The sun., 1908-12-27

he MAKES GOOD RESOLUTIONS
FOR THE NEW YEAR.

EV" HG VIEW ErHs .
Deed ReselItiGHs fer His WireJ Net Hinl
seIf-she ReJeets His Plan for Making
Hssuh Happier In ueae IiseeuraRe
meat Of MIR. Gnagg 10 Consequence
sir. Snags. mellowed by holiday inau.
eh6esi makes guarded resolutions for ths
approaching New Year In the folloRiul
some~hst qualified terms;
Well, little woman, here we are with
another Christmas and New Years upor
us. chr 'S p great season all right.
/ Season whom q ohap sort o. feels like
thinking things over; like standing of
isnd. taking an impartial look at himself
and htF actions and--and all like that
and q fellow that surveys his doing
for whole year and then pats himesli
onthe back and says that he's been every.
thing that he ought to be--oh, we'll, there's
something twisted about fellow like that
OF course. Bound to be. y.,t
Now youth have observed Of course
during all these years that never tried
TO stake out any claim to being perfect
II there's any ons little thing that I've
right to brag about, why. it's the fact
that I'm always perfectly fair. don't
see myself In any false or glamourops
light. as you know.
4 1t may be-I don't cay outright that II
is, but IL may be-there are times. my dear
whom I'm Just teenchy-we6nchy bit
irritable; but 1 guess you understand
all about that. You make allowance
guess, for the business worries that
beset a chap.
Nothing is further from my, nature
as you well know. than irritability OF
peeyishnsss or anything remotely resem-
bling those things; and you know per-
fectly we'll what my opinion is Of man
that picks on q woman. think that
drawing and quartering 10 too blamed
good for him. that's what / think.
That's why am sort of making UP my
mind that, during the coming year, I'm
going to cut out even such minor little
manifestations of petulance as perhaps
am sometimes led into giving expression
TO through business annoyances and set
backs Going too. sure.
Now. when a fellow makes UP his mind
in q matter Of this kind, why, the essential
thing Is that he should have. above all
things. the sympathy and the cooperation
of his wife. But the great trouble with
women, as have discovered after a good
deal Of careful observation, is that they
possess a sort of fundamental unfairness
which seems absolutely to prevent them
from making the slightest acknowledge
mont Of their own faults. They simply
cannot own up to it that they possess any
faults. Sometimes am disposed TO be-
heve that even when they do perceive
that they're in the wrong they refuse to
own up to 1t out Of pure stubbornness.
Now take yourself for example. my dear.
I'll bet that IL tabulated statistics had
been kept on all of the various little argu-
ments that we've had during the last year
any impartial referee would decide that
you had been completely and irremediably
In the wrong as to at least % per cent. of
those arguments. Yet your femininity
never permitted you to come right across
and own up that you were wrong in any
Of these little domestic conflicts.
That's why, my dear. / take 1t upon
myself to offer you a few little suggestions
WIiCus u yOu iotCn W ti1Dfu ttlG
spirit and endeavor to follow them out.
win make things a whole heap better
around here during the coming year.
Now. in the first place. little girl, you've
got great habit Of forever answering
, fellow back. Bad habit. that Vicious
bad habit. One Of the worst habits
know anything about. You seem to feel
hat you've just got TO rap in an answer
10 every little word that say in tone
of good natured criticism or raiIlery or
hat you1l just explode.
That's what starts everything In the
way OF fusses and arguments and so on
around here-that answering back habit
IF yours; and am bound to say that
here is never any meat whatever in these
answers that you get out Of your system
Iolely for the sake Of prolong ging the
argument. They're pure piftie always,
md nothing else.
II feel called upon to comment oc-
on the way things are managed
Iround here, why, it's up to you to under
tand that such comment is meant all In
Iood part and it's your business to give
ar to what I'm saying and not to chop
'ack replies at me just for the sake OF
aving your face OF something like that.
Take, for example. your e1travagance.
four extravagance in a whole lot Of
Running this apartment. for
You ought to know very well--and some
lines am firmly Of the opinion that you
10 know. although you persist in denying
that you spend at the very smallest
about twice as much money
a running this apartment rs you ought
o spend. Yet when take an occasional |
uryey Of the wild extravaganoes In which |
ou constantly indulge around here. and |
lbmit carefully worded and entirely !
Unable criticism in the premises. why
on infallibly fare up and talk back and
OF in general as II you considered that |
ou were badly abused woman.
Why sometimes. in such circumstances,
uu even resort to that oowardiy fem
line expedient Of crying. Blubbering.
'abbins at your eyes and all that sort OF
hing. You only do that like all other
omen. of course. when you are firmly
ornsred; but it's oowardly.
It's taking the meanest kind Of an ad-
antage Of husband. lisa deliberate
tempt to put your husband in an 1n-
,orthy and a contemplate light. It's
rafty attempt, always. on your part to
Witch the thing around and TO put It up
, me absolutely.