The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1910-10-12
KEEPING OUT OF RENO.
Wife, Know Hour Husband; no Rest
ts Easy.

Wife, Know Your Husband; no Rest
ts Easy.
sNkY husband is just perfect" ex-
N claimed Mrs. Newed. 'Heaven
help you." put in Mrs. Oldun
knowingly. Il nope for your sake he'll
get over it."
"Why, what do you mean? It's pos
itiyely foolish to talk that way. OF
course you're joking"
s:Joking! Not bit Of it," went on
Mrs. OIdun derisively. "You see, I
know what I'm talking about. I've
been through it. I used to think just
as you do, and If you are as sensible
as I think you are you'll never get
over it just as T did"
Mrs. Newed was on, the verge Of
tears. II think it's sinful to make
light Of the marriage relation that
way. hope my husband doesn't get
over it, and hope don't get over 1t.
He's perfect, and we're perfectly hap
py.*
'tOh, yes;s you may be happy, but
you viii never know what real happi-
ness Is until you End out that your
husband isn't perfect"
'But I tell you he is perfect"
"And tell ysu he isn't. Let me ask
you do you ever give him letters to
mai1r
eyes. Often"
every we'll II he's perfect he al
ways mails them"
"Indeed. he does. That's one Of the
things I had in mind"
'sYou mean he always says he mails
4hemw
II mean il he says he mails them he
does mail them. I hope at least he's
Huthful."
s.Not If he says he always mails
Jour letters, for there was never yet a
husband who always mails his W1fes
letters. He will lie, and all husbands
will he, so that you will continue to
think hes perfect. I venture to say
you always ask him if he mailed your
letters. Now, don't you"
Usually"
sAnd whenever you ask him he puts
on an injured air, gets little pro-
Toked?"
"a little"
That's it. He's Just like all the
rest. That's just the way my hus-
band did when he was perfect. But
then one day I got the goods on him,
as the slang phrase goes. 1 found
out positively that he had not mailed
q certain important letter"
ssWhat If he didn't?"
Everything. It was the turning
peint in our lives. I took him of his
high horse then and there. Oh, the
satisfaction in It'll You cannot i'm
agine the supreme Joy Of reducing a
husband to the level of human be-
ing. suppose your husband is very
self possessed; never loses his temper.
That's a part Of perfection"
cot course he never loses his tenn
Her."
"And so he just calmly lords it ever
you, serene and dinsuferahle in his pose
of superiority, while he looks down on
you, along with all other women. as
emotional and hysterieal."
Perhaps I have noticed just a little
of that"
ssYou must contrive some way to
make him lose his temper. The angrier
he gets the better for you. Then you
have got him forevermore."
@fYou talk like a crazy woman. I
don't see what good that could posi-
bly, do"
Good! Why it's veritable pana-
cea. Ever after, no matter what the
argument may be, you can caution him
to be careful, not to get excited and
remind him what a fearful temper he
has when he becomes aroused"
AsWen," said Mrs. Newed in disgust,
'1f that's your idea I wonder you
haven't landed In Reno long before
this"
"Reno, nonsense! That's the way to
keep out Of Reno. Talk about incom-
patibility! The only thing that is alb
solutely impossible to live in the same
house with IS perfection. ELLIS Q.
Jones in Life.
4 49, l~k II