The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1899-12-29
new Year
RESOLUTIONS
FOR uEU.
AA, Isle was sitting in her pleasant
GL library, intently reading neat
W. typewrltten list as long as her
ReoJ arm.


N library, intently reading neat
W. typewrltten list as long as her
RSzO arm.
"What is it?" Inquired, with
interest. "New Year resolutions"
she responded, promptly.
Goodness, grsciousw l exclaimed,
ag hast, "you surely aren't going to try
to keep that many? It's enough to
bring on paresis even to attempt to re-
member what they're about"
"Don't be alarmed" she returned /;
"They are not intended for personal use.
They are merely little list have pre-
pared for some men know. You see,
Dorothy" she went on, earnestly, "I've
been thinking over the matter, and I've
come to the conclusion that the trouble
with us women is that we have gotten
into the habit of trying to monopolize
all the domestic virtues and selfsacri-
fees You-can't pickup paper with
out seeing long article on a woman's
duty to make home happy, or wife's
duty to her husband, or a mothers sa-
cred duty to her children. But do you
ever hear of its being mans duty to
make home so attractive his wife won't
want to go out in the evening? Does
any body ever advise him, when he
comes home tired at night, to put on his
dress suit and try to entertain his wife
TO keep her from being attracted by
younger and handsomer men? Not
muLh. Do you ever see roomful of
prosperous, middle-aged men sitting
around in fathers convention, dis
cussing how to do their duty to their
children? Nobody ever did. 1t isn't
right. I'm in favor of giving the men
a show and letting them take hand
in the happiness making and the duty
business
"Now, when the New Year resolution
time comes" went on Elsie, studying
her list,"I just want to get in few of
my domestic principles, and, my word
for it, you will see it will do more reaI
good and bring about more genuine re-
forms than all the swearing off from
smok' & and drinking since Adam
Comparatively few momen are afflicted
with husbands who get drunk or smoke
to excess, but millions of us have to put
up with men who are in crying need OF
little welcome reformation, and who
might make US much happier if they
only would.
"What would suggest? Oh, lots Of
things. To begin with: I'd have then
make a cast-iron resolution to spenC
more Of their time at home. When {
man marries woman he leads her tC
! suppose he does it because he yearns fo
unlimited quantities of her society, anC
It must strike any fairminded person |
good deal like getting goods under fals'
pretenses, if, as soon as the honeymoon
wanes, he chases off to the club o
downtown the minute he gets his sup
per, leaving her to solitude and the un
exciting delights of her own company
1t is situation that perhaps mai
never appreciates, because he has nev
er been there himself. 1t couldn't hap
pen to him, because the moment he de
tected a symptom of lonesomeness h
would put or his hat and go off to tn
theater or the corner saloon, or som
place where there were ght and bright
ness and gayety. A woman has no sue
resources. She can'tgo around at nigh
,, by herself hunting up company, bu
!, must sit at home, no matter how lone
! some and bored she may be. Men ar
forever wondering why women want T.
congregate together in boarding houses
. One answer to the conundrum is tina
: they mant somebody to talk to Will
. their husbands are downtown at nigh
have vet TO see the woman whose hu'
, band was a housekeeping and hom'
loving mani " no wasn't satisfiCd d 10 sta
there, too. There's one thing dead ee
tain, and that is that IL men were q
!. anxious to stay at home evenings q
4 they were to call on girl before ma
l risge, and If they took as much troub
! and pains to try to entertain their wiv'
as they do their sweethesrts, the dome
tic millennium would be In haillng ui
: tarce.
"Another good resolution that woul
make household angels sing togeth'
: for 10Y would be If men would remer
: her that being a woman doesn't NAL
!. any one enjoy having all their theori'
and ideas derided and scoffed at. The
are plenty Of women who can't ventu
an opinion on any subject from Il
: weather to the political situation, wit
: out having their husbands tell the
: they don't know what they are talkiI
= about, snd they'd better keep quiet.
may be true, but IL . man marries f.
: il is his own fault. tie picked her o
.iIom among -. sAe oshsE women IN i