San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-09-29

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evenings of your absence? Is she
not called the weaker vessel? Have
you not so treated her? III your
stronger nature Graves this out
side association to lean on why
not hers as we'll?
The husband who leaves his
wife to the consolation Of other
men is running an awful risk, for
he cannot tell the day nor the
hour in which destruction will
come upon his home and bury his
peace and his honor and his pride
in a grave that will never close. 1t
is idle to chop logic here. This is
too grave a question to be dismiss.
ed with a sheer. Too fatal copse-
quences linger around the hearth
stone of conjugal neglect, and a
husbands infidelities and negli-
gence ere the fruitful seed from
which the harvest of many q
wife's ruin has been grown.
The pathway Of domestic life
is strewn with wrecks, and
the sunken rock on which the
home craft foundered and sunk in
nine cases out Of ten has been that
Of neglect Of the home by the
husband, thus leaving the wife to
find her companionship In the
society of others who taught her
to follow in the way Of her hus-
bands feet.
But, beloved, we are persuaded
better things concerning you,
and things that accompany home
salvation though we thus speak.
Now on the threshold of life
is the time to form char
acter.. Form your domestic
lives at the outset. Live hon.
estly with each other and life
will be full of the sweetness of
home gladness and content. Study
together as man and wife
| to understand the mutual life
you would lead and then set about
to frame your lines accordingly.
You have the making or marring
of all your future in your own
hands. See that the "better or
worse" is made better instead Of
worse and the result will justify
all the labor Of the attempt. De-
eide early what your separate rights
are and do not trespass on those Of
the other. This is important.
No one is hero to his valet. There
are sore spots in every life, weak
nesses in every character. The
true husband soon comes to recog-
nize these and avoid them. He
cherishes the wife Of his selection
and recognizes her right to her
own individualisms Of character
and speech and is not constantly
referring to them in bantering
way. The wise wife notes the
foibles of her husband only to steer
Of stumbling over them, recog-
nizing them as inherent and not to
be made subject Of contention. The
corner of the housetop is preferred
by the average man, if there is
peace there, to a wide house with
a brawling woman. The right of
the husband to peace in his house
is to be conceded. The nagging
wife is the active spirit of discord
in the home as surely as the I'M
faithful husband.
Outside OF the rights that each
enjoy and are to be permitted to
exercise without friction or con-
troversy, there are rights that the
children have to a decent home
and an inheritance Of affectionate-
ness. Neither father or mother
: has a right to defraud the child
out of this possession Of its young
= life. For your children's sake,
II not for your own, make
r the path Of your home life not
, only endursble but a positive de-
0 light. Earth has no word better,
q purer, sweeter, more suggestive OF
o real content and peace and good
! than Home. Every child on earth
r has a right to a home. Do not de-
, prive your own flesh and blood of
4 their rights in a vain contention