The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-19

to get a patent adding machine or
human cash register
She expected to have some one to
talk to. some one who would be in
terested in her and sympathize with
her and make life brighter and hap
pier for her.
she finds that she is united to
man who grunts out replies to her
over his coffee and rolls in the morn
ing because he is so busy looking
over the financial column in the
newspapers he has no time to talk.
AS soon as breakfast is over he
gives her a perfunctory peck on the
cheek in place of a kiss, because his
mind is too absorbed in planning the
business of the day for him to realize
her existence, much less to be com
scious of any thrill Of love or regret
in parting from her.
At night he returns too tired to talk,
too tired to go to any place of amuse-
ment. too spent with the efforts Of the
day to even think OF such Il thing as
amusing or entertaining his wife, and
with his only desire to be left undis-
turbed to peruse the financial edition
of the evening paper, when he does
not go out to meet other business men.
and plan for the morrow.
If his wife dies. he regrets it. but
he consoles himself by plunging deep
er and deeper into business.
He does not commit suicide over
her grave. He only blows out his
brains when his business goes to
smash.
Is it any wonder that woman
married to a man utterly absorbed IN
his occupation finds married life dull
This is q mistake. Women require
something more than money to make
them happy They are not willing
to trade off love for a fine house, and
their husbands partnership for
diamond brooch.
1t is a nice, thrilling. exciting sort
of existence. isn't it, for a woman to
spend her days trying to make COM
Portable home for a man VINO IS TOO
busy to notice her efforts to please
him, and to pass her evenings in the
society of one who is buried ia q news
paper?
OF course, men say that the reason
they work so hard is because it re-
quires so much money to support
their wives
TO this women may well retort
that the reason that their husbands
have to furnish them so much money
| is because they give them nothing
else.
When a man is disappointed in his
wife, he generally takes to drink.
When q woman is disappointed in
her husband, she takes to extraVa-
gance.
Many a woman goes out and buys
| imported gowns because she feels neg
lected and miserable and is trying 10
stife her heart by covering it up with
chiffon and velvet
Many a woman would joyfully ex-
change her automobiles and sables
for q certainty that she could raise
the same srt of heart thrill in her
husband that five point rise in stocks
does.
A man thinks that he can make a
woman happy bv giving her the
/ things that money buys Hence he
| has a clear conscience in absorbing
| himself in business as long as he
! lavishes luxuries~ upon her.
a man who wants to make his wife
| happy and to make married life In
| teresting to her must put her first
in his heart. and his business second.
If he Will do that he viii find that he
| does not have to work so hard and
that it does not require so much 70
! support a wife.
| One Of the chief reasons why mar
ried life is dull is because it is all
! v tl- and no play in the family circle
t DOROTHY DIX.