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

dlCOS Ia VIZ AOASAN .
style while your wife at home is
turning her last years dresses and
working her poor fingers to the
bone in the effort to make the
meager provisions for the house
hold go as far as possible. Is that
endowing her with all your worldly
goods? Not such!
You object to your wife receiving
the calls of gentlemen not exactly
agreeable to you, while you are fire.
quently found in the society OF
women whom you would blush for
very shame should your wife make
associates of them. What right
have you to do this? Has notyour
wife just as much interest in your
cleanliness OF mind and thought
and person as you have in hers :?
What right have you to refuse to
be bound by the same law that you
lay down for the government and
direction of that wife I? Do not the
impurities in your life and charac-
ter reappear just as decidedly in
the characters and in the life cur
rents of the children born in your
h ONE, as they would, if the impur.
tiles were those of their mother
instead of their father? Is it not
degrading your wife to make
her the associate through you,
Of all the off.color society that
you mingle with on the
sly? Does not the contamina.
ton Of their society pass over from
them, through you to her and the
children she bears you? The
science and humanity of today
affirm that they do. What right
have you thus to corrupt your
home. There is a very wide field
for serious reflection open here.
The LIGHT preacher would exhort
every husband in his congregation
this morning to sit down and ask
himself how he would feel today if
the social boots that he wears were
put upon his wife's feet? How he
would feel il she entertained for
her company the men Of the same
social and moral rank as the
women whom he, her husband,
sometimes entertains? There Is
not one law for the man and
another for the woman.
What right have you as her hus.
band, bound by solemn VOW to love
and cherish her, to take your pleas.
ure as you do at your club, or in
the poker room or in the. dance
hall, leaving her lonely and with
out society? Do you think that
her love of society and her pleas
ure in new faces and in strange
places is less than yours? Has she
not the same desire for companion
ship, the same heart to eat itself
out in solitude, the same love to
live or die in her breast according
as it is fed or starved? What right
had you to take her from the home
circle and doom her nights to
loneliness while you are rowing
around town for your pleasure,
or winning and dining conviv-
ial companions, or taking a
peep at the shady side of that
half world that it would be con-
tamination to mention in the pres
ence Of your wife and children?
What right have you thus to doom
your wife to solitude?
Your personal rights are not Of
this character. Your rights can
not be made the instruments OF a
gross injustice to your wife. What
right have you to expose her to the
temptations that come from your
inconsiderateness and neglect?
What right to place her in a posi-
tion for assault by the evilminded'
II you have no mercy dn your
wives, gentlemen, have a little
smack Of pity on yourselves. d.
not you know that there are il
, your own set a score of men VIII
are watching your neglect OF a
: charming wife, charming In othel
| eyes than your own, and that these
, men have no more principle thai