The leader., 1905-05-10
The Manufacture Of ] Husband
BY DOROTHY DIX.
Eoepyrlelit, lats by " i Hearst

IL is i platitude to say that
without health d man will be.
neither agreeable to live with,
easy to get along with nor capa-
Bile Of holding bis own id busi-
ness. yet the majority Of women
fail to take this very palpable fact
into consideration.
Most of che irrltabiIity Of mans
kind is nerves, most of the pes
lsimism is dyspepsia, and most Of
1.-THE bankruptcy is due to bad
looking. Napoleon gorged him
lself at supper and The fate Of.
Europe was changed. A lobster
q Ia Newburg silenced the music
I0f the sweetest composer America
| has ever known.
lnnumeIable geniuses have been
done To death on fried things, and
land many ! man fails ID business
because he is too stuffed and full
Iand dull to see an opportunity ,
land TO inert to go alter it, or be-
cause he is so depressed, mentally
Iand physically, BIZ Indigestion
that he lacks the courage and hope
to tackle q hard proposition.
It is literal truth that most OF
our conduct is decided not BIZ rea-
lson or principle, but by what we
eat for breakfast.
The man who can sit down to a
breakfast table covered with a
lmussy, spotted cloth, and partake
lof muddy coliee, and soggy bis
cuits, and watery potatoes, aud
leathery steak, and still maintain.
/ "a cheerful and atfectionate atti-
tude toward his wife, is more
than human.
He is demigod, with the stom-
ach of an ostrich.
If, after eating such break
fast, he goes down town to quar-
rel with his clerks, insult his best
customers, refuse gilt-edge invest
ments and let golden opportuni-
ties for extending his trade or
buying corner lots for a song slip
by him, his wife has no right to
reproach him for his lack Of imam
cial sagacity.
| It is logical outcome Of his
breakfast, which has filed him
with dyspepsia and gloom, and
lgiVen him dark blue outlook
that makes him feel that the coun-
try is going to the dogs, and
eyerything is bound to come to
Isnash.
II you will look over your list
LOT acquaintances, and see the men
who are branching out in business
land pushing their trade, who are
acquiring valuable pieces Of real
estate and who are rising in their
professions, you will find that al
most without exception they are
men with good digestion men
who feel well and strong and who
are optimistic of the future.
The success of professional men
is even more dependent on what
lthey eat. Many a brilliant law
| yer's eloquence is fatally choked
Ion underdone pork chops, and his
liability to see a point obscured By
bile.
The reason that we never hear
again ofso many promising young
poets after they are married is be-
cause they married bad cooks.
Even the tint of Clergyman S
theology whether he breaches
the glories of Heaven and the love
of God or hell FIRE and damnation
depends on the kind Of house
keeper his wife is.
And the world loves an opti-
mist, and pays him to prophesy
lglad things for it. We revere
Carlyle, but we buy the writings
of Laura Jean Libbey.
The woman. then, who wishes
her husband to be success must
keep him ia good physical condi-
tion. OF course an adult, intellis
gent man ought I'd have enough
lsense to know what to eat and
how to take care Of himself.
Theoretically he does. Practi-
cally be has no more idea Of it
/ than babe IN arms. Very few
linen know enough to come 10 out
aof the rain, or to change their
shoes when they get their feet
|daInp. Besides, it is the custom
Aef the American husband to eat
j what is set before him and ask no
Iqnestions for peace's sake.
This leaves the matter Of her
Husbands health almost entirely
lin the wife's hands, and, viewed
from even tho most sordid stand
point Of wishing him TO make as
much money for her I'd spend as
possible, it behooves her to keep
/ the machine IN good working or
lder.
The old superstition that wlleth.
Fer one was well or i'll depended
upon a N mysterious dispensation Of
Providence is fortunately dissi-
pated.
We know now that our health
land that Of our families is almost
entirely the result Of Che intellis.