San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-02-16
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NOES iC Pay 10 Keep Finding Fault
Writ en- for the LIGHT;l
The other day was calling in the
house of q neighbor that lately moved
into Blank street. AS / opened the
door she was in the midst of q scold-
Ing which she was giving her little
girl. She knew / heard her. The
door stood partly open and l had to
knock repeatedly before she heard
me- made no remark, but q guilty
heart needs no accusor.
~ didn't used to be So" she said
by way of apology. "WheD L was .
girl didn't do SO, but now / seem W
be on edge all the time. My husband
vexes me. He would sour a saint
and the children are SO cross / jus t
can't stand It," and the tears came
dangerously near overlooking.
"My husband don't stay at home
nights. He goes to the lodge or some
where and I have to stay alone and
mind the children, and just think
its mean, and the children are just
awful. They would try the patience
OF saint"
looked at her, then at her three
beautiful little children, q boy ten
yes rs old, dear little girl about six
and as sweet little baby boy as ever
struggled 10 learn to walk and talk,
and wondered what the trouble was.
I looked at her beautiful hen 9 with
everything needful for her happiness
and / pittied her. rememered that
John had told me that he had met
her husband and found him one OF
the pleasan test men he had ever met.
Not q "hail fellow we'll met" but q
quiet, pleasant man, with smile for
every body, and my heart went out in
sympathy for her.
What was the trouble.
What could be done.
Here was q woman who had all
that she could justly wish for, with
her back bending with load that sb 70
was industriously putting on her own
shoulders and her forehead fast 40.
cumulating crowsfeet instead Of
smiles. AT the risk of her enmity /
decided to have talk with her and
give her piece OF my mind; not
big piece but just q moderate rigid
piece that thought would do her
good.
"What makes your husband 20 out
evenings?" Iasked.
"Oh, guess Its pure cussedness; ]
guess it's the nature of man to go out
nights and make his wife as unhappy
as ne can. It's just shame the way
men do" she replied.
"All men don't do So" / replied
very POSITIVELY.
ooh well, may be you are tied to q
saint; 1 wasn't SO lucky she re-
piled.
I was mad. f
WANTED to tell her what thought
of her and leave. but restrained my
self.
mo, he Is an average man, neither
better or worse than other men, but /
take some credit to myself. 1 have
taken pains to study him. I know
his likes and dislikes, and 1 take
pains not to give him occasions to be
coarse. know that when he comes
home from work, he Is tired and
coarse, and that to have the table set
in a way that he likes, and dish
prepared in way that suits him,
will go long ways toward smooth.
ing the wrinkles out of his face and
the links out of his temper, and 1
consider that it is part of my work
to help make his life pleasant"
"Well | wouldn't bother in no such
way for any mau. He wouldn't ap-
preciate it II did. don't believe In
making a slave of myseifin that way"
she replied with toss of her head.
~ am not so mucn of a slave as you
are, 1 replied. "Your hus band leav6s
home as he can and leaves you alone
to take care of the children, and you
can't get away If You want to ever so
bad; while mine stays at home and
helps care for the children, and we
spend a pleasant evening together, or
We go out together to spend an even
ing at the house of a friend or at the
tbeater If we wish. How long is Ii
| since you got away from your slavery
to visit aneighbors or attend the thea
ter?"
'"Theater, never get away from
home at all to attend theater or any
thing else, and 1 am getting so dis
couraged that / don't care much
whether 1 ever go again"
She couldn't see that by nugging
her husband so that she was glad to
get Out of hearing, he was making q
slave and drudge of herself. Her hus-
band would try to make her happy If
she would allow him to.
| On the other hand there are hus-
bands that are as bad. They are al
ways coarse and snappish, and try as
hard as they can their wives cannot
| get pleasant word from them.
What can be done In such ease?
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