact is a necessary element in married
life. 1t may seem very cunning to a
lover if you dash a book or newspaper out
of his hand, and ask him to talk to you.
But it will only serve to annoy or anger a
husband. Do not intrude yourself upon
he wants to read his paper, or when he is
worrying over his account book, or when
he is talking business to some friend. Do
not complain to your husband that he is
cold and changed if he is not in state
of fervent love making every hour
of the twenty-fOur. Remember that
love is like the sun-it has its dawn, its
afternoon its cool evening hours, as well
as its high noon. Do not demand high
noon the whole twenty-fOur hours. Be
patient and cheerful through its SEEM
ingly cool evening and even chilly night
hours, and believe the glorious sun of
true love is shining still though yelled
from you, and wait till the noon hour
comes again, as it surely will. Respond
to the first look or tone of love in your
husband, and do not act cold and show
resentment of the hours or days when he
has seemed to be occupied with other
thoughts than you.
Praise him freely for every kind act or
word he gives you. Do not act as if they
were your right, but take them as pre-
cious gifts, to be received with gratitude.
Praise for attention is the most delicate
reproof for neglect. Try and never rem
der yourself disagreeable in your manner
or actions in presence of your husband.
No matter if he does not seem to notice
it, he will remember it when absent from
you, and it will not make him eager to
return to you. Let him find nowhere
outside of his home woman so agreea-
bic and courteous and winning as the one
he left in it.
Study his moods as you would study the
most difficult piece of music, the deepest
mathematical problem, or the most in
tricate stitches in needle work, and make
it the aim of your life to lend yourself to
his varying needs, as water shapes itself
to any vessel into which it is poured.
/ once knew woman who gave years
of her life to studying the moods of the
insane, that she might be able to lead
them out of their mental maZes into the
light of reason. She accomplished
miracles. Surely wife ought to be
possessed of as great devotion toward her
husband as this woman felt for I'M
fortunate humanity.
There are scores of unhappy households
to-day which might become Ravens of
peace and rest for the perturbed souls.
within, if the wife would set about the
study of her husband IS needs, moods and
foibles, with an aim to strengthen and
help him in every emergency with all the
owe, patience and charity which this