The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1904-01-05
The First Requisite
Of Love
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rage a failure and must make the best
Of it. He resumed his place at his
clubs. This is mans advantage. If he
does not find companionship at home.
he can get it abroad.
1t was not so wiki the wife. She
could not thus cooliy make up her mind
that there had been a mistake and
partly resume her former life of indie
pendence. Instead of gathering about
her her former friends. practically
avoiding any serious pitfall. she listen
ed to the first man who chose to whis-
per a soft word in her ear. and he, be-
ing encouraged, poured forth a torrent
This i a measure supplied what she
had lost. 1t was like being widowed
and exchanging hearts anew.
1t was the anniversary of their we'd
ding, but the husband had forgotten it
When the wife discovered that this
first anniversary, which a year before
she supposed would be passed in q
more intense cooling han before. was
absolutely aforementioned by her hus-
band, she gave way to irritation
Nothing that he said pleased her. ev-
erything ~displeased her. This is one
Of her moods" he said to himself. IT
don't understand them. and | don't
want to understand them. l know g.
place where l car get quiet and COM
fort, a place where no woman may en-
ter-my club. There l will 60" When
he returned at II o'clock at night, the
new source from which his wife had
begun to draw the sympathy she could
not live without was sitting in his par
lor. The husband. entering suddenly
caught a look that was passing be-
tween the Two and believed that his
place was supplied.
A philOsophic nature led him to think
out a plan and follow it-a plan that
would 10 the least harm, give him and
his wife the least trouble. Il shall be
no dog in The manger,'" he said. IF
she prefers this man, she shall have all
size wants Of him l WI go abroad
and live. But that my affairs shall not
become common talk l must have an
ostensible object in going. | will ap-
ply for some petty consulship in a
place where no American would care
to live; then l will live ,4sewhere and
pay a deputy" After he had given
himself plenty of time to form an ir-
revocable resolution be went to IN
nounce it to his wife.
We are creatures of happenings. We
mark out a course. take a week, a
month, perhaps a year to digest it. then
when we are ready to put it into execu-
ton a circumstantial zephyr blows it
ourou Whom tho hDSha nd Uac ohnJ1f
to communicate his plan to his wife.
she forestalled the announcement by
one of her own. The germ of a new
life had come into the universe.
In a twinkling the mans mind, in
t%entions, affections were diverted into
a new channel. He was enough of a.
Psychologist to know that the mother
must have the best of care, both for
her own sake and for b sake of her
and his child. He was chained to q
necessity. He would bear with her
every fault, her irritability. her pee
vishness, her unreasonableness-every-
thing. 1t would be time when this sea-
son was over to carry out his plan OF
living abroad or form another. He be
gan by putting his arms around his
wife affectionately. She yielded to his
caress. While they were standing 81
lent in each others arms u ervant
raped at the door and announced the
man who had been called in for sym.
patty. The wife expressed annoyance
""Tell him that / am no at home"
Then the husband made a discovery
Controlling himself, bearing with those
Faults which had Shatfnra6 his idea
Of married life, giving his wife occa-
sional expressions of affection which
meant nothing. but which were a part
Of his plan. he soon found that there
were no Objectionable traits to bear
with. or. rather. hat they had lost
their virulence. His wife often APP
peared to him more unreasonable than
ever, but the defect was atoned for by
expressions of affection for him which,
unlike his own. were sincere. The pain
he had suffered from an u~ncongenial
mate was changed for one of anxiety,
softened by mutual affection. mutual
Interest in an expected pleasure. And
now that this delightful sympathy was
restored he began to dread lest he
should lose her. h redoubled his
attentions. his sympathy, his demon
strations of love and these quadrupled
the return.
One day after hours of physical ag-
ony to the wife and mental agony to
the husband in a twinkling the sun
shone through raindrops. smiles broke
through tears. There were not only
two lovers. but three. King Baby set
I'M his throne in the household and
ruled. an autocrat. 1t vas what will
your majesty please to wear? And
what will you majesty please to eat?
And when will your majesty please to
sleep? And. most Of all, WREN will
your majesty permit other to sleep?
Then the husband made a second dis
covery. The first was that marital at
lection could only be gained by his
sacrifice to the wife; the second was
that the sacrifice of both to the child