Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-12-24
Tie Too Good Wife.

Tie Too Good Wife.
Every now and then a world weary
and folly weary man marfies an inno-
cent. unworldly and good woman
He wants the sweet home life he has
not found in the paths of pleasure, nor
IN the byways of license. Tie wants the
unmercenary devotion of a loving WON
an. and he wants to walk forth in the
broad light of day, unashamed. with his
wife by his side.
It is the inevitable goal of every worth
while man.
The world approves of such marriages.
and the woman feels that She is filling
woman's highest mission in retaining a
lost sheep. But how few such women
know the wise middle course 10 walk
with such man.
1t is all very well to listen and believe
when he tells You he is happier than he
has ever been in his life before. and that
his home is dearer to him than any club
on earth.
But it is far from very well if you fall
upon his neck and weep the first time he
intimates that he would like to drop in
1T the club and talk with the old chums
for an hour.
This is the poorest method you could
adopt to convince him of the greater joys
Of home.
There is certain fascination in club
life TO most men. There is danger in
this fascination to some men. When a
man sickens of it and wants a home il is
because he has had nothing hut his club
and because there is worthy element
in his nature which calls for something
better.
The fact that he should want to visit
the old scene now and then is not an in
dication that he is sick of home or that
he is wandering from the fold again.
If the pasture is sweet and the shep-
herdesS kind and wise the sheep will not
wander far.
If YOU have married a man who has
been overload of the fair sex. and if he is
kind and true and loving, do not be for
YER upon the alert lest he stray from
you.
Constant surveillance never yet kept q
man true. 1t has made many a man UNI
faithful.
Although your husband may have told
you over and over again that you are
tenfold more pleasing to him than any
woman he ever knew before he met you,
that does not signify that he might not
like to sit by some other at Il dinner
party, dance with some other ut CO.
tillon. 1t does not signify that he would
not enjoy talking with others whom he
regards less highly than you. In the
association with the women he does not
love q man often most appreciates the
seat by some other woman and converse
with her in your presence, do not act
Sulky. distract or injured
That only makes you ridiculous and
unIovable.
Although your innocence and unworld-
illness won your husband from the paths
of folly, those qualities will not keep him
at your side unless you mingle common
sense and tact with them.
1t is easy for many women to be bril-
liant, and it is easy for others to be
good. But it seems the most difficult
thing in the world for a woman to be
sensible.
Genius and virtue are everywhere. but
we must search for common sense. Wom-
an is called a composite creature, but
man is tenfold more composite When Il
man has the whole world catering to ev-
erything in his makeup, except his love
of virtue he is not TO he made abiding
ly happy with nothing but that quality
satisfied
He cannot suddenly and permanently
change his whole mental structure.
Be satisfied then if your husband gives
up the liberties and vices which the
world allows bachelor but do not ask
him to reliQush the courtesies and rec
"
Drive suspicion from your door. and
install confidence in it's place. Cultivate
self esteem and self confidence, and think
act, talk and live so sweetly and loving
ly that rivalry Is impossible.
Make the new life a holiday. not n
term of imprisonment 4 very good
woman who has human weakness in her
nature is sometimes the devils tool to
drive men to drink.
Absolute loyalty, absolute morality. alb
Solute honor and cleanliness of life ev-
cry woman has the right to ask of her
husband. The pest of his devotion and
the larger portion of his leisure should be
given her voluntarily. But to make him
willing captive should be wOman's art
not to make him a life prisoner. and the
home a reformatOry. and the wife n
suspicious warden, always imagining thar
the prisoner is planning escape.
The good wife must possess other
qua!' les besides goodness to make her
marriage with a mere man successful.
Common sense and tact must be two
strands of the rope to make it strong
enough TO act as an anchor for the do
nestle ship. The too good wife relies
wholly upon one strand and the ship
breaks anchor-Ella Wheeler Wilcox in
Spokane Spokesman-R Review.
The Healthfulness of Forgetting.