The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1908-06-25

that had that flavor; one would be as comfort
able walking on tacks as living with man wh'
is never suited, never praising but always nnd
ing fault.
| have never seen an instance of a very happy
marriage when the woman was the bread win
ner, if the husband strong, we'll man. Il
woman makes a home and cares properly fol
the husband and children who should be in it
she has business enough within the walls of heI
house. Whatever she does outside is just so much
taken from the strength and thought that belong
rightly to the home and it's inmates. From the
beginning ii has been womans part to care for
what the man provided, and this instinct is
rooted back many centuries, and is part of the
human race to-day. So surely as it is violated
for anything but the greatest need the woman
and the man suffer for the violation. She grows
10 deSpise the man who does not provide for
her-and he loses his self-respect
The woman who works with all her might to
help man make money, makes a great mis-.
take if she is seeking happiness, for the money
is bought at the cost Of the character develop.
ment i'll tenderness and unselfshness that the
man needs and gets when he looks after his
wife as he wants to when he marries. 1t should
be some very strong cause that leads her to take
from him this right to an unselfsh manhood. The
woman who makes true home does more for
the man than she does by going into the labor
mart, and she cannot do both.
1t is true that the happiness of married life
depends good deal upon the woman--more ]
think, than upon the man-because her strength
lies in just and proper using of the powers of
heart and spirit OF course men sometimes are
trying and dense, but have seen most unprom.
Using material made into husbands who were de-
lightful and the envy of women who had not
known or cared how to use what was theirs to
build with.
One cannot be happy with an unbearably jeaI
GUS man who suspects his wife at every turn
but the man with minor faults such as asking
What did you do with the SO cents l gave YOU
last week?" may be cured by the right handling
1t may be hard to be happy if you have black
eyes and hair, when your husband takes pleasure
IN calling your attention to beauties with blue
eyes and golden hair, and tells you how he al
ways admired that style of beauty, but think
what compliment he paid you in preferring you
In spite OF his fancy for another type of come.
liness
Jealousy, brutality and vulgarity are so strik. |
ingy offensive that all the world admits there |
Is no chance for happiness with them but they
wreck few lives comparatively. If marriage is
failure 1t is not in any great measure because
OF these but because it is allowed to become
commonplace. Those who keep touch of ro
nance in their relations do not find welded bliss
myth. 1t is well to preserve ones Illusions.
BESIDE the loss of all poetry out of the mutua,
Lfe, another cause for the unhappiness in mar
rage that makes it seem a failure is lack of
courtesy OF the consideration that is given in.
suncuVey by TIE sweetheart who counts it no
pore TO listen to her lovers stories, nor finds IL
olncult TO laugh at them, though she hears them
over and over. Copyright by Joseph b Bowles.) Il