The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1904-08-14
FOR HUSBANDS.

! IN lack Dl. '.il'i lobl''f b'.'i''' '
the summer husband has received
more than usual attention from the
women's clubs ana the women's
pers this year. The mems clubs and
mems papers have treated the matter
with a reserve which amounts to neg.
lcct. one kind OF wife commits YER
bal Mysteries because she tS1iks sac
Is doing wrong i'm going TO the coun-
try and having a nice time while poor
hubby - left at his bench. or his
desk. with his nose at the grindstone.
and the revolutions OF the implement
are ini1aming that organ till it Is past
recognition Another kind Of wife
rebukes her softer sister with pishes
and tushes. and tells her that It isn't
the grindstone that is making his
nose red, IL is cocktails-thc brute!
Occasionally n husband, finding him.
self pited quayers out protest
against being left alone in this bleak
town with the thermometer at all
kinds of figures. and wonders that a
woman whom he has sworn to love
honor and obey should have the heart
10 order him TO stay here while she
went TO a summer hotel and, for
aught he knew, lirted
frankly we do not think the situ-
alton is one that calls for the much
shedding Of bitter tears or ink.
When the husband and wife are young
and need one another most, they are
usually poor This is a merciful
Providence, since II prevents their
separation. The husband cannot pa"
the rent II ne sends his wife to the
country, so she has TO accept as a
substitute seat on the doorstep In
the evening and ice cream soda at
the drug store. When both are old
er the pangs of separation are more
endUTable, and by that time also there
ought TO be enough in the bank
10 spare for a trip or a stay at some
quiet resort among the hills. AS tic
average income does not permit n
summer at liberty ror two, and as
business rules do not allow it even II
the income did-for the income would
stop II the rules were broken-the
wife takes a vicarious as well as a
personal vacation, and the husband
tolls That is. he often says he does,
though every one knows that bust
lress Is so much fighter in town in
Summer, because Of the absence OF
the women, that he does not toll
enough to get himself sunstruck.
There is no great occasion for
worry over a custom that has become
wen and properly fixed in this coun
try. Neither the husband nor the
wife is the worse for a short separa
tion. II is quite possible that alb
sence, not too long continued, makes
the heart grow fonder. II is certain
that the American woman, who, more
than all others, is the victim OF the
house habit, and sometimes does moi
Taste fresh air for days together
needs the brace Of country life ant
sunshine Sometimes 1t is true, the
, woman is so distrustful of her hus
band that she will rot leave hin
and II she goes TO the country for {
. little while she tortures herself with
thoughts that he is consorting wit
bleached blondes on roof gardens OF
IS going home in a state of intoX!ca
ton at unseemly hours If he is thai
kind OF man she may know that ht
misbohavcs as often when she is a
home as when she is absent and It Is
rather a poor estimate Of mankin,
that assumes this conduct on the par
of abandoned husbands.-Be Beacon.