The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-08-12
THE WIFE
That Is to Say, a Woman, Who Is
Married.

Married.
DO you see the woman
| do see the woman.
Who is she7
She is the wife Of the man with her.
Are all women wivesp
They all want to be.
Why1
] give it up.
The Bible says something about it,
doesn't it3
Yes, but since the Bible We have
gone ahead.
Howp
Education.
Isn't education blessing if you
have lt1
That depends
There is, then, education and edu-
cation?
Most distnctively.
How long has this woman been
married.
Ten years.
How old is she now1
Twenty. nine.
She was married at nineteen, then2
Yes, and her husband was twenty
three.
Is she happily married.
Oh, she seems to get along very
comfortably with her husband.
They appear to be tired of each
other
No, not that they are used to each
other.
They don't talk much, do they2
They haven't anything to talk about.
Why not1
Well, she talks to her friends, and he
talks to his and they have gradually
settled into the belief that husbands
and wives do not have to talk to each
other.
Is it that they are uncongenial
She would not say so.
But they we're devoted lovers
Devoted.
Couldn't stay away from each other
minutep
Not unless they we're perfectly miser-
able.
They had plenty to talk about then ?
Not plenty in quantity, but in
quality the subject is one that stands
an infinite amount of talking under
favoring conditions.
Love, | presume
OF course.
Why don't they talk it now3
They're married.
Don't married people talk love9
They say it is SO silly.
Don't you suppose they thought of
this when they were courting2
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 this two were SO young?
That's one of the mistakes.
Should she have waited1
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 it for years bring
experience, and experience is schoo
in which even fools must learn.
Don't people become set in theil
ways if they wait too long?
If they do, it is not nearly so bad as
getting set in each others ways, ano
going about together as one person
always lonely unless that person have
company.
Some women have congenial hus
bands, haven't they?
Yes, but not as the result of youth
full marriage, prompted by a wild
tumultuous, absorbing, inefable, un
alterable love, such as summer novel.
are loaded with
What do you expect them to have
Just that
Is there remedy?
Yes, they should be sensible.
Would so many marry If they were
No, but there would be happier, a
least pleasanter, marriages. 1t ISM
quantity SO much as quality that VT
need in this business.
Shouldn't wives and husbands bt
lovers?
Better to be friends and companions
Why7
Because lovers quarrel and are silly
they neglect forbearance, and depend
upon forgiveness; they wound ant
count the healing as atonement; the
act first and think afterward. Friend
don't do that; they forbear so the
need not forgive; they make no wound
to heal; they think before they act. Ii
other words, they are rational beings
But cold and unfeeling2
Not at all; for friendship is NOR
enduring than love, as love is general
practiced,
DON'T most women say they prefe
to quarrel and make up?
Most women say great many thing
they are sorry for
Is marriage failure?
Like every other human affair il