The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1894-11-03
II CHERRY WIFE,.
She 10 . Source Of Great Comfort to An Az.
preciative Husband.

She 10 Q Source OF Great Comfort to An Ap.
preciativs Husband.
Men are more easily disheartened
than women in the always renewed
struggle of every day. The husband,
weary with the perplexities of bust
ness, disappointed where he had antic-
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 a long journey and were enter-
ing port. Without separating the diff
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 q kiss, the baby
will clap hands and coo and pat-a-cake,
and the wife-bless~ heri-who will pre-
side over the whole scene, 10 queen and
guardian angel.
A CHEEKY wife is not obtrusively and
unsympatheticslly mirthful when her
husband Is gloomy. She beguiles him
from his WEAKNESS and melancholy by
gentle words, tender caresses, Q COM
Portable chair. q 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 q letter she has re-
ceived, of q book she has read, is woven
into the brightness of her evening
chat. She is herself . winsome pic
ture, daintily neat and restful to tho
eye. The pride Of possession has been
merged in the mans consciousness into
the repose of entire and blessed conf
dence, 80 that the two little words my
wife" mean ON the husbands lip a.
much Of Heaven ~ Is over compressed
into q phrase Of human language.
OF course it Is all wrong when this
cheerful disposition, this beautiful al
the wife. A husband il ehurlish who
will not rsciprocate in kind when his
wife does her utmost to uplift him from
despondency, to all him with hope
when he 10 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 IL sver
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
unstintsd 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 10 the sweeter
and dearer II she is companied on the
journey by her openly devoted hus.
band.
Men would sometimes stare in as.
Constituent IL told how much their
wives set store by, to use an expressive
| provincialism, little tokens Of affection
and respectful attention before others.
"John," said q cherry wife one day, 'ia
always lovely to me when we arr
alone, but he snubs me thoughtlessly
in the presence Of his mother, and even
before our grown-up daughtera- II
there Is . difference of opinion, he
ranges himself on their side, not on
mine, dear fellow! He likes being in op
position in public"
In these circumstances It In difficult
for . wife to maintain her equanimity
of spirit and demeanor. She grow
silent and meditative, and ceases to b<
CHEEKY, and the whole family have theI
the sense of enduring N unmeritet
grievance. For the CHEEKY wife Is sci
dom suffered to take q vacation. II 1.
expected Of her that she will carry
light into all LIES shadowy places, and
to do her justice, abe seldom disap
points those who believe In her magi,
and dwell under her gracious scepter
-Harper's Bazaar.