The sun., 1901-06-30

How far a wife should go, how many years
she should spend, how great an enort she
should make to reform habtuai drunk era
possibly each woman must Determine Tor hei.
self The general statement may be made
that In the vast maiority OF cases " WIN oe a
useless sacrifice OF time and vitality, One
rever can feel sure OF reformed inepriate
until the daisies are growing above his head
Even when q woman's sense OF love. or sense
OF duty, Ia so strong that she ls Nlllins 10
ssss.iss ss hsT is 70 her Whether
she has the right to bring children INTO the
world under these upfavorable condi'ions.
endowed With an inheritance Nhi'h may
prove q Ctrsc for many generations, -
And then again the vile must decide ior
he.self hos much - gained by snDmlttins
TO continuous III treatment. lf there ere no
children and yet she patiently enour's, mahy
will copsider that she passes beyond 'he
pale OF sympathy,
II there are children, then TIE mother
is cor fronted with series Of .pcrpehine
problems II they are young there i the gues-
tion OF bringing them up, of educating thenl,
of keeping them together, of Maintaining Tue
which is wholly Impossible II the mother
must 90 the bread winner and assume tho
duties which by proper arrangement sIl sni
suffer long ara deeply before they will Deprive
their children OF these valuable rights.
When the children are grown. then 'he
mother must face other vital ques, IONS as
she contemplates sevcring the ties which she
age for earning money; she IL tired with long
years of labor and needs the shelter and
security Of the home. her children nave
made their place in the world. and she hert
tstes 10 Gust even the shadow OF repr9ach
upon II, sons and daughters.in-iaw nave
come into the. family, still further 70 com
plicate matters and thus even then the
woman hardly daret consider herself a Tree
agent But In all such cases. II she dec cide'
that a legal separation Is not advisable. she
owes 1t to her own dignity and self respect 10
live her individual life entirely apart from
husband, even though maintaining To the
world the appearance Of marriage.
While greater freedom OF Givorce mas
come rs an inestimabie privilege To WVes
IL by no means lessons their obi gations 70
erdeavor by every method consistent WIN
safety, honor and duty to adj ust themselves
to the relations Of marrIage which they have
assumed. An abuse of tho opportunity to
sever these relations IL demoraliIing 70 so,
ciety and detracts from the sacredness OF
the contract
Poverty, illness. inhrmities Of temper.
uncongeniality are a part OF the grievo
trials which manifest themselves In many
marriages. They must be met braveIy and
philosophically. and every enort made 70
mitigate them rather than 10 run away from
them. The antenuptial dream of paradise
often has n rude awakening. but 1t must be
remembered that even when Adam and
Eve were driven from the Garoen OF Eden
they found very good world on the outside
An imperfect husband who falls short OF
and by patient tactiul ana sympathetic
management sometimes may be transiormed
into reasonably good one; so she should
exhaust every resource OF diplomacy before
she declares war and calls for outside as
sistanoe SUSAN b ANTHONY.