The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1907-04-04
face of a monk.

A model husband is one who will
share every hardship or sorrow life
may bring 30 his wife, and sweetens
suffering with his words of love and
sympathy and when age and infirm-
aties rob her of her personal charms
and wrinkles take the place Of dim
pies, his love is like the holly that
blossoms in the winter OF adversely.
Tha model husband dees not allow
his selfish nature to accore to him.
self all the blessings which come
with well kept home, and permits
Ills faithful wife to bear all the bur-
dens; he does not fret and fume if a
sick child disturbs his peaceful slum-
bers, declaring urgent business
duties on the morrow will demand
his attention and he cannot 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 doc
iety of his wife and children to that
of the club, opera or dance, and
when his wife shares in these re-
creations they are pleasure to him,
when she is absent they cease to
anuse.
A model husband is not only ten
der and kind, he is manly and
brave. 1t is pitiful sight to see a
strong, well-balanced woman yoked
to a pigmy of a man who never had
an aspiration higher than his stom-
ach; who whines when he is hungry
and grunts ween he is fed.
A model hus band must be hon.
est man; not only honest with his
fellow men, thus keeping his COM
mercial reputation above reproaeh,
but honest in paying his obligations
to his family. When he allows vice
and dissipation to rob him of his
manhood and selfrespect he cheats
his wife out of her legal rights.
Model hus stands as a rule are not
the outcome Of circumstances, but
they are natural products. A kind
loving son will become, after mar
IMAGE, model husband. A selfish,
arrogant son will grow into a tyran-
ical. unreasonable husband because
he loves himself better than any one
else, and his wife will always occupy
d second place in his affections; when
their opinions clash, and the happi-
ness of either party is in the bal
ance it will be surrended, or there
will be friction in the household.
Amodel husband delights to bring
happiness to the heart of the one he
calls wife and never forgets to
cherish and protect the atom of hu
manity the law made his own. His
marriage vows are not made on
Thanksgiving to be broken on Christ
mas.
A model husband is not necessar-
tally one of the kissing kind. who
never enters his house or leaves it
without kissing his wife, and then
amuses his associates bv saying his
wife would rather have kiss than a
dollar, and as kiss has less COM
mercial value it suits both parties.
We believe in the existance of
model hus bands; in truth we have
known great. noble, self-sacrifcing
men who would scorn to impose on
any creature dependent upon them
for care and protection. Yet we
are skeptical of the abundance of
such men, and we too often find a
vast gulf between the real and the
ideal which cannot be bridged by
human prayers or human tears.
Some men may run well for a season
then drop their masks at intervals;
later these are laid aside revealing
the true character Of the man.
Then the beautiful bubble bursts
and the rainbow tints vanish in mid
air, leaving wiser and sadder wom-
en- to mourn over their shattered
idols.
Herbert Spencer, who is the best
authority on biological truths.
thinks that the eventual mixture of
the varieties of the race will produce
in America a finer type of man than
has heretofore existed in our world,
more plastic, more adaptable, more
capable Of under going the modifica-
tions needful for complete social
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