The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-28
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! esty Of Boston, as the true source of all
progress and enlightenment.
XXX
BY the way. why should Mr.. Booth Tark-
ington apologize TO the East for the West
ern fiat az Who taught it to US. pray?
Where did we get it? II anybody on earth
has an older patent on that fat a, or can
prove a longer and more continuous use
than that ubiquitous pioneer. the Connecti-
cut Yankee, 1 should like to see him pro-
duced.
The Housewives Association may serve
"a useful purpose in waking up the men,
bers' husbands to a sense of hitherto un-
conscious selfishness and want OF consid-
Grafton: But don't carry the joke too far.
ladies, If you drop it now it will pass as a
joke and leave no bitterness behind, and
useful lesson may be taught. but car
ried to the point of serious controversy it
will mean misery-the misery of conten-
ton between nearest friends. In marriage
the preferences. the just rights, even. of
either side, so often conflict with those
of the other that the only happiness and
peace is in each sides gladly surrendering
TO the comfort and happiness OK the other
what 1t might fairly claim for itself. Don't
put conscience into your quarrels." said
an aged pastor once, and wiser advice was
never given. A wife does not like TO have
dinner spoiled and her engagements later
| broken I'D by her husbands tardiness-and
yet he cannot always avoid it. A husband
hates to come home and find his wife alb
sent. he needs her there, with the tradi-
tional pretty dress. smile, warm slippers
and newspaper. Needs her to keep the
children from bothering him. to hear of
| his triumphs IL business has gone WELL and
/ TO be stormed at if IL hasn't. It's a great
| disappointment and discomfort to find her
away; he feels a distinct sense of wrong
| and yet he puts up with it pretty well, if
| 1t does not happen too often. 1 have not
| heard OF any bouquets or tributes sent to
the man who when he found his wife alb
| sent. rushed out and shot another woman
by way of defending the rights of husbands
to find their wives at home.
Another point where wishes often con-
| flict Is the question of going out In the
| evening. do not refer to the bad hus-
band who spends his evenings in the pur-
suit of his own pleasures, innocent or
| otherwise, while his wife is at home alone
I mean the good husband. who when he
i has comfortably settled himself to rest
| at home for the evening cannot imagine
why his wife should sometimes be so friv-
| olous and unreasonable as to want to go
somewhere. Let him remember that her
| days work is longer than his, and her
workshop is her home. She feels the need
| of change, and OF brief escape from re-
/ sponsibility and care, as well as he. and
| IL she never leaves her home she never gets
| it. If he worked sixteen hours day, as
| she does, and spent a good part of the
| other eight hours in getting up to cure
| Johnnys toothache. and to comfort Freddy
| after a bad dream, and to pick up Susy
| baby to sleep every time it wakes up
well. he would see the need of sometimes
| getting away from the scene of his la
| bors.
! Whether men give their seats to women
| in the street cars is. fancy. as much a
as between the North and the South.
Probably it is in the South and the West
both that men almost invariably show this
courtesy. and the nearer one approaches
the northern half of the East the more
| stolidly does the man cling to his seat, no
/ matter who stands. But one thing is GER
tain to happen anywhere, / think-an elder
| ly woman never has to stand in a car
| where there are girls or young women with
seats. Some girl, very tired herself, per-
haps, from standing behind counter or
| before a schoolroom all day, is sure to
rise and give the older woman her seat. And
| it is a pretty thing to see.