Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-25
A Self-Made Merchant
Getting Wise to Women's Way-The
Handwriting Domestic Partner Al
WAYS Has Something New to Spring.

ways Has Something New TO sprung.
I'm still learning he n TO trent an 0ii
wife, and 50 j can't give you many
pointers about young one, for, while
I've been married as hong as I've been
in business and while know all the
curves Of the great American hog,
your mas likely to spring new one
on me tomorrow. No man really know
anything about women except Wld
over, and he forgets it when he get.
ready to marry again. And no woman
really knows anything about men ex
cept a widow, and she's got to forge
it before she's willing to marry again
The one thing you can know Is that az
a general proposition a woman is III
tie better than the man for whom she
cares. for when a woman's bad there's
always a man at the bottom OF It. anu
when mans good there's always
woman at tile bottom of that too.
The fact Of the matter is. that while
marriages may be made in heaven,
lot of them are lived In hell and end in
picked out good woman he holds
four hearts. and lie needn't be afraid to
draw cards II he's got good nerve. Ii
he hasn't, he's got no business to be
sitting in games of chance. The best
woman in the world will begin trying
out man before she's been married
to him tnenty-foul hours, and unless
he can mile over the top of four
flush anG raise the ante she's going to
rake in t Z breeches and keep them.
The great thing is to begin right.
Marriage il close corporation, and
unless fellow gets the controlling
interest at the start he can't pick it up
later. The partner who owns 81 per
cent Of the stock in any business is
the boss, even If the other is allowed
to call himself president. There's only
two jobs for man in his own house
ones boss and the others Office boy
and fellow naturally falls into the
one for which he's fitted.
OF course when speak Of fellows
being boss in his . home simply
mean that, in a broad way, he's going
to shape the policy of the concern.
When man goes sticking his nose in
to the running Of the house he's apt to
get it tweaked, and while he's busy
drawing 1t back out of danger he's go
ing to get his leg pulled too. You let
your wife tend to the housekeeping.
and you focus on earning money with
which she can keep house. OF course
in one way It's mighty nice of man
to help around the place, but it's been
my experience that the fellows who
tend to all the small jobs at home never
get anything else to tend to at the
office. In the end it's usually cheaper
to give ali your attention to yeur bust
ness and to hire plumber.
You don't want to get it into your
head, though, that because your wife
hasn't any Office hours she has soft
thing. A lot of men go around sticking
out their chests and wondering why
their wives have so much trouble with
the help when they are able to handle
their clerks so easily. II you really
want to know, you lift two Of your men
out of their revolving chairs and hang
one over forty horsepower cook stove
that's booming along under forced
draft 80 that your dinner won't be
late. with, turkey that's gobbling for
basting in one oven and cake that's
gone back on you in low, underhand
way in another and sixteen different
things boiling over on top and mixing
up their smells, and you set the other
at a twelve hour stunt Of making all
the beds you've mussed and washing
all the dishes you've used and cleaning
all the dust you've kicked up, and you
boss the whole while the baby yells
with colo over your arm-you just try
this with two of your men and see
how long it is before there's rough
house on the Wabash. Yet lot Of
fellows come home after their wives
have had 4 day Of this and blow
around about how tEed and over
worked they are and wonder why
home isn't happier. Don't you ever
forget that it's blamed sight easier
70 keep c00l IN Ifoht 81 an eiectfAc A@A
than cook stsve ana that you can't
subject the host temper in the world
to 600 degrees r. without warming 1t
up bit. And don't you add to your
wife's troubles by saying how much
better you coud do it, but stand pat
and thank the Lord you've cot snap.
Getting a Square Deal.
It's ple.... .ss.s,. 70 Know, how to