Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-06-27
ABOUT HUSBANDS.
A Circle OF Matrons Air Their Views Up
on the Subject.

There is but one thing that young
woman who has but recently gone and
| gotten herself married should be adj.
vised against; that is, any sentimental
effusiveness upon conjugal happiness
in the presence of women who have
been wed some time, says Maude An
drews in the Atlanta Constitution. No
matter how happily mated these danes
may be, they feel in duty bound to
snub any expression of faith and con-
tentment on the part of the bride of n
few weeks. They like to tell pleasant
little stories concerning the fidelity
of implicitly trusted husbands; their
fondness for night keys, club suppers.
cards; their peculiar exactions, eccen-
! tricities, etc.
/ CHANGED the other day to drop in
upon circle of those matrons when a
two weeks bride called. The subject
of marriage was brought up, and the
bride ventured to assert that it was not
always failure.
Then there was an expressive shrug
and a cynical smile from her listeners,
one of whom said
"Oh, but you've only been married
a short while. It's all very pretty now,
if it would only last"
We'll" hopefully, sit has lasted
with my mother and father some TWEEN
ty-odd years"
"It's an inheritance, then. Why, L
wish I'd inherited a peculiarly of that
kind from my parents"
II think American women are more
to be enved than any wives on EARTH"
said another. II had friend who
said she never knew what happiness
was until she married an American
Her first husband was a Spanard, who
loved her madly. and her life was in
danger from his jealousy. The second
was an Englishman, SO cold and selfish
that she'd rather have had him kill her
than live with him. The third was an
American, neither warm nor cold, aud
he gave her as much money as she
wanted and let her do as she pleased"
Now, that's my idea of happiness!"
said a pretty young matron. What
could pretty young woman want
more then n plenty of liberty and q
plenty of money" What is the jealous
love of a Spaniard beside shekels and
freedomp"
II don't believe in jealous husbands"
said woman whose husband might
have been SO with some cause. VERY
Jealous men are apt TO be selfish. They
value you not for what you are, but for
what you are estimated to be by 9TH
ers. Such men need a constant stimu-
LIANT to their affections,
What sort of husbands do you all
believe imp" exclaimed the newly made
matron, desperately.
"For my part" replied a careful
matron with several daughters to mar
ry, II should prefer widower, we'll
off, and with no children, of course.
He should be about 40 yeers old, and
must have been devoted husband to-
his first wife. Such man has lived
over the vagaries of youth. He has
sowed wild oats and anchored stead
tasty his ship of love until it was
blown away by the wind of eternity
He has known life's greatest joys and
deepest sorrows. He knows how to
appreciate profoundly the love of a.
woman, and having learned many les
sons in human nature he will neither
be too exacting nor uncomprehending
of her little fancies and foibles. But
I'd rather have the first love of man.
even if it we're exacting, and even it
we didn't always understand each 9TH
er. should want to feel that had.
been the first to share his heart and
life"
Il believe widower Of 40 is prefer
able to bachelor of the same age"
said one who had reason TO know.
People talk of its being better to be
an old mans darling than young
mans slave, but believe that the wo-
men who marry old bachelors are the
worst slaves on earth. Then there are
other objections besides unreasoning
selfshness TO unmarried men from 40
on. Such individuals seldom strike a.
happy mean. They are either prudes
or roues. Ii the former, they are fixed
in their prim, old-maidish habits; il
the latter they have a past that viii
not bear investigation.
people are always talking of the
horror of marrying old maids, and I
can't see why there isn't more said con.
corning the horror of marrying old
bachelors men whose sentiments have
generally soured, whose tastes and
habits have settled into selfish narrow
lives, who have lived so long without
the companionship of women that they
can't understand or enjoy their natures
when they get married. Old-bacheloi
husbands are crusty, suspicious
thing that should cause the women who
have wed them to be pitied."
Here the party was interrupted by
the entrance of the hostess husband,
and the just-married young woman
went to her home, doubtless with
perturbed spirit. She has lifetime
to moralize upon matrimony, and per.
haps she can solve the riddle at the
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