The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-06-28
WHY MARRIED LIFE IS DUEL.
Dorothy Dix in New Yorlx American-Jour-
nal.

ers paste and sauce Hollandaise is
that one comes in bucket and the
other is served in a china dish. .
What makes dinner of heefsteak
and potatoes gay at restaurant and
dull at home?
1t is the pink.shaded' candle and
woman who smiles at you in one place
and a sickly gas jet and a wife who
nags in the other. ...
The earliest disillusiopment of mat
rimony comes from women not under.
standing the business of making a
comfortable home. !i
Ninety times out of hundred
the very first inkling that young
man gets that marriage is failure
is when he discovers that the angel
he has espoused does not know the
first principle Of how to run house,
and the young wife asoertains that
the romantic hero of her dreams has
to be fed night and morning, like
the animals in menagerie, to keep
him in good humor. :.- =.
Before man is married he thinks
of possessing home as a goal toward
which to work.
He looks forward to it as a place of
peace and rest where he will 20 to
throw down the troubles of life and be
soothed and comforted. ...:...
He sees himself sitting down to
daintily prepared and served meals,
opposite a cheerful and neatly dressed
wife. ... .... -
When, instead of this, he finds him
self returning home at night to an ILL.,
kept, ill-managed house, when he sits
down opposite to frowsy woman to
dinner of over. done meat and under
done bread: when, in place of the
peace and rest he expected, he finds
that he has added all of the multifari-
GUS worries Of housekeeping to his
Own business cares. al of his ideals of
marriage and home and love are shat
tered at one fell blow.
He has struck the upgrade of mat
rimeny, |heTe it is just one long, life
less, spiritless pull. "
1t is to be the everlasting disgrace
OF woman that it is her hand that
oftenest first plucks the illusion from
matrimony.
To woman Shis is sordid view of
romantic subject, and the thing that
they never can forgive man is that he
can I be satisfied to live on love and
soda crackers. .,:.~ !.
They forget that sentiment is the
outcome of full stomach.
Nobody ever felt like making los
when he was hungry.
No man was ever romantic when he
was uncomfortable.
There are times when dinner is
bound to take the precedence over
kisses. 4.
These are sad facts, but they are
facts nevertheless.
Doubtless man ought to be able
50 so see his wife through the eye Of
affection that she will look as much
like an angel to him in q slouchy
dressing jacket as she does in dainty
chiffons. az ss.. r l::@ IL. Z.
Il. Doubtless he ought to be able to eat
leatery pie and watery potatoes and
love her still, and bless heaven for
having bestowed q treasure upon
him. ~ &, ;-. %.5l.... d !.
Doubtless he ought to look forward
with joy to returning home at night
after his hard days work and help
get the dinner. ...
Doubtless he. ought to find it en-
chanting to spend his, evenings listen.
ing 20 his wife 8 tales Of the domestic
miehaps Of the day and Of what mar.
tyr she is. sS;, ., 4.
The only trouble is he doesn't.
This isn't what he married her
For. ss.5s:s :'ts.s 5.5. b.
L turns loves young dream into q
nightmare, @ 4. n 1.sss
IL changes what ought to bea pic.
MIC into asdull, dreary, deadly level
grind. =, :55z 3$5 #
And this is all that only too many
men ever know Of married life, for
fharn Tarah oe -, z Il
eat = good meal or spend one peace-
ful and happy hour ia their own
homes. ss Eys..$ &
Every woman who 5marries faces the
question Of the kind Of d home she
will make, and deoides IL. }iSs5 f$5
She can always keep the glamour
of poetry and romance a6out. It, Of:
shsscaa make it as bald and prossic
and mono otonous and uninteresting as:
an alkali desert. 5s
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