The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-15
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husband has no right to expect for
giveness for wrongs which he
would not himself forgive. X. S.
McRae, E1021 Twelfth avenue.
SECOND.
Editor The Press-A husband or
wife q fail to see any difference in
their relations to each other)
should forgive everything and any
thing the other may do, if he or she
is truly repentant, for the marriage
VOW says until death do us part:
Children should cement the tie
more closely, though l do not think
it is always the case, but in justice
to them and to ourselves we should
close the door on past mistakes.
Our lives are what we make
them and we should not allow the
mistakes of another to mar OUR
own. Children reared in a home
where there is continual discoEd
get an entirely wrong view of life.
A home founded on true love will
have nothing enter that cannot be
forgiven. and if this is not the case,
it is not true home.
A Wife and Mother!
THIRD. 8 !
Forgiveness exists because love
exists, not because children are
born or marriage vows are made
A woman believing in a perfect ex
istence would always continue to be
actuated. by love toward her hus
band, not by feelings of revenge
and only if he had been hypocriti
cal would she be likely to feel bit
terness.
But a woman who believed tina;
this imperfect existence ends al
would, on most occasions, probably
seek to furnish her husband in
some way.
Woman, emotionally, is mans SUI
perior; whilst man, in intellectual
creative force, is her superior. II
men and women, individually, gave
of their surplus stock to aid each
others deficiency, then they each
may be said to do an equal share
in advancing the common good
They should therefore receive
equal treatment in things which
like forgiveness, are dependent
upon the human will. F. S. W.
FOURTH.
For baby's sake could l forgive
could l forget, all wrong?
AS cuddle my darlings closer
while l sing their cradle
song:
AS / gaze into the big brown eyes
and stroke the chestnut curls
Ny heart pleads gently for the
father of my precious girls
So much, indeed, and yet not all,
could forgive in life;
But a brutal, drunken father de
serves not the love OF a
good, true wife.
The husband who's unfaithful-for
gets his baby, wife and
home
There is no pardon for this sin; he
should be left alone.
Nor should a man expect more OF
his wife than she should OF
him.
But, when blessed by the vows OF
wedlock, each should shun
all sin;
For when both are good and true,
happiness is sure to reign
Each will shield the other from
life's heartaches, grief anp
pain. 81
Respectfully, Mrs. l.. Newman,
I'll w. Providence Ave. Il
FIFTH. m
A true and loving wife will try
and forgive everything and any
thing her husband may do, for the
sake of their children. Show me q
child that does not need the protec'
ton and support Of its father. =,
Children are Gods flowers. ana
they are the ties that bind through
all eternity. II
If a husband fails In his duty an4
brings disgrace to the home, where
his influence is evil instead of good,
a wife will leave with their chill
dren while deep in her heart she
forgives.
No: men and women are not
in the same position concerning
forgiveness. A woman forgives a
husbands infidelity, becoming
wife in name only. still giving her
children a fathers support, which
enables her to better educate the
children, for Napoleon says, THE
fate of a child is always the work of
his mother"
But If woman commit this deed,
is she fit to be a mother. No! For
the mother in her office holds the
key of the soul, and it is she VINO
stamps the coin of character. Mrs.