Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-23
Household,

There can be no other correct way OF putting
it than to say that marriage is simply lottery
If a man gets the right kind of woman for
wife, his marriage will be success; otherwise
it will be failure. The same with woman.
II the man she marries is the right kind OF
man, her marriage will be a success-otherwise
a failure But write as a married man, and so
will not attempt to speak for the other sex,
Rv the term fright kind of a woman,' 1
can best make myself understood by taking my
own married life as an example.
have been married but little more than two
We rs NV income was, at the time OF my mar
rage small. Our marriage was not one OF those
long prOtracted bargains, or compromises, the
result of a long drawn-out and threadoare
courtship. We were married IN less imam a year
after we first met-and here is where the lot
terv'' comes in. You can't tell any more about
a woman before you are married to her than you
can Judge OF the quality of a pudding without
eating Of it. It is not necessary to eat the whole
of pudding in order TO judge OF Its quality; no
more is ii necessary to know woman htetime
in order to ascertain whether she is going to do
for life-companion.
We began married life by boarding. taking a
suit Of prettily furnished rooms. This we did
for over a year, and then, my income having
increased, we set up housekeeping in 4 modest,
though pretty way. And housekeeping we
shall always be. so long as we both shall live.
NV income is entirely from my pen, and aver
ages something like $1,000 year.
Here is what call the right kind of woman
turn over, with the exception of what re-
ouire for my current incidental expenses, all
money and checks, the latter Endorsed, to my
wife with the certain knowledge that the
money is handled and disposed of in the most
careful and judicious manner. My wife
although intellectual-I regard domestic ability
as one sign of Observation-Disclosures entirely for
our home and we do not keep girl. Ergo, our
home is always just as it should be cared for: by
q wife's hands. She has the entire charge Of all
the expenditures of our domestic economy. Not
a cent is wasted, not dollar injudiciously
spent.
necessary; and free from actual buying and pay
ing out I am left to devote nv mind to my
work without interruption, and thus to produce
the best results. l keep my wife informed as to
the progress and character of my work, as well
as of the future financial prospects resulting
from it. tell her of al, and keep back moth
ing, for what concerns me concerns her, and she
has as much right to know of it as I have. She
tells me how the state OF our finances is, and
thus we are each able to gauge our actions by the
other; and so our income is kept up to point
that causes no worriment on our part, while our
expenditures never equal or exceed our income.
But let none OF my readers suppose for q mo-
ment that our union is q mere partners hip
formed for business purposes only.
Let me take one day, for example-for one day
never yet left the house in the morning without
kissing my wife. We have never yet parted for
the day with cross word or angry feelings.
NV wife follows me to the door every morning,
and watches me out of sight. At night she
watches at the window for my return, and in the
summer usually meets me at the station. I
have never yet returned home after busy day s
work with my pen, and what brains have been
endowed with and been greeted with anything
but smile and kiss from my wife. She is
never fretful, never downcast, never anything
but womanly, wifely and helpful
| find the table set for tea, always just so
neatly and carefully. While do not lay such
great stress on having my meals at a certain
time some men do. my wife is seldom late
with either breakfast or tea. She is one of the
TO perfection, are served daintly and delicately,
| ere scarcely ever over-done and never under