The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1908-01-23
HUSBANDS LOVE.
A Man Tells the Women How to Retain
lt-Be Cheerful, Meet Him
with a Smile,

It-Be Cheerful Meet Him
with a Smile.
"AIl or you people who dope out advice
Go women about how to lac good wiyca
and make their husbands happy and hold
mems affections mr." dead wrong ON the
tips You hand out" said a married man
to me the other day you've got the
whole proposition figured out wrong,
and you don't play the right quality to-
/ Win.
Every lihcty," replied. II coufy~-
4 with shame and contrition that / have
never been "a husband or even "a man.
and therefore aS a matter of fact | can
only throriZc about the qualities that ar,
most desirable in a wife
"Oh, YOU are not the only one that's
of the track" responded the man con
4 SoLngly There are others. Now take
the theory for instance, that the way for
/ 20 woman to keep mans affections
cuchcd is 10y keeping young and bcauti-
| full. Sounds like a winner, doesn't il?
| But as Il matter of fact provided mans
wife is nice aud tidy looking, aud viii
| pass muster in crowd, that's all lie
cares about.
MEN talk a lot about worshiping
! beauty. but they don't marry for it, rs
YOU can readily perceive If you will
take a glance around among the matrous
/ 81 your acquaintance, hdll Ol whom are
T., ugly enough To- break looking glass il
they'd take Il real hard Squiut into il.
! And rs for "a woman getting fat or thin,
La doesn't make a bit Of difference in u
husbands feelings toward her \ mans
affection for his wife doesn't wabble up
land down the scales.
"Ihcu there's Il theory about a
woman keeping her husband fascinated
by reading mp on whatever topic lie is in
|,urr-trd iu. ~ that when he comes home
size cam turn ON the same brand of con-
vrr~atJou that lie has been INDUCING in
HlI day. Rot, utter rot OF course il is
nice lo have a wife who understands
what you are talking about and can see
The point of your Jokes and has some
choice piece of scandal that dear little
hobbies but that's as far MS it goes.
The working day generally gives a
man all the shop talk he wants, and
when lie cOrags home he's glad to get II
change aud hear about how cute the
baby did aud what the ncighb0rS are
going to have for dinner, and the iutest
particulars of the ClOpCmcnt of Mrs.
Blank with Tom Smithcrs. or any other
choice piece of scandal and dear little
wife has picked up nj the female prayer
meeting or a pink tea.
"Thpn'S there's the huary iron bound
theory that is taught every girl along
with her catcchisuI, that the quiutcs-
scnC of virtue in 4 woman and the
Whu', duty of a wife is to be good
housckccpcr, and feed her husband. In
the innocent fancy of a young girl hus-
band figures ag 4 rayening beast that
can only be pacatcd and made gentle
enough for her TO handle by throwing
him hcafstpak and mushrooms and
chicken en- casserole, and things of that
sort.
Now far be II from me to discourage
any bride in her struggle with "A cook
,,.l,,t al,
and Il Wcll-kept house and a good din
ucr 90 a long way toward keeping matri-
mUny from being a failure, but they are
not the whole works. Not by Il long
shot With II good restaurant on almost
every corner II man can always get
plenty TO eat, and if he is married to
tne of the women who just never can
! learn to keep m orderly house, all that
| he's got to do is TO pick her up and mi
! CRATE to an apartment hotel, where
trained specialists have solved the phys
I zeal comfort question
$50 the housekeeping problem does
not cut the ice it is supposed to in
domestic happiness, but I'll tell you
what does. I'll tell you the quality in
Il wife that's got beauty and Intelligence
and cooking beat n city block. I'll tell
you what is the real sine qua non in a
wifc-thc one thing that, if a woman
possesses it., makes her husband happy
. him miserable. and that is cLccrfulness.
Yes, ma'am, ChcertuucNs, plain old
4 fashioned ChCcriulncss. The kind that
meets Il man at the front door with Il
/ smile that seems to say, This is good
old world. and you are the best thing
in it, and that can find fun and humur
/ in little makeShiIts and economies. ana
can turn the misadventures of the day
/ If the cat happens 10 fall into the cream
or the cook hrcaks the parIor vase-iuto
a screaming farce that will make you
/ die of laughing as she rccounts it.
THAT'S the quality in a woman that
/ IS all wool and yard wide, and that
doesn't wear out nor shrink in the wash
! of married If" It's the knowledge that
10 is going to ct jolly welcome thai
hastens man home ut night. IT, know
ing that when he tells his wife things
/ have gone all wrong in business. she's
going to turn a bright smiling face on
him and tell him that it is all right,
and that he'll pull through and that i
will turn out for the best that binds him
to her with hooks of steel.
you bet man with that sort Of
wife isn't moscying around hunting for
an affinity. He's found her. She may
not be much to look ut, and she may not
have line of intellectual conversation
that would make anybody sit up. and
she may he little shy on housekeeping.
but she's there with the suu~hiuy goods
that warm the cookies Of his heart and
she's got Linn nailed tight ami fast, Hey
boyst'
"That's .o." responded the other men.
"IIalf Of thc men who wander away
from thor own urrsidps arc on a sril
hunt for SOME cheerful woman with
whom tO Spend their evenings - burO-
thy Dix i'm New Orleans Plcayuuc.