The Cairo bulletin., 1904-06-12

/ himself for it, All, could there be
any swertcf or more devoted or more
intense measure for a husbands af-
fections than that? Ii is love the true
wife longs for as it is love the true
husband in the home should long for
Not money 50 much as love, intense,
devoted loyal self sacrificing love.
Husbands, pay your wives for their
sacrifices Of life in the golden coin Of
minted love
Marriages. Promissory Note.
But there is a promi9Sory note con
nected with every marriage certificate
which should compel husband to give
lis love to his wife as well as his graft
tude for what she does. 1t was on ac-
count Of thla loving promise which he
made to her that she, 4 young girl was
persuaded to leave her fathers home
and turn her back upon her school
friends and, like Ruth, who followed
Naomi, go with her husband where he
went and lodge with him whore he
lived and make his people her people
and his God her God. Therefore il a
man who has won his bride upon the
promissory note Of love does not fulfill
his contract he is a swndler as well rs
an migrate, deceiver, a falsitier, a per-
jurer. as well as one whose ideas Of
gratitude are as monstrous and dis
tortcd as that Of the hayward son,
who would trunple upon a mothers
bleeding heart and turn upon his IN
TIERS love You believe a merchant Is
dishonest who through the bankruptcy
court would rcpudiate a debt lie could
pay. Why will you not say husband
is dishonest and contemplate who
would repudlate the obligation of a
lifetime love, which he accepted when
he pledged himself to the young girl
by his side on his wedding day when
they stood amid uncovered orange
hloSsomst
This Swindle in reference 70 prom
Used affections which husband some
times practices upon a wife is the more
contemplate because in one sense the
wife is absolutely helpless after the
preparation Of the fraud Say what
you Will, argue as you may, talk glow
ingly and POLITICALLY and grandiloquent /
ly about woman's opportunities, a 1
wife's opportunities have always been |
and nearly always will be circum- |.
scribed By the four walls Of her home |.
The husband has his outside business |.
relationships, He has his mercantile I
friends as we'll us his store friends. He
meets men on the street, in the ears, in (
the office, behind the counter lie can |.
get away and does get away from the |
home, But for the most part the wife /
is anchored to. the kitchen, the bed |
room aud the nursery Of home BY the |
children. Therefore If he fails her and /
defrauds her Of his promised love she
is absolutely helpless and must suffer |
more than he can realize She has |
practically no redress, for she has Civ /
on up her all for him If, however, on |
account of her husbands neglect Il
Wife turns her back upon him ana /
goes forth to meet the world as an in /
dependent woman, then the world It. |
self will turn its back upon her. Just |
before l began my Chicago pastorato a |
very prominent Pittsburg lady who /
was divorced said to me: "On account /
of the neglect and the inhumanties of I
n brutal husband, for the protection of |
myself and children, got legal sepa- /
ration. But il | had it all to do over !
again | would bear any Injustice and |
suffer every brutality rather than get I
n divorce. The outside world does not /
look into the causes Of family dis /
rupti0n, but hcartlcss people will al
ways look upon a divorced wife as on +
one who has black mark upon her /
brow Oh, yc faithless unloylng hus-
bands, will you not be honest to- your
selves and honest to your wives and |
pay the promssory note of love which /
you made when the minister pro
nounced you and your wife one "untl
death do you part?'
Broken Hearted wives.
Can you not hear the wailngs and
sobs Of broken hearted wives in the
words of the poet of old;
Before | trust my fate to thee
Or place my hand In thine
Before let thy future give
Color and form to NINE
Before peril all to thcc
Question thy soul tonight for me.
Does there within thy dimmegt
dreams
A possible future shine
Wherein thy life could henceforth
breathe
Untouched. unshared by mine?
If SO, at any pain or cest.
Oh. tell me before all is lost
In the death knel of n husbands
love also hear the sobs Of the broken
heart Of mother as well as of Il wife.
The great dramutist wrote, ooh. sharp
err than serpent's tooth it is 10 have
thankless chiIdr Many mother has
learned this by bitter experience
through her husbands conduct The
love that the child naturally feels for
the mother withers and dies under the
poison that comes from witnessing the
fathers contempt for the mother Lit
tie likely is a child to reverence the
mother after hearing the blame and
vituperation hurled Mt her bY her hus-