The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-08-30
THE CHEEKY WIFE.
She Is Source of Great Comfort to An P
preciative Husband.

She Is Source of Great Comfort oo An aF
preciative Husband.
Men are more easily disheartened
than women in the always renewed
struggle of every day. The husband
weary with the perpleXities OF busl-
ness, disappointed where he had ante
ipated success, and at the end together
of strength and patience, looks for
ward eagerly to the nightly home
coming.
As he treads quickly along the famil-
lar street. runs up his own steps, turns
his own latch key, it is as if he had
been on long journey and were enter
ing port. Without separating the ol1-
ferent component parts of his pleasure
he feels beforehand the thrill of the
greeting he will receive from wife and
children. The little lad will rush to
meet him, the pretty daughter Will
hold up her face for kiss, the baby
will clap hands and COO and pat-a-cake,
and the wife-bless her!-who will pre-
side over the whole scene, is queen and
guardian angel.
A CHEEKY wife is not obtrusively and
unsympathetically mirthful when her
husband is gloomy She beguiles HIM
from his WEAKNESS and melancholy by
gentle words, tender caresses, com
Portable chair, good dinner. She has
something entertaining to relate, for
variety of delightful incidents make up
the day for her, while the man she
loves is in the toiling, moiling world
down town. Something of visitors, OF
the children, of letter she has re-
ceived, of a book she has read, is woven
into the brightness of her evening
chat. She is herself winsome pic
ture, daintily neat and restful to the
eye. The pride of possession has been
merged in the mans consciousness into
the repose of entire and blessed conf
dence, so that the two little words my
wife" mean on the husbands lip as
much of Heaven as is ever compressed
into phrase of human language.
Of course it is all wrong when this
cheerful disposition, this beautiful al
truism, is wholly the endowment OF
the wife. A husband is churlish who
will not reciprocate in kind when his
wife does her utmost to uplift him from
dependency, to fill him with hope
when he is downcast, to cheat him OF
fear and foreboding. She shows him
that she believes in his pluck, his abil-
ity. his resources, and thus she gives
him faith in himself-an immense re-
enforcement in the battle which is ever
surging around him.
To her, this CHEEKY being, doing an
gels work in the homely sphere of her
consecrated wifehood, the husband
should offer the tribute of his evident
appreciation.
Admiration is her due, and praise and
unstinted love. Compliment and cour-
tesy, small surprises of gift and grace
full acts of daily consideration, enable
her to keep the sunshine in her own
soul. The CHEEKY wife is the sweeter
and dearer if she is companied on the
journey by her openly devoted hus-
| band.
Men would sometimes stare in as
| constituent if told how much their
wives set store by, to use an expressive
provincialism, little tokens of affection
and respectful attention before others.
John" said cherry wife one day, lis
always lovely to me when we are
alone, but he snubs me thoughtlessly
in the presence of his mother, and even
before our grown-up daughters. II
there is a difference of opinion, he
ranges himself on their side, not on
mine, dear fellow! He likes being in OPP
position in public"
In these circumstances it is difficult
for wife to maintain her equanimity
of spirit and demeanor. She grows
silent and meditative, and ceases to be
CHEEKY, and the whole family have Their
the sense of enduring an unmeritec
grievance. For the CHEEKY wife is sci
dom suffered to take a vacation. 1t il
expected of her that she will carry
light into all life's shadowy places, and
to do her justice, she seldom disap
points those who believe in her magic
and dwell under her gracious scepter
-Harper's Bazaar
GLASS is NEGLECTED.