Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1908-08-21
FOR MARRIED MEN
OTHERS

HUSBAND Again, is the lille VI
an article in the current number of
the Ladies' Home Journal.
If all the husbands, and all the
men who are ever going to be
husbands in this broad land, were
to read and digest the things set
forth in this article, there would
surely ensue a most tremendous
boom in domestic happiness and
a slump in the divorce market.
The woman who tells the story
starts out by saying she has been
married 80 years, that she and her
husband probably live as happily
as the average married couple, and
that she expects they will go down
the years together till death breaks
their bond.;
But" she says, eff l were
young woman and knew as much
as | do now, i would not marry my
husband again"
Then she tells why she would
not. .
Condensed, here are the reasons.
Read them, we married men, and
We who will someday take wives:
Because her husband did not
manifest affection for her after
marriage, but let her take it for
granted.
Because, instead of waiting upon
her in little household matters, he
allowed and expected her to wait
upon him. z"
Because he made her ask him for
every nickle she got to spend and
account afterwards for what she
had done with it.
Because he was less polite and
less courteous to her than to any
other woman Of his acquaintance.
Because he often "shut her up
when she wanted to talk with him,
by taking no interest in what she
said, or by mumbling at her from
behind newspaper.
Because he smoked to excess, fl
ling the house with the stale odor
of4bad tobacco.
Because he never complimented
her on her dress, her cooking or
her housekeeping.
OH" you may say, Mr.. Hus-
band, no wonder she wouldn't mar
ry him again. He's a pupil"
No, he's not. He's Just an or
binary, selfish, self-satisfied hus-
band, perfectly ignorant of the
longings ana the needs Of a wo-
mans soul, and miserably unaware
of his ignorance.
How about you, who think him
a pup9 Now answer?
Do you ever give your wife more
than one kiss at a time? Do you
make love to her as you did when
you we're winning her? Or do you
think it would be silly?
Do you frequently tell her how
pretty she looks; how well some
new gown becomes her, after she
has worked Oh it for days; how
good a meal has been set before
! you? Do you?
Do you expect her to live con
tentedly in a snudge Of tobacco
smoke and to enjoy kissing q mouth
that smells like a quart Of cigal
butts?
DO you give her regular allow
ance out Of your salary, or do yoI
| dole her a dollar oil five-spo
/ when she asks you for it?
Do you talk with her evening
about the little things she want
Ito tell you about the little thing
i Of her daily life that she want
4 otalk over with you because 70,
I have elected yourself to be her com
Irade and companion and churn D
you
Do you, in every detail Of dali,
4 life, do every service you can 70
Iher
Answer to yourself and decid,
whether your wife would have any
\ particularly good reason for marry
i ing YOU If she had it to do owe
i again and knew you as she ha
4 learned to know you ia the year
4 since YOU married her.
Concludes the writer Of this in
teresting article
IS al woman III love is the mos
4 tractable creature iii the world
Why, then can the man not keep he
1 IS love- That he does not eve
!. tfy to do 30 is the common histor
a 81 welded life. "a
True bsolutel " true and VIA
j 4 commentary on the foIl and iii
stupid iity as well as the Sci fishness
/ OF man.
or sometimes the wife does id
~ patientl \ along y the END. cal