St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-17
TALKS TO HUSBANDS.

Some women complain that they are
tired Of being advised, and wish that
some one would turn their attention in
this matter to the husbands a while.
And Aunt Polly, who is supposed, by
her admirers. to be capable of giving
advice on many subjects, has been asked
to try her hand on the men. My dear
boys, it is because L am so fond of you
that accept the request. L know that
you all mean well, but you are a bit
thoughtless and forget many little
things that are of mighty consequence
in the lives of loving and sensitive
women. Do You remember how par
ticuiarlY nice you used to be when you
were courting-good, old-fasEioned
Word-the little woman who is now the
mistress of your house. and the mother
of your children She supposed that
that was your normal condition.
not knowing that for the time
you were transformed by the power of
love, the power that has made and rules
the world. You used to remember all
her little tastes, to bring her a box of
htr iaVOrlte sweets, or book she had
expressed wish for, or a song that
you thought suited her voice. or a
bunch OF t1OwerS, your faYOriteS. for her
to wear. Then, when YOU took her ont
you showed in every look that Won were
proud of the lady whose loyal knight
your were, and you praised her pretty
gown, and told her what a lovely line
her hair made as it waved across her
white forehead and behind her delicate
ear, and you noticed, and told her so
that she had slender ankle and wrist
sure sign of good blOod-and a prettv
loot and hand, and you were proud, and
SAID II, to see your ring gliSteD on her
flnger. In short, you tried to be lust as
lov.y, just as near an Ideal man as yOur
conception of that ideal Would LET Won
be; you spent! eYery moment in her com
pany that you could spare from the
more practical business of making a
living. And she, why she thought that
she had found that creature that the
pSalmiSt had told her to mark, the ner-
feet man, and dreamed dreams when
you were gone and she laid her head on
her pillow. of the home that YOUR feryid
words had pictured, that home where
you would be ever by her side. to read
to her while she stitched on some bits of
sewing, or as she lay on the couch rest
ing; and she thought of all the pretty
dresses IN her rousseau, and of how she
would wear them to please you, and of
al that she would do to make that home
the bit OF heaven on earth that Won
thought it would be, and there was no
helghth OF service or self-sacrifice that
she would not reach for YOU. Well Won
remember the wedding day, and how
like an angel she looked in her white
dress and you felt for the first time the
touch OF your Wife'S hand OIL your arm.
and realized family the beauty and
mystery and majesty of marriage. and
the awful responsibility OF taking the
life OF another human being into your
Keeping. Then came the home. 1t was
all that your fancy had painted if. but
by and by, because you are human. Won
began to tire little of it. Then Won
began to spend your evenings out. Per-
maps she was little unreasonable about
IL, ana you resented her remarks. and sO
the trouble began. Now if YOU had
asked her occasionally to go about with
you In chummy way that trouble
would have been avoided You would
not have liked her to go off nights with
even her old girl friends and leave YOU
at home. Then there is CUES
tiOh' OuC lLdI IL the real truth
were told, IS really at the bottom
OF hlne-teenlhS OF the quarrels be-
tween MAJ and wife, and that is
the money question. Just think
for little, Of the situation. Your wife
has gone into partnership in when
she puts her whole time, her life. ali
that she is or is ever likely to be. her
chance for possible career, her chance
Tor happlness,a AS her share of the mutual
capital. For. if she is the ideal wife
and mother that you wish her to be. if
she is the model housekeeper and home
maker that her love for and pride i'm You
lmpels her to be, she has no time for
anything else. For the little moments
that she can call her own must be spent
in reading or sOGPe such thing, to enable
her to be all these things. You put into
the partnership your hopes of happy
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