The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1904-12-09

On tho contrary, 1t Is held to be a
kind .of jack-leg trade that any girl
can pick up at a minutes notice, and
carry on successfully without the
previous knowledge or train.
Ing. No girl would be conceited
enough to think that she could prac::
tice. medicine or law or dentistry with.
out devoting years to its study. She
wouldn't even dream Of hiring out as
a stenOgrapher without first learning
how to make pot ooks, but she blithe-
ly and cock-surely tackles the most
difficult and complicated job existing
THAT Of being a wife-on the falla.
cious assumption that y knowledge OF
how to manage man and make him
happy and comfortable comes to q
woman by Inspiration, and not
through preparation. When the
average girl marries she does not even
know how to make man physically
comfortable, and yet, unromantic as
this may seem, the very foundation
of domestic happiness has to be laid
In bodily ease. Nobody can be senti.
mental on an empty stomach, and
bad cooking will kill the tsrderest
affection In time. Love Is choked to
death on tough steak as we'll as 5lain
by unfaithfulness, and many young
husbands illusions about his bride
have been drowned In watery soup.
The first inklipg that young Benedict
gets that his Angelina is not all his
fOndest fancy painted her, and that
he has missed his affinity, is when he
has to sit down to i'll cooked and i'll
served meal; and you may be very
sure that II there were no bad dinners
there would be precious few men wan
dering away from home. To be a
good wife is not an easy task. It Is
one Of the most strenuous undertak-
ings on earth. 1t requires labor aud
skill and care and tact and unsalfish-
ness, but it is the kind of service a
woman agree to give when she gets
married. II she doesn't like the price,
she can stay single.
HONOR THY FATHER.
Young man, says the Atlanta Jour
nal, you love your mother and you
take occasion to show your love for
her in ways that she we'll under
stands.
But your father, my boy. You love
him, too, in different sort Of way.
But do you honor him? And do you
show that you do? Deep down, be-
low the crust, of course you honor
your father. But not until you have
q boy Of your own will you know how
much you hurt your fathers heart
tx,l, hi n 1x,ic hf,,t l,x
your manner that you thi k the 'old
man" is a kind IF a back number
Just so certainly as you live there
will come a day when you will remem
ber untilial attitude toward your dad
and be sorry for it. And then 1T viii
be too late. Father may be sleeping
in his gyave and you will haye life
long regret. The keeneSt remorse
you will ever know will be the memo
ry of your III treatment Of lack CT re-
spect for your father. When the
thought of present. days shall come tC
you. you will remerc her that you offer
showed your mother the affection yor
felt for her and denied 1t to youl
father whom you also loved. Remem
| ber, son, that fathers ways are moi
your mothers ways. Father has hat
to fight the world for your bread an6
butter and the world has taught hin
to conceal his feelings. He loves yo,
just as much as mother does only ht
cannot show it. Under his vest ht
yearns for your tiilial smile. Ant
when you do anything to be proud o
nobody on earth is prouder of yol
that father. OF course you thinl
father is not in every respect up to
date, that he hasn't kept up with tht
procession and that sometimes he Il
unnecessarily firm and arbitrary. AL
that may be true. But the chances
are father knows more about almost
everything than you do. When yo'
are, say, thirty years old, you viii
realize that fact. II you live lont
time in this world, my boy, yo', vii
always be led to say that the safes
and sanest adviser you ever mad wa.
your father