The Forrest City times., 1894-04-20

More than that, she hardly ever gives advice at all unless she is first asked for it.
 Its not only in these two things; it is in plenty ot others" retorted Mark. going back to the old ground as ob- stinate people do. ''She always takes a different side from me, and always gets May to go with her and against me. Confound herr
 Now, Mark, don't be silly. Don't quarrel with May, too, and for no bet ter reason than that she is led, in many things, by her mother. Isn't it natural? l often think how unjust men are to mothers-in-law, as class. You took May from a home where she had lived for nineteen years, and in which the great authority in all mat ters. not only on dress and health, but everything, was her mother. She looked up to and believed in her mother, as all good children should. You and l looked up to our mother, and l hope Johnnie will look up to his. Now, though all families hold to the same general principles of morality. though all believe it is wrong to lie, or steal, or covet neighbo goods. there is the very greatest diversity of opinions between different families on the . minor points of life. This is natural It is natural. too, that a daughter should hold the same views as her moth- CT about these things, and that, even after marriage. the influence of the home atmosphere should hang about her. Why, you yourself, on some of | these very points, cling more obst nate ly to the traditions of our family than May does to hers"
 But" said Mark, stubbornly, "a | wife ought to adapt herself to her hus- bands tastes"
 Well, even if we grant that, we l must give her time. She can't undo | the work O nineteen years in few months or even year or two. In matters that involve no question of right or wrong it is generally wise for a wife to yield to her husband, if he in- sists on it. But to insist on minor things too much is neither wise nor fair. There ought to be mutual con- sessions; for matr;mony, like every thing else in life, is matter of give and take. But it is absurd to expect wife to remodel her whole character in couple of years The influence of her mother, of her own family traditions cannot be shaken off so easily; and husband is wrong to expect it. Yet this is what you mean, when you say that May always goes against you and takes her mothers side"
 ''So she does"
 'As fact, she does not" replied Mrs. Ward, stoutly, looking him reso- lutely in the face, ''and you know she doesn't You are angry, or you would not say it. May sometime es goes against you. and with her mother; but she much more often follows your taste, even when it is more than an open question. And what does it matter, after all? For I am talking of things indifferent in themselves A man ought 1 to be too much of man to want to tyrannize over his wife in little things of that kind"
 Mark began, by this time, to realize that he had the worst of the argument, so he made no reply, but stroked his mustache--a favorite trick with his kind in similar circumstances.
 ''The truth is" said his sister, laugh ingly, taking up her sewing again. which she had laid down in the heat of discussion, you are jealous That's the whole story. You want to monopolize every look. and word, and action. and even thought, of Mays. You want to be master, to the minutest detail | You are like most young hus- 1 bands in this, however; and will not be too hard on you. It is this very jealousy that is at the bottom of the general dislike on the part of new husbands towards mothers -in-law. 1 You lords of creation. even in matters which ought to be left entirely to the women, fret and champ the bit, when a woman comes in the nick of time to take things in hand. You fret and champ the more, when the woman Is the one most fit to interfere-a mother in-law. You don't like to play second fiddle," with two or three merry shakes of the head, ''eyen when it is necessary you should. You resent in- reference, and would resent it from any body. only you make the mothe--in- law the scape-goat.'
 Well" said. Mark, who had recov- cred his temper by this time, and who { had the good sense to acknowledge. at | least to himself. that he was in the wrong, "a woman, they say. will al- ways have the last word. So l let you have it"
 '*What a blessing, though" retorted Mrs. Ward, with another gay laugh, and another shake of the head, that it's sister, in this case, who will have | tba laS- word and not A mother-ip-