The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-10-01
To the Husband
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Gives Them more Advice.

~N%AA-e~f- W. many N9Nan1 --t = NAEeN
/ lie woman committed suicide because her
husband scoIded her
He came home late a. night ana found
her employed in labor which seemed 10
him suitable for the morning hours. ana
! spoke angrlly about her tardy habits.
/ she flung herself from the window and
died in the hospital soon afterwards.
There seemed to be a mixture OF the
/ pathetic. the tragic and the absurd tn al
1 thiS
I II was a small thing 70 cause . wife o
sacrifice her nfe-5ust a mans Irritable
! criticism. But we must take into consid-
I Grafton ali shat preceded this occasion
/ There had been sco.ding after scolding
4 without doubt. She had been found faux
| with for 50 many dereuciuoDs, for -
many deeds done and undone that this
/ final criticism was merely the last straw
/ on the camels hack.
\ cross. fault-hnding wife Is a terrible
I being. But a nam can take his hat and
/ go 10 the club. 20 the cornor grocery, or
I 10 the saloon when her tongue becomes
too aggressive
When the husband comes home and
scolds the air Of the house blue. there ia
nothing Tor a wife TO do bat submit o.
| jump out OF thu window.
The wife who died in the hospital the
l other day had submitted for many years.
I undoubtedly: and thea finding that sub
mission did not better matters. she tried
the window act
Il would have been wiser 90 walk out
I at the door. II Is more discreet 20 81
/ into the highways OF The earth uniuvlted
than to force an entrance into the mys-
terious realm OF death
The man or woman who commits sui-
eide IS a spiritual pauper. He who has
spiritual strength knows ne viii DO AID
ed 20 the end and waits his sslI But the
spiritual pauper declares himself bank
rupt when he ends his own earth eNia-
tsuce.
We know there are homes Tor paupers
IN this world We do not know what pro-
vision IS made for them in the next
Il Is always we'll % go into rev land
with full purse: and IL IS well % enter
the next world with good supply e
spiritual wealth. and nor a. bankrupt.
Meantime there IS the scoiding husband
10 carry his remarscflI heart Jhroush LIE
II Is good enough Tor him. and set We
cannot help plying him.
He Is 50 sorry DE said what he dia lia
never dreamed she would take g. 80 ~
heart He would give an hS possesses % .
90 hack and live that night over ana d..
Oh. So differently. IIe would understand
her So much batter and bs so much het-
ter. II SHE were alive today.
Sometimes the only way "a wife can
make nor husband understand her is 70
die. Then he sees and ndmircs 1u her
sweet tender qualities.
like to think The world H. pe0P'ej with
happy wives and husbands know
many, Many more .ts-unkn5wn %
me Happiness g. Outlines ~ccre.fse ana
aulet. misery s. noisy and c1suIa NEGATIVE
Happiness seeks a7 confident; unhappi
ness wants % pc ayms.4tl.zed efith.
Happiuess thanks cod ln the -lencsi
Misery cries aloud Co me world tuh -
We grow to thiuk that uuhapp.ness IL
the rule and Happiness. mo exeep5lou. b.
/ do NOT believe o.
sun lu this overfuu wosld and over
civilized state ~ society. there are hua-
dredy ~ unhappy wives 20 be found.
wives who feel often an the verge 20 arft
az deSeurats as thst ~ fhe poor little
woman who forms he subject ~ tbir
sketch ard husbands who are az hHHf-
Iy thaurbuess and ss unkiBd as the nue
whose irritable words drove her fs her
death
n YOU who read these lines are a man
and husband. ak Feursslf lust what
sou are doing toward making yaur home
the peaceful place home should be.
WAT ara vau jaiuE tr render your wifs
happy at tHe thought - seeing yau each
evening" Are you pra.s.ug her Or every
rssl guslr5 -as processes. au1 thanking
her for al BIER ensrts ie please yal7
Are you telling har she .s good vile
and a raof mother. ~ age 500 hadiaK
fault with every smsH failure ~ hers
and iguar'us her great Firiuaaf
ID nos imagine a good woman e safis-
fed with virtues own reward The CON.
sr.ouuess ~ hrr svu aar-h ls a9f asf-
ne.eut fo keep her happy e yau are ri-
lcnf AMI never vask ta impress upea he-
rnird enc fact fHst 500 reaiize her Ese8
auaIues Ant uHs is especially .ras =
you take e.e-s qppa-ferIfF ts assure hs~
that sou eee per fss'fs.
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wins ras entertain sai arauFe her 81 y9a
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