Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1909-11-11
WORDS OF WISDOM
POINTING OUT THE HIGHWAY OF
HAPPINESS.
Taking as His Text, "Feed the Brute"
Writer Gives Forth Few Facts
Worthy Of All Women's
Remembrance,

We are bowling to Miss Mary Snow
of Chicago and wondering how it hap
pens that she bears the title of Miss"
She says she holds to the view that
the highway to happiness runs through
the pantry and tho kitchen into the
dining room; that a good meal and
well-kept house are the keys to mari
tai happiness. Miss Snow is teach
er of domestic science in the public
schools of Chicago, but she ought to
know that woman of her views cans
easily land good-natured and CRATE
full brute Of the genus homo by COM
ing to Texas.
The girls of the present time are
making mistake when they fail to
value the tremendous Importance of
domestic science. The happiness of
which they dream in the married state
Will fade with the honeymoon if they
do not know how to minister t. the
tempora. needs of the boy who does
the work.
Strike a healthy man in the stun
mick with a soggy biscuit, dearie, and
he'll kick the dog before he goes to
The office; hand him waffle weighing
two pounds and of the consistency of
armor plate and he'll swear as sure as
you are born; give him steak that is
burned on the outside and raw in the
middle and tootsy-wootsy is going to
drop gill of tears before sunset;
serve him coffee of the strength of
diluted milk and he'll forget to kiss
somebody good-by at the door, and
then there'll be the devil to pay.
1t is easy enough, dearie, to hook
the scoundrel at the altar. Slip your
hand into his few times, rub your
cheek against his, and look up appeal
tngly into his eyes until in the desper-
alton of ecstasy he rips off 81 kisses
and you've got him, but that's no sign
you are going to hold him. The
strangle hold on his affections is OBJ
tanned through jam-up kitchen and
dining room work.
Feed him indifferently for a year,
and he'll be downtown till midnight,
while you are worrying with the baby,
and when he does come home, he'll
swear blue streak if you ask him
to walk the kid for couple of hours
And the first thing you know he will
be taking two meals a day at the res
taurant and spending half an hour at
each meal jollying the pretty girls who
run the cigar counters.
You can't tell us anything about the
brutes, dearies. They are the worst
ever. Their horizon of cussedness
passes far beyond mere boundlessness.
We have seen them in all their hide
BUSINESS and we have prayed and
pleaded with them for your sweet
sakes, but all in vain. We would have
gathered them together as a hen gath
ereth her brood and led them home
but for the likelihood that the very
suggestion might cause them to quit
the Democratic party.
Swing on to the cook book, girls.
Master the possibilities of the kitchen
and see that the house is sweet and
clean. Get pair of your daddy's
old breaches and learn how to patch.
and see if you can sew on button
that will have some approximate rela-
ton with the buttonhole. 1t may mean
your life's happiness, dearie, and it
may mean the brute's souls salvation.
May the Lord prosper your efforts and
bring you finally into state of happi-
ness that will bless all with whom you
come in contact. Amen.-Houston
Post.