The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-04

''It's hard now," sighed the widow with her chin
on her hand and her eyes on the fire.
lizard on the girls, mean,'' explained the bache
"Not half So hard being wrongly appraised and
then readjusted and made after MARRIAGE de-
clared the widow promptly. emo knows the
shock woman receives when she discovers that she
has got to live up to standard that is half angel and
half cook. Most of the in the divorce courts
could be traced to womans deception before marriage
and mans attempt at her reformation afterward.
But she pursued thoughtfuly, eff they could all be
reduced to common denomination and labeled-'
"Labeled!'' exclaimed the bachelor. 'fWho would
dare to label them9 And where would you find
mon denomination, when two of them alikeq''
"Mascune taste,'' said the widow, looking up re-
fectively under curl, "could be the common de-
nomnator We might begin by allowing 50 per cent
for cooking and
''Men don't marry their cooks any more They
hire them,' declared the bachelor
land 30 per cent for beauty went the widow.
"Beauty'' remarked the bachelor laconically, t'is
all right-n other men, wives and in the girl you re
going to firt with. But can get used to look
ing at the homeest woman in creation after year
opposite her at the dinner table and from her
at the fireplace And he get used to the prettiest
one in the same way, until she doesn It give him
thrill. Besides, he added refectively 'most men
take their last look at their wives at the altar any
way.'
The widow sat up straight and sighed.
and
"Don It COUNT interrupted the bachelor emphati-
cally. "Of course likes woman to have sense
but not too much 1t would be pathetic' he
went on, pulling at his cigar musingly, 'never to be
able to give your wife any advice; and a who
knows everything would know too much about her hus
band to get along with him to give him that tender
devotion and glowing admiration which are neces.
sary-'
'To masculine egotism," said the widow promptly
"But,' she added helplessy, we mentioned all tho
good R Rsnt haven mentioned rood nature. sold III.
bachelor.
'Pooh!" Knocked the widow, making horn of tho
bachelors newspaper and talking thru it. "Good
ture doesn It count at ALL
cit counts hundred per cent" declared the
bachelor, "when you have it around the house. It g
the oil upon the troubled waters Of matrimony. A
smile herself into mans heart more easily
than she talk herself into it. cook herself into
it, or frt herself into it. The who's smile
when the rent is overdue, and laugh when you knock
her imported and be cheerful when you
to wake her up at o'clock rainy morning to get
your breakfast, and happy when she can't afford a
spring bonnet and perfectly conented when the cook
leaves and the furnace t work and the pipes
freeze, is treasure straight from heaven. Cheerful
ness in wife is the best household medicine the best
antdote for divorce the best aneshetic for business
worries and the best stimulant for work. cheerful
is ray of God s sunshine caught and crystal
lied into femininty She doesn't need to count one
per cent any of the other virtues if she
hundred per cent cheerfuness, because she's got