Arizona republican., 1903-12-20

It's yours. you think-iust as she is. Possession makes big difference. ] True, you're a good fellow. You mean well, but you mean to be the main thing yourself-don't yoI? 1 If any man were to tell you that yol act the brute and the bully toward the patient woman who has brought VOL nine-tenths of your joys and shared all your sorrows. ana whom ycI love next to your money. Yon woaId get fierce about it.
 But in strict confidence now. be- tween you and your conscience. don't | you swell up to think that you're the boss. that a look from you is q com mand to her. that she must beg Of you piecemeal for what you promised to lay at her feet? You know you don't ! treat her as well as you did the daN she was your bride. YCu lied to her. You're a bully toward her every day
 You don't Go a tenth for her that you ought to. And if you're any man at all. you know it.
 | She asks you now for money to get ! Christmas gifts for the children-asls you apologetically. as she must. and maybe after long waiting to catch won ] in a good humor.
 You grouch and Growl and snecr: i Much good did these knick-nacka eyer
 do anybody"
 You forget your own childhood; yes
 you forget your manhood. too.
 You give her something. of eourse,-
 you're a good fellow-but the thing you give her is one part money and
 nine parts heartache.
 1 And you think you've thawed out. Of course. you know your own busi-
 ness. You want nobody to tell yOu , how much you can spare to you're wife for Christmas gifts. Yes, you 1 know how much you can spare that's the point-she has nothing to say
 about it. It's all yours-yours: SO is | she.
 Yes; you know your own business. | You have exoenses to be met, you have debts to be paid and there is bur i little money left. That's good business ! sense. But don't forget that your big ] gest debt is to the patient woman who | has consigned toyou all that is nearest 1 to your happiness and has trusted you 1 far beyond your rating ing Bradstreet B 1 or anywhere else. Pay your debts. of ! course, but make her preferred cred - l itor. Integrity-it begins in justice to her
 True, you have given her a nice l home: you dress her good enougI; you i provide well for her-yes you treat hcr as well as you do your horse. But do | you think she ought to be content with
 that? Don't you know that she has J
 soul that needs nourishment? ! Be sordid and tyrannical and g-uu-
 py toward her all the rest of the year, 1 if you must, but for the next two weeks ] thaw out that muscular pump in vour 1 left breast and see if it is still a | heart.
 See ic a little kindness and affection ! and seif-den.al can flow from it.
 Be a bridegroom to her again for a l little while.
 See if yoT can't bring the almost , forgotten blush of happiness back into her cheeks and the old light into her eyes and the ole laugh to her lips
 You have grubbed and scraped to- | gether d lot of trash that you call your fortune but do not enjoy. You know in your heart that the glint and glitter
 so sweet as the simple happiness Of the honeymoon. when you had noth- ing but her and she had nothing but you-and your promises. that yon
 haven't made good.
 1 Fill your pocketbook full of that trash you have sweat for and sacrificed her for. give it to her to buy Christmas gifts, and learn for the first time what
 it is all good for.-Milwauke Journal.