Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-01-12
She Earned a Happy Home.

Women must learn to preach. They must
learn that while men have hearts as soft rs
their own, they carry them between shells as
an oyster does his whole incorporation and
that shell closes as surely upon a sermon as
the other kind does on q stick. We all know
how women are bound to marry men that
they do not really approve of Some women
do this out of an evangelical missionary spirit
others do so for lack of anything more angelic
The ones who marry the last man, the only
man, are apt to get along better in reformar
tory work than the missionaries. Why9 Be
cause they preach less.
A worthy example of this reformatory
principle Of non-preachment now adorns New
York society. A very pretty, clever woman
was asked by man about town to marry
him. She was a girl who had had but q
scant supply of those aids TO matrimony
which surround rich girl, and she had
never had an offer that was SO eligible from
worldly point of view. She summed
tho situation up and accepted him
When asked her reasons by man
who was closer confdant than any
woman could have been to her curious
nature, she put her summing up In words:
"That man has run his race 1 believe he Is
q clear minded man, and that he has seen
enough of bad women and gay life to appre-
ciate decent wife and tempting home. He
drinks more or less, l know; but 1t Is custom
more than habit. / know he is the soul of
honor In business and / do not believe that
any man who lives up to his contracts In q
business way Is going to break contract
with the woman he loves. He loves me;
am fond Of him; and am going to be a wife
to be envied by every mothers girl who is
trotting Off done up In rose color with beard
less boys who have all their fun vet to
come
She married him three years ago, and she
laid out q time table that was worthy Of an
artist. She promised herself FIVE things: To
be non-demonstrative at breakfast, to be
bright and jolly at dinner, to be loving and
babyish after dinner; not to have a first
squabble, and never to preach at him, but at
the things he did
Experience has taught every clever woman
the value of these first four resolves, but her
Interpretation of the preaching clause was
unique. Her treatment Of the drinking
question was this: She didn't say twas
wicked, or horrid. or brutal She simply
laughed at men who liked to have their
mouths taste nasty in the morning, and who
didn't know 1t was as pleasant for q woman
TO hiss a nice clean man as 1t was for man
TO kiss q sweet mouthed woman To this she
would now and again add wide eyed wonder
that man could find it a pleasure to make
himself feel dizzy and i'll Just for the sake of
saying idiotic things at night and feeling III
and disagreeable in the morning.
What was the RESULT She was 30 clever
and amiable about it that the man never once
gave her the credit Of thinking him anything
but perfection. He loved her and was proud
Of her, and no knew enough Of the ways Of
this wicked world TO be anxious to be the one
man In it to her. The result, friends, is that
this man Is the most temperate man who ever
stopped this side Of being Prohibitionist;
that he swears by the goodness Of that clever
wife Of his aud that she Is ono Of the hap
pest women who ever had the sense to appre
ciate her happiness when she found IT.
Frank Leslie's Weekly