El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-12-31

Nv THAT constitutes real happi-
w ness? Life has many avenues
for enjoyment; for amuse-
ment; for passing pleasures.
But for real enduring happiness, we
must look to one place-the home.
We may go out and enjoy the thea
ter; a visit with friends; an ocean
voyage; travel, and sightseeing. But
when we turn our footsteps homeward.
unless we find love and contentment
waiting at the threshold, and unless
they go with US from room to room.
and lie down with US in our beds, we
have not found the solitaire jewel
Happiness.
There are hundreds of successful
men in the land who give their families
money, position and all the pleasures
which wealth and independence can
supply.
But they do not give them happiness;
because they do not give them COM
partnership and sympathy.
A woman who was possessed OF SUI
ficient wealth to enable her to obtain
whatever she wished. and who was free
to go and come. and to entertain at
will, confessed to friend that she was
a very lonely woman
My husband cares only for his bust
ness she said; "or for his clubs. He
mas 1OSI ali TASTE LOT quiet, QOAncSlAC
joys. He does not know what to do il
he spends an evening at home. He has
rot cultivated a taste for reading or
music; society bores him; so he goes to
his club; or he goes hunting; or he
seeks some inaccessible spot with lot
of men, and goes fishing when he
wants a change He gives me money
to carry out my own desires; and he
thinks this is being a good husband
He cannot understand that 1 am lonely
for his companionship; and that want
some of the oldtime hours he gave me
when We were engaged, and when we
were married; hours when he hurried to
my side as soon as he left his office.
and when just to be with me and talk
of little personal things was a pleasure
to both Of US He became absorbed in
business, and it drew him farther and
farther away from me, and he felt that
the children filled my life: But the
children are now grown and have
pleasures of their own, and I am the
loneliest of women
Surely this man cannot be called
successful man.
The Drifting Man.
If you are a young married man and
you find yourself drifting away from
the home pleasures and caring less and
less to be with your family, halt and
right about face.
Stop and think the matter over.
Where are you going and what are
You seeking that is better than the
things you are leaving behind?
There can be no keener anguish for
a woman who is passing out from the
green hilltops of youth into the valleys
of mature life than to feel that she is
passing alone without the close COM
partnership Of the man who chose her
from the whole world to be his COM
panion.
When she sees him losing interest in
her society; when he shows satisfac-
tion that she is entertained in some or
any way which enables him to find his
own distractions elsewhere; when he
goes out from his home with more ami
nation and seeming interest than he
enters it; when he expects money to
supply her with everything she needs,
and shows a restless discomfort or irri-
liability when she wants him to be
with her. these are the nails which are
driven into the flesh of the loving wo-
man. life crucifies her on the cross
of marital disappointment
Frequently the fault lies with the