St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-27
MARITAL AMENITIES.
Aunt Polly Points Out Incl
dents That Had Better
Be FoPsWopn.
Little Faults Should Not Be
Made Subject Of Pub
lie Gossip.
The May-Day Reception at the
Commercial Club a So
cial Success.
Just a Trile Of Business Adds
Test to the Neat Enter
tainment.

There are some things that give me
| the worst kind of heartache, and one
of those things is the way some young
married people treat each other in COM
pany. You have all heard and seen
these things, too, my dears, and ask
you could anything be in worse taste
than for a man and woman who have
taken the solemn marriage VOWS on
their lips to tell in company of each
others faults. True, it is always done
in a Joking Way; but one feels that
there is a substratum of truth under
| the seeming fun-enough truth to make
the words sting often-and if you are at
all observant you can see the flush on
the cheek or the startled look in the eye
that tells that the shaft has struck a
tender point. | suppose that as long as
human beings are what they are, there
will be faults and failingS to be dlscov-
cred in those who have elected to walk
the long path together. The discovery
of these faults is bitter enough without
the added sting of having them made
the subject of remark.
Marriage is a serious and a sacred
thing, involving many more lives than
Just the two who stand for while at
least at the opening of ii new and beau
tiful world. Love is the soul of life,
the spirit that beauties and uplifts all
things till the commOneSt duties become
holy and burdensome things light; but
love is tender plant and easily wound
ed. and often bleedS TO death from these
tiny stabs that are thoughtlessly given.
How can a woman expect man to love
her if she wounds the strongest senti-
ment Of his being. strongest. that is, II
he is the sort of man that we merely
women love, his pride in himself, his
self-respect. He knows that he has
faults. Indeed, am sure that he told
you so before he put the ring into the
hands of the minister who married you,
and the minister transferred it to you
while you promised to cherish the giver.
DO you call it cheriShing him to tell of
his faults TO others?
Did you ever hear the story of the
couple who agreed to tell each other of
any fault they might discover One day
the husband thought it time to begin.
and mentioned number of things he
considered faults in his wife. ''NoW
it's your turn" he said.
MY own dear husband. if YOU have
shown any faults since we were mar
ried, love hides them ALL" she said.
DO you think he ever tried that thing
again? And how can a woman love a
man who is willing to make her the
sport OF their friends, for be sure there
are always disagreeble and thoughtless
people enough in every company, or
among ones neighbors, to take pleasure
in the first signs that two people who
have felt that they were exceptions to the
rule Of unhappiness III the world were
coming down from their heaven to the
sad realities of life. Every one of these
foolish words wounds her heart and her
pride. You do not want shell for a
wife, know, my dear boy, one whose
love. which is the spring of her life, is
dead. She may look and seem the same
to other people after her love is dead.
but she will not to you. That undefina-
bic something that makes the lndiyid-
ual we see in every eye is not more
subtle than the delicate spirit of love.
Do you want to look into her eyes and
miss it? You surely will if you let the
llfe-0lood out of her love by these little
stlletto pricks of foolish words about her
faults. DON'T, pray you, my dears,
don't laugh at each other before folks.
AUNT POLLY.