Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-12-13
SHOW TO MAKE HOME HAPPY"
A Peculiar Organization That Has Been
Formed ut Monongah.

the organization of most interesting
association. 1t is secret society OF
freemen known as the Home Makers
1t has for its motto that fine old
English rhyme:
A woman, a spaniel and a walnut tree,
The more you thrash them the better they be.
The Baltimore Sun commenting on
it says:
The object of the Association of
Home Makers is not unlike that which
assembled at The Hague not long ago
namely, to preserve the peace of the
world. These worthy citizens of West
Virginia are determined to have peace
even If they are compelled to fight for
it. They are to have no brawling nor
contentious women in their several
homes. Their wives are to be kept
quiet and pacified, even if they have
to enforce peace and quiet with a
stick. The attorney for the associa-
tion has read his Blackstone and finds
that under the humane and most SEN
sible provisions of the ancient COM
mon law of England a man is permit
ted to beat his wife, but must use
stick no bigger thar his thumb. And
we have been told from our youth up
ward that common law is common
sense. The Home makers OF West
Virginia are going back to the COM
mon law as the palladium of their
liberties.
OF all the men who ever lived none
have combined as great a measure of
wisdom with wider experience in
vomen than good King Solomon. 1t
was an experience extending from the
beautiful and sprightly maid in the
garden Of cucumbers, who likened
herself to the rose Of Sharon and the
lily Of the valley, all the way down
to the spntentious woman whom he
likened to continual dropping on a
very rainy day. Solomon's conclusion
from all his experience was that when
his soul went out looking for people
it found one man in a thousand, but
it did not find any woman at all, al
though his palace was full of wives.
But perhaps Solomon took an extreme
view of things; and at all events times
| have changed and women become
more amenable to discipline. The
Home Makers are anti-imperialistS
but they may take lesson in pacifica
tion from the imperialists who are
now engaged in pacifying the Filipinos.
Let them make show Of force.
Nothing impresses woman more ia
vorably, nothing contributes more to
the happiness Of home and the con-
tentment of the wife and daughters
than for the head of the family to
come home drunk and break up the
furniture. If be has spent the weeks
wages in treating his friends to high
balls and other exhilirating mixtures
so much the better. And above all
things don't be too kind and gener-
Gus. The dangers of such a course
are set forth in one of the new Christ
mas books. The story is something
as follows: A man and his wife were
constantly quarreling and throwing
things at each other. The man went
to bachelor friend who, like all
bachelors knew all about women and
their ways, and the bachelor friend
advised him. 1t takes two to make
quarrel he said If your wife wants
to quarrel don't quarrel with her. Be
kind and generous, pay her compli-
ments, give her money to spend,
make love to her, take her to the
theatre. The husband took the ad-
! vice.
The wife immediately suspected
him. He has been doing something
very bad, she thought, and wants me
to forgive him. The kind treatment
continued and the woman got a pack
age of trough on rats" to end her mis-
cry. The man gave her $40 and a
bunch of flowers and invited her to go
to the theatre. That was the last
straw, and she went back to her
mother, leaving a noe saying that
she was convinced that he was con-
cealng some great wickedness and she
could no longer live in the same house
with him.
The conclusion of the whole matter
is that man hardly knows what to
do. But The Sun ventures to advise
the Home Makers to walk circum-
specify, not as fools but as wise men,
or they may strike snag. 1t is re-
lated that the only time Old Hickory
Jackson was defeated was in conse-
quence Of the only effort he ever made
to try conclusions with the women.