San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-29
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, is
PERSONAL RIGHTS.

husbands rights, from last Sun
days discourse, the LIGHT preach
er remarks:
Your wife was not taken from
your head to rule over you, nor
from your feet to be trodden under
by you, but from your side, to be
your equal and from near your
heart, that you might cherish and
love her. This is the meat in the
fable of the creation of Adam and
Eve. Your home life is partner
ship, the home department hers,
the business department yours.
These are not antagonistic the one
to the other, but they are intended
to be harmonized in the mutual
arrangements of life. Treat your
wife as though she had sense and
she will astonish you with her in
sight into affairs, but if she can
not, then 40 your part, tell her
how things are and stand on the
responsibility of your act. In re-
hrding your personal rights as a
husband, remember that your wife
9 is part of yourself. She has, how
ever, no more right to NEEDLE in
your counting room or shop than
you have in her dining hall, nurse
ry or kitchen. There is division
of labor, although no division of
interest.
Your personal right to take the
headship of the family on all occa-
sions when others are sharers of
,ysohfs. hospitality is unquestioned,
but as the true>wife loves to honor
the husband, the true husband
places his wife at the head of his
house in order that all who enter
there may givl her the place of
preference, and hly honor her the
more by seein in what high re-
gard she is hel1b him. 1t is on
ly the legal right of the husband
that is absolutely asserted. His
real right depends upon whom he
is and whom his wife is. "The
gray mare is often the better
HORSE" but this does not change
the essential facts as to their legal
relations, but it does make all the
difference in the world as to the
arranging of the work and the dis
position of home and business af-
fairs.
The legal rights of the husband
cover everything, but it is the
province of the husband to stand
in the stead of the wife and guard
her rights against the world. None
the less, then, is it his place in
equity to stand in the place of the
wife and guard her interests
against his own ingram selfishness
Here is where the trouble comes
in. There are thousands of hus
bands who will fight to defend the
rights of their wives against every
and all assault, except that which
comes from them as husbands, ant
this is the very defense that mos
women need, if needing any. Thu
woman who is defended agains
any injustice or wrong that ma.
come to her through her husband
is defended against all possible
ills. 1t is for this defense that tn
LIGHt preacher pleads.
You have no more rights to tn
good things of this world than TIL
little woman has whom you hav
lowered with all your world.
goods in the solemn asserveration
of your marriage VOWS. Wha
right do you possess in equity o
manliness TO put the household eA
penses on a certain economical
footing on account of, as you allegC
business necessities, and the
spend more on yourself than 20
allow for the expenses of your wifi
and her whole household mainter
anee? What business have you t
s.u1nsa chaupa Ene for other
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