The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1895-11-30
THE BEST FRIEND
A Mans Wife or Sister at
Home.
THEY MAY FORM THEIR CLUBS
If the Men Go to Theirs Checkers
and Religion at Home Discussed
by the JuntO Club.
THEY MAY FORM THEIR CLUBS

He lOllOWlHS is u portion OF tne CON-
versatlon that took place around the
Junto Club table at the last meeting. All
the members were in Z. talking mood, sc
the privileges of the club were not mo-
nopolized as is occasionally the case:
well, boys, what are we coming to;
l hear the ladies are intending to organ
ize social club with no men admitted
They say it is to be an always open club
and there'll be rooms better furnished
than the men have in their club. Game
rooms, library baths, gymnasium, ban
quet hail. and all that sort of thing, with
perhaps a small room off the library
where members can take their friends
for a social chat just as the men do-only
they won't have jug under the sink "
Where do they get their money to do
all this with?"
who are to be the leaders?"
Il don't believe the ladies of Astoria
are thinking of anything of the kind"
"They have as much right to form So
cial clubs as we men have, and 1 for one
would not censure them, for it must be
awfully lonesome staying at home while
their husbands, fathers, and brothers are
out enjoying themselves"
II suppose they get their money from
their husbands. Surely no husband who
really loved his wife and desired to make
life pleasant for her would spend fifty
or more dollars on a club for himself
without at the same time handing his
wife an equal amount to spend for her
own enjoyment. / am not a married man.
but it seems to me that a married man
would feel unhappy in the enjoyment OF
NaIn Nl...N L.
cipate in Also"
That is the way all men think before
they get married but they nearly all
change their minds after a year or two"
We'll, 1t ought to be so, anyway. If
l were a woman I'd not marry any man
unless he'd make a written promise to
share all mis- pleasures with me-
i've heard lots of young ladies say
that, and 1 suppose they will think that
before they come to think seriously of
marrying. but they seem to forget IT,"
But l feel sorry for the poor women
that have to stay at home alone thess
winter niglrs while their husbands are
out enjoying the company of some Jolly
good fellows It's not right"
That is true as preaching"
ut may seem so to you single men,
You find it pleasant to call on some fine
young lady and spend an evening in her
parlor, so you think 1t is just as pleasant
for a man to spend every evening in tho
year in his own parlor, talking with his
wife What, pray would you find to
talk about?"
"The same things you discuss with your
friends"
Politics religion, science, business, phil
osophy, books"
you might tell her humorous stories,
as you do your friends"
Yes, or play games with her. Just
take a checker or chess board, a box of
dominoes or something of that kind home
some evening and ask her If she wouldn't
like to play with you. The happiest
couple | ever saw had been married ten
years and yet they'd sit on the floor and
play marbles just like children. That is
the ideal married couple in my opin. on"
But suppose your wife had very little.
education and had not read enough to
enable her to talk intelligently, on such
subjects as you named"
IF that be the case it is your own
fault. If you had talked with her on
these subjects frequently, she would be
interested in them and would read more.
How many of your male friends do you
suppose would keep read up on political
topics 10 they never had occasion to talk
on such matters? None of them. And
the same is true of religious topics. II
you have new ideas in theology you are
always ready to discuss them with your
friends but never mention them to the
best friend you'll ever find-your wife"
That's so. 1 have often wond red
why so many men who are so liberal
minded on religion have wives that are
stil following the old and unsupported
creeds. l suppose it is just because .he
men never coniide their religious beliefs
to their wives.
But like that idea of games better
than these discussions of politics and re-
ligion When / was a boy I could spend
a whole day over a checker board and
I'm going to get a board tomorrow and
play with my wife in the evening and let
you know how it works"
well, my wife believes in that old doc
trine of eternal torture as a punishment
for the wicked-a lake Of fire. and so
forth, and I'm going to tell her what l
think along that line and wen see how
this plan of a man talking on such sub
iects to his own wife viii work out in
practice"
but how about this ladies' club?"
Where are their club rooms?"
'They haven't organized yet ana per.
haps they won't. There'll be no need OF
It if all the men stay at home in the
evening and entertain their wives"
"Rut now you single men tell us mar
ried men to stay at home and entertain
our wives, want to know how It would
be for some Of you to stay at home and
entertain your sisters"
There is another man comes to enter
tain my sister,
"And mine, too"
'I'l try entertaining my sister tonor-
row night, but have some other fellows
sister TO entertain two evenings in the
week"
Suppose we adjourn this club perma-