The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-02-16
MARRIED COMRADES,
A LETTER By n BRIGHT WRITER ON
THE SUBJECT.
Comradeship Between Husband and Wife
What Constitutes It-Some Women who
Are Their Husbands Comrades.

What sort Of wife makes good colnrade
for man? What constitutes a comradeship
between husband and wife?
will put the answer i'll anutshell presently,
but first let us look around at some women
who illustrate various phases OF that peculiar
and right relation
know a young woman who is superintend-
ing her brothers sheep ranch on the
plains. She is city girl, college gradu-
ate. a refined woman, but she mounts horse
at daybreaS, frequently, and rides over the
ranges to mako sure that the herders move the
flocks out Of the night corras betlmes. mat
woman is an ideal comradc for her brother she
shares his, life and pleasures and cares
know woman in Canada who, in true
comradeship shared with husband the
business reverses that shouldered them both
out of comfort i'll great city TO Degln
life anew in two-by-siX border village.
She makes that wretched place seem gay to
him because she fills his life with contentnlont
and with love Of her. On ono occasion she
had an awful fright and a narrow escape from
DEATH but she mado joke OF 1t because, she
says, she thought he had had trouble enough.
A band of Indians came i'll his absence to
rob the store and do murder. She ordered
them out, and actually pushed the leaders
as if they had boon wooden cigar signs
that she was showing out. Her childish
strength. her sudden action, her noun o,'l :
NAM
was too much for the Indian mind to compre-
bend, and she won the battle.
know woman Of famous blood who lives
on Murray Hill and leads a life of pleasure and
devotion to fashion. Tho last time that saw
her she was debating whether to go to that bed
which had only known her for five hours in
two nights, or to join her husband in dash on
horseback through the park. 1t was short
debate, and could only end in one way,
for she and her husband are like boy and girl
L. Oh of tGy M C
at swimming, yachting, shooting, billiards anu
at whatever either lihos-Whlch Is another way
of saying whatever both like
know q woman who is married to jolly
railroad official whose business depends
on a. great deal of staying out late
as convivaility is called. His wife goes
with him and dimes with the boys. l will
admit that she IS of q rare type, but she really
docs exist and she is known to hundreds. not
only here but in the west-a merry, healthy.
"good fellow of a woman always. II made
up my mind to do it." she says, ''as soon as |
found 1t was part of his life. saw that If
staid at home like other women L would see
little of him and that was not what married
hirl for"
/ know the wife of a very famous literary
man; sho is most intent upon bringing up her
children in tho way she would have them go.
Yet she is her husbands comrade. She seems
to share even her husbands inspirations, ana
whether size has nurposoly educated hefSeil III
hts lines Of study or whether, as they would say
down south, ''she just naturally likes what he
likes, do not know. Yet do know that she is
his guide philosopher and friend, that he con-
suits her about everything, and that half his
reputation ought to be hers. l have seen those
babies jeopardzing their lives ana the beauti-
full furniture Of that home, while she sat alb,
sorbed in the books in which she sought to find
what her husband needed to know. Hers and
his is an intellectual comradeship, but 1T is
perfect none the less.
All these cases seem very unlike one another
and yet through all OF them runs tho same an
chord. In that chord lies tho answer to the
question, "What Constitutes a comradeship be-
tween man and wife?''
It's love the two must be in love.
It's cheap wit which in every age since
love began has made out that love is dead OF
moth-eaten and laid away. 1t isn't. l kno"
plenty Of homes in which if 1 rang the dool
bell, and asked us love in?" the answer
would be eyes, indeed"
know plenty of houses of the other sort, OF
course.
There is nothing new about any sort OF com