The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1906-05-10
MODEL HUSBANDS.

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MODEL HUSBANDS.
Perhaps every married woman in our
community supposes she possesses Il
model husband, aud We should be sorry
to say anything that might be the
means of dispelling the delusion. We
feel sure no two women weigh man
kind in exactly the same scales. What
one woman may regard as virtues
another may regard as faults.
A model husband in our opinion is
not man who alone brings wealth to
his home; nor one who endows his wife
with u fine social position, but the one
who gives to his wife the best OF him
self; who appreciates her virtues and
pardons?
A model husband may be day Ia.
borer who returns 10 his home ut night
with hard earned dollar clasped in his
honest hand, and adds it to the family
fund to be used TO provide necessary
comforts for the family. He shares
faithfully with his wife whatever he
may earn by trade or profession. When
business matters perplex he does not go
home with woelul tale of his hard
ships and turn the bright side of his
character to his associates, hut he
comes into his home with a cheerful face
that inspires his wife with new cour-
age after day of perplexing duties
which women alone have to meet, and
in their monotony become distastelul
to the most patient of them.
a model husband does not hang up
his fiddle Mt the door, to be taken up as
he goes out to entertain outsiders, and
come into his home as devoid of any
suggestion of music as is the face of a
monk.
A model husband Is one who will
share every hardship or sorrow life may
bring TO his wife, and sweetens suffer-
ing with his words of love and sympa-
thy, and when age and inlirmaties rob
her of her personal charms and wrinkles
take the place of dimples, his love is
like the holly that blossoms in the win.
ter of adversely.
The model husband does not allow
his selfish nature TO accord to himself
all the blessings which come with a
we'll kept home, and permit his faithful
wife to bear all the burdens; he does
not fret and fume II sick child dis
turbs his peaceful slumbcrs, declaring
urgent business duties on the morrow
will demand his attention and he canno,
lose sleep, yet can spend several nights
at the club or lodge each week and
never complain of heavy eyelids
A model husband prefers the society
of his wife and children to that OF club
opera or dance, aud when his wife
shares in these recreations they are i
pleasure 10 him, when she is absent
they cease to amusc.
a model husband is not only tender
and kind, he is manly and brave 10 il
"A pitiful sight to sec strong, well bal
anced woman yoked to pigmy Of ;
man who never had an aspiration
higher than his stomach; who whine
when he is hungry and grunts when hi
is fed.
A model husband must be an homes
man; not only honest with his fellow
men, thus keeping his commercial rep
utation above reproach, but honest il
paying his obligations TO his family
When he allows vice and dissipation
TO rob him of his manhood and self re
: spect he cheats his wife out of her lega
rights.
Model husbands as u rule are not th
outcome of circumstances, but they ar
natural products. A kind, loving so
will become after marriage, mode
husband. A selfish, arrogant son vii
grow into tyranical. unreasonabl
, husband because he loves himself bette
than any one else, and his wife will a
ways occupy second place in his affe'
tions; when their opinions clash, an
the happiness of either party is in th
balance hers will be surrended. or ther
will be friction in the household.
A model husband delights TO briD
, happiness TO the heart OF the one h
calls wife and never forgets TO cheris
and protect the atom Of humanity th
law made his own. His marriage vow
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