The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-12-07

On the contrary, it is held to be
kind OF jack-leg trade that any glfl
can pick up at a minutes notice, ana
carry on successfully without the
slightest previous knowledge or train.
ing. No g:rl would be concerned
enough to thipk that she could prac-
tice medicine or law or dentistry With
cut devoting years to it's study. She
wouldn't even dream Of hiring out as
a stenographer without hrst learning
how to make pot-hooks, but she blithe-
" and cock surely tackles the most
and complicated job existing
that Of being wife-on the falla-
cious assumption that knowledge Of
how to manage a 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 b2diIy ease. Nobody can be senu.
mental on an empty stomach, ana
bad cooking will Kill the tenderes1
affection in time. Love is choked 10
death ou tough steak as well as SLAIN
by unfaithfulness, and many yourg
husbands Illusions about his BRIDE
have been drowned in watery soup.
The first inklirg that young Benedict
gets that his Angelina is not all his
fondest fancy painted her, and that
he has missed bis affinity, is when ne
has to sit down TOLL cooked and Ill
served meals; and you may be very
sure that il there were no bad dinners
there would be precious few men wan
deriDg away from home. To be a
good wife is not an easy task. 1t is
one OF the most strenuous undertak-
ings on earth. It requires labor and
skill and care and tsct and unsslhsh-
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 fo1
her in ways that she well under
stands.
But your father, my boy. You love
him, too, In a different sort OF way.
But do you honor him? And do you
show that you do2 Deep down, be-
low the crust, Of course you honor
your father. But not until you have
q boy OF your own will ycu know how
much you hurt your fathers heart
when you hout his advice or show oy
your manner that you thiak the olc
man. is a kind uf a back number.
Just so certainly as you live there
will come a day when you will remem
Der unflial attitude toward your da6
and be sorry for it. And then it will
be too late. Father may be sleeping
in bis gyave and you will have a life
long regret. The keenest remorse
you will ever know will be the memo
ry OF your i'll treatment Of lack CT re-
spect for your father. When the
thought Of present days shall come to
you. you will remember that you often
showed your mother the affection you
felt for her and denied it to your
father whom you also loved. Remem-
Der, son, that fathers ways are not
your mothers 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
lust as much as mother does only he
cannot show it. Under his vest ne
yearns for your filial smile. AND
when you do anything to be proud OF
nobody on earth is prouder 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 be is
unnecessarily firm and arbitrary. All
that may be true. But the chances
are father knows more about almost
everything than you do. When you
are, say, thirty years old, you will
realize that fact. II you live long
time in this world, my boy, you will
always be led to say that the safess
and sanest adviser you ever had was
your father.