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

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kind .of jack-leg trade that any girl
can pick up at q minutes notice, and
carry on Buccessfully Without the
slig htest 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-hooks, butsh blithe-
ly and ock,surely tackles the most.
difficult and complicated job existing
THAT Of being a .wife-on the falla-
cious assumption that q knowledge of
how to manage q man and make him
happy and comfortable comes to a
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 tenderest
affection in time. Love Is choked to
death on tough steak as we'll as slain
by unfaithfulness, and many a young
husbands illusions about his bride
bave 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 undertake
ings on earth. 1t requires labor aud
skill and care and tact and unsalfish-
ness, but 1t 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? Add 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
when you hout his advice or show by
your manner that you thi the "olG
man" is kind Of back number.
Just so certainly as you live there
will come day when you will remem
Der untilial attitude toward your dad
and be sorry for It,. And then 1t Will
be too late. Father may be sleeping
in his Ryave and you will haYe life
IL :" regret. The keenest remorse
you ', III ever know will be the memo
ry OF yourIi'l treatment Of lack CT re-
spect for yer father. When the
thought of pres. days shall come to
you. you will remeniher that you often
showed your mother the affection you
felt for her and denieo 1t to your
father whom you also loved. Remem-
ber, son, that fatl er's ways are not
your mother s ways. Father has had
to fight the world for your bread and
butter and the world has taught him
to conceal his feelings. He loves you
just as much as mother does cnly he
cannot show it. Under his vest he
yearnS for your tiilial smile. And
when you do anything to be proud OF
nobody on earth is prouC9r Of you
that father. OF course you think
father is not in every respect up to-
date, that he hasn't kept up with the
procession and that sometimes he is
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 long
time In this world, my boy, you will
always be led to say that the safest
and sanest adviser you ever had was
your father.