Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1899-03-26

interested me very much when l asked him whyB he and his wife no longer lived together. Of course l expected be would say that she had been unfaitbful to him in the mar riaqe relation. But uo. .sWhat then2 Too much dust pan and brush. She was forever round with the dust pan and brush, said he. Of course there were other causes that led to tke separation, but among the various disagreable things in his life with her which he recalled was this scene of discomfort that arose from her habit of excessive neat ness.
 His answer impressed me greatly and in this Suz day morning letter I want to say some things in behalf of those husbands who are the victims of Wivesswho act as if they believed that their one all absorbing duty in the home is to keep it free from dust. We believe in marriage, and shall often dip our pen in defense of the best of married life But we have seen some women pardon us whom we think would be better off in the ranks of spinstorhood than as, wlves in the home. For some things these women deserve praise, for they are economical, good cooks, pure as a sunbeam, but they are so very particular about having everything in the house in such apple pie order-such slaves to the broom-that they rob homes of the home-like atmospnere.
 NEAT BUT NOT TOO NEAT.
 Of course the average man wants wife who by nature is neat. Walls festooned with cobwebs have TO particular attraction for him. He likes to see his wife neatly dressed but for the fuss-and-feather type of woman-that destroyer of solid com fort in the home nest-well, to put it lightly, be has no use for her. You recognise the woman, do you not? Every thing in the house must be placed just so, and it must stay as 1t is put, or woe be to the trans. gressor.
 Coats and hats are left around at the peril of ones happiness. John why don't you hang things away?" And John, poor fellow, hears this SO often that he thinks of himself as a sort tof executioner, looking for something to hang, and we fear that he feels at times as if he would like to hang his beloved nagger.
 No careless leaving of one's shoes around. Not bit of it. They must be set away neatly Toes pointing a. right angles with the mop board. Don't leave things around" Familiar warning. How it haunts you. Until you come to feel as if you might leave yourself around In some unguarded moment. TIDES, LIKE CHINESE
 MUST GO.
 There are the tldies, man speelal abomination; with a sort of I've. been placed-here appearance. things to be looked at but not to be nan died. One must not lay head a. gainst them, for that would soil them or else get them out of place.
 Comfort? Happiness of home? What are these things besides the importance of order? Even the books on the table are piled with brick mason orderliness. .gThey have been piled this way for years, same books, same piles. and photograph of the table as 1t looked last year would do for this year. If book is removed 1t is to be pat back where it came from. Put that book back where it came from is heard by the children as soon as the ''Now I lay me" and the cry haunts tLem all through childhood.
 Hone of these enemies of disorder should pass away and an onlooker were to change the position of a flower upon the casket he might al most expect the lips to break forth in :resurrected ech, "Put that rose back iu t where you took it