Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-07-27

other.
They don't talk much, do they?
They haven't anything to talk about.
Why not?
Well, she talks to her friends, and he
talks to his; and they have gradually
settled into the belief that husbands
and wives don't have to talk to each
other.
Is it that they are uncongenialP
She would not say so.
But they were devoted loversP
Devoted.
Couldn't stay away from each other
minute?
Not unless they were perfectly miser-
able.
They had plenty to talk about then?
Not plenty in quantity, but in quail
Nv: the subject Is one that stands an
Infinite amount of talking under fav-
oring conditions.
Love, presume?
OF course.
Why don't they talk 1t nowP
They're married.
Don't married people talk lover
They say it is so silly.
Don't you suppose they thought OF
this when they were,courtingP
Hardly; courtship is not time OF
thought for ones future beyond the
wedding day.
People make mistakes in that, don't
they?
Yes, indeed.
But these two were so young?
That's one OF the mistakes.
Should she have waited?
AT least five years. A woman can
do vast deal OF beneficial thinking in
five years at that period of her life.
Would she have thought while she
waited?
The years compel 1t; for years bring
experience, and experience is school
in which even fools must learn.
Don't people become SET In their ways
If they wait too long?
II they do, it is not nearly so bad as
getting set in each others ways, and
going about together as one person, al
ways lonely unless that person have
company.
Some wopen have congenial hus-
bands, don't they?
Yes. but not as the result OF youthful
marriage. prompted by wild, tumultu-
Gus, absorbing, ineffable, nnalteraole
love, such as summer novels are loaded
with.
What do you expect them to haVeP
Just that.
Is there remedy?
Yes, they should be sensible.
Would so many marry IL they were?
No. but there would be happier, at
least pleasanter, marriages. 1t isn't
quantity so much as quality that we
need 10 this business.
Shouldn't wives and husbands be
lovers?
Better to be friends and companions.
Why?
Because lovers quarrel and are silly;
they neglect forbearsnce, and depend
upon forgiveness; they wound and count
the healing as atonement; they act first
and think afterward. Friends don't do
that: they forbear so they need not for
give; they make no wounds to heal; they
think before they act In other words
they are rational beings.
But cold aud unfeeling?
Not at all; for friendship Is more en-
during than love, as love is generally
practised.
Don't most women say they prefer to
quarrel and make up?
Most women say great many things
they are sorry for.
Is marriage failure?
Like every other human affair 1t Is, II
i'm properly managed.
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losers?
Nlnety-nine per cent. Of them are.
Why?
Because they are women.
What are they going to do about II?
Nothing, l fancy. They are used
to it.
Couldn't they do something?
Certainly, but not until they have IN
educated themselves OF the fallacy that
a woman must marry, just because she
thinks she is in love, and knows she
could not exist two minutes without her
dear one; or until she has unlearned
that other iallacy that any husband is
better than no husband.
Then being an old maid is not the
worst thing 10 the UsrldP
Ask this wife we are talking about,
and hear what she says.
And yet this is not an unhappy wife?
Certainly not; she has only learned
that the realization is not what the ro-
nance was.
Is IL ever so?
Very nearly; II the romance be grown
| In soil OF sense.
Is this wife mother?
She has three pretty children.
An. then she is happy 10 them?
Yes: but happy mothers are not al
ways happy wives.
Are there such women?
Plenty OF them, and because there
are there should be mole.
Mistakes must occur.
Yes. They should serve as danger
signals.
Don't they?
Do they? Look around upon the
wreckage and see.
Are the women to blame?
II the women would not the men
= could nok.
Will II evet be different?
Yes. IN HeaFen, where there Is no
marrying Of giving IN marriage.
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