Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1888-03-30
Married LiHe-BOarding.HO Houses.

Nothing is more usual in New York
than for the man Just married to take
his young wife to no other home than
u board lng-house. He does it with the
most laudable intentions IN the world
and with the fixed determination to 60
housekeeping Just as soon as his i'm.
proved prospects will Justify him TO in
dulge in an increas" OF expenditure. At
present ii is 80 nice to sit down to table
without any harassing fear of butchers
or bakers bills, no wrangles with un-
trained servants, no fear of mother-in'
laws superior wisdom in household af-
fairs putting your verdant exper ence
to the blush. 1t is so pleasant to go off
just when you feel like it on little fly
ing trips to the country or a visit to
some friend without leaving a single
doubt or care behind. You can calcu-
late inst to a nicely what your expenses
amount To. and consequently indulge in
many and uniustiiable little extrava-
gances, which had been a great deal
better bestowed in a more useful cause.
And so at the end of the year, t ough
intensely weary of it all, you have drift
ed into til, irresponsible happy-go-
lucky kind Of existence, without any
NOR definite course of action than when
you first started. Your wife. deprived
OF al those charming little duties which
constitute The chief pleasure OF a mar
ried woman's life, those nice hit G plans
for beaut fving and embeilishing her
home, in which her faculties for the
comfort OF her surroundings find full
c,,,a h.. ai,la. ,,.a.~p ,part an1 let.
less, or she has found other interests
with which to occupy herself. At the
best it is a vague, purpoSless dragging
along of one day to another, in which
routine or method has no part. The
most important task of her life j. how
to Kill time most effectually, or to dis
pose of the day in the least tiresome
manner. Her proper vocation is mis-
sing, she knows no other duty than that
OF sci Indulgence, till finally when the
time arrives for you to give her a homo
she has lost all inclination for it, and
prefers 10 live on as she has begun.
Perhap after this the cause for so
many divorces is not far to seek. There
is no country IN the world where people
have SO lltt.e vener ,tion for their house
hold goods As in America. The most
luxurious and elegantly appointed
homes are broken up-generally for
the most trivial reason in the world
with the same cay facility as one would
fold up a tent without the least com.
junction in part ne with the thousand
and one familiar objects endeared by
long usage and association. Thus the
ruling power receives yearly fresh i'm.
and there Is no lear OF a decay of
its supremacy % long as people will not
iecur IN at the chief welfare of a
IA on 'opeGds upon The home influence
and a,-og ations-to the wife the home;
10 the N. a 4 tie tax of providln g
for j.. .ftie former sh rks Ter part of
ill., mlrr a' co tract, il is surely ex-
cu-I' III % In band to shirk his re-
ro I've wholesome influence
oI .u. q o. IONS. the necessary
e 80 jah'v respons bilities, the
tcno - tean of home ties and
dutlc hse uo uHrt in his life The
ed4el. So 20 O. hi ambit on, because
tie che N ont We thereto il m ssing.
lie Is q regular nomad with n regular
nomad idea OF life. It's obligations
aid 'u,i : press but lightly on him, and
lie can itch his tent wherever he
plecses. Hi, 'andlady is the only per-
so IA f.ars ecause on her depends
his ma'cri J ,omfort. That is why he
q eruatel "a o'es and %tlatters her,
neck n low h head under his coarse
a. lotist. ab I'll a,cedes to her ex-
tortIl a;r emand in raising him."
submit . 70 tn most humiliating imper.
thence fir m the servants, and in short
live. Il erprIual life on sufferance,
while vainly trying to delude himself
into a belief that he is n freedom man
and an independent citizen.-NeW
York Graphic.