The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-29

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nestle tyranny as ever has been by
drunkenness and infidelity-
For my part, says Dorothy Dix in the
New Orleans Picauyne, / should like
to see more of those husbands who are
good men, and who are perfectly sure
they are a matrimonial prize that any
woman ought to be down on her, knees
thanking heaven for having bestowed
upon her, get off of their pedestals long
enough to make a New Years resolu-
ton. l should like to see a few hus-
bands make an iron-clad resolution:
To give their wives a regular allow
ance instead of doing the market
money out to her a penny at time.
This will keep her from being glad
when you are dead. Nothing ever
really reconciles any human being to
being financially, dependent on another.
Women loathe being beggars just as
much as men do, and the insurance
money consoles many a wife for the
love OF good husband.
10 pay their wives as many COM
pliments as they did their sweethearts
Beln@ married does not destroy
Woman's appetite for bon-bons
10 tell their wives that they appre-
clate their services and their sacrifices.
wives are the only laborers on earth
who work for their board and clothes,
ana even a servant deserves a tip now
and then
To do their parts towards making
nome happy. home is a vehicle de-
signed for a span to draw, and one
horse cannot pull it out of the mud
TO remember that while home is
woman's sphere, it is not particularly
exciting and exhilarating to be shut
up IN the house all day with a lot of
little tyrants, who are crying and fret
ting and humping their noses and yelp-
ing mother" every minute. There is
no other such martyr as a mother,
and she needs to have brightness and
change brought into life. One Sunday
afternoon nursing the i1doy-- will re-
duce an able bodied man to the verge
of nervous prostitution Think what
seven days week of it means, and
when You go home at night don't bury
yourself in the newspaper. Take your
wife out to the theater as often as
you can, and when you can't, talk to
her. Entertain her. Tell her the bright
| things and the funny things you have
seen and heard downtown.
Remember that the children are
yours just as much as they are hers,
and don't shunt all the responsibility
of raising them on her. Don't make
| your own hearthstone the dumping
ground for all your troubles.
Don't forget to tell your. wife every
day of your life that you love her. If
luton, make this and keep it. Love Is
the coin that pays a woman for every
| hardship and sacrifice in life. Give
| her that and she will ask for little else
| should like to see some of the wom-
en- who think their pictures ought to
be in the papers as an illustration OF
living model of all the virtues make
New Years resolution to:
Use more tact in dealings with their
husbands Only a fool dashes herself
| to death against a stone wall when
| their is an easy path around it.
To have fOrbearance and discretion
| enough to refrain from introducing
| topics of conversation on which she
knows she and her husband hold diff
ferent opinions. Flaunting red flag
| in front of a bull never did anything
yet but stir up trouble.
To cut the arguing habit. Argument
| is death to love.
To remember that the daily spat ends
| in the divorce court.
To remember that matrimony doesn't
| give one license to- wear Mother Hub
away your bait because you have
caught your fish. He might wriggle
| off of the hook.
Too keep their little worries and ag-
gravations to themselves. Husbands
have troubles of their own, and it can't
be very comforting to man who had
| wrestled all day with his own prob
lens to be met at the front door with
a jeremiad of domestic woes.
To remember that a prompt and
pointed answer does not turn away
wrath.
To remember that "he'' pays the
freight, and is entitled to the very best
that the house can give-the most COM
Portable chair, the things he likes to
eat, the sweetest smiles and the ten
derest love and consideration that his
wife has in her repertoire.
TO remember that a woman's part of
the matrimonial bargain is making a
comfortable home. If she fails in that
she has defaulted on the contract and
deserves to be sent to the penitentiary,
To remember that when she married
she did ii of her own free will and ac-
cord. She knew the risks and took
them with eyes open, and if there
have been trials, and anxieties have
come, she has no right to regard her.
self as a victim and blame her hus-
band She was just as anxious to
marry him as he was to marry her.
Not to tell her domestic troubles Il
anybody, not even her mother. Until
a woman gets ready to relate the story
of husbands misdeeds in the divorce
court she owes ii to her own dignity
to keep silence.
To remember that a laugh is a light
ming rod that will carry domestic at
mospheric disturbance safely into th'
! -earth.
To remember that men like appre
citation just as much as women do
The average American husband work!
like a dray horse from morning t
night to support his family, and wheT
he does not get even thanks for thu
sacrifice he makes he must wonder
/ what ever made him fool enough t
burden himself with a family.
Remember that tenderness, love
| consideration, gentleness, patience anC
, brightness are the qualities that bes
adorn a wife. They are oldfashione(
virtues, but the world has never i'm
r proved upon them. Use them ever,
, day of your life, and the coming yea
, we will see a falling off in the divorcl
business.
, Suppose young girls would make 4;
, few New Years resolutions:
To swear off on candy that ruin.
, their digestion, and silly novels tina
upset their minds.
To devote time and effort to enter
, tanning their father as they do som,
, Anticipated beau. Many father mus
: think the money he spent for raisinl
: and educating his daughter a prettl
! poor investment.
To try 10 learn to sew and cook, s,
: they will not be a burden to the un
fortunate man who marries them
To stop talking so much nonsense I,
silly boys.
e Not 10 drink wine and cocktails Il