Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-14
WoMAN's TEMPER.
Judge Rules That Woman Has .
Right to High Temper.

The Judge whose decision we con-
sidered last week sympathized with
the husband, says the~ Wisconsin
Farmer. 1t was otherwise with the
judge who heard the plea of a young
man who sought divorce on the
ground that his wife was high-tem-
percd. This judge was evidently o
man of judicial mind who had ideas of
his own, for as he dismissed the case
he said:
woman has right to be high
tempered if she wants to, and her
husband ought to be man enough to
yield her that privilege. Now, l am
not going to entertain for a moment
the idea of divorce between you peo-
pie You must go back home and
make it up. There is nothing to found
a divorce upon. YOU have four chill
dren to work for and look after. and
it is your duty to do it. What if the
wife does fly all to pieces now and
then and say mean things? Most good
women have some spirit and they
can't help showing it once in while.
wife has just as much right to pos
sess a temper as her husband has,
and the husbands duty is to indulge
her when she wants to express her
self. This young woman. the evil
dence shows, has borne four children;
she does the entire work for the fam
lily, and does it we'll. Her work about
the house is just as important as her
husbands work in the field. Mar
riage is d reciprocity contract. The
husband because he is the stronger,
has no right to lay down any more
stringent rules for his wife to follow
than he follows himself Nine times
out Of ten whcnsa wife gets angry it
is because her husband has imposed
upon her. II you would throw your
arms around your wife and kiss her
nee in a while when she has been
working hard and is red in the face
from cooking over her stove for you
and the children. perhaps you would
~ tind her SO high-tempered as you
think she is. That is all | have to
say to you: you people run along home
and go back to houskeeping.'
1t may not be good advice to tell d
woman she has a right to be high
tempered if she wants to, but the re-
mainder of the judges charge
hounds with good advice. 1t would
increase the sum of home happiness
very considerably, if husbands gener-
ally could be induced to heed his
words
An editor remarked, not long ago,
that men can be found who are will
ing to 90 to Africa as missionaries
who are not willing to take care of
a cross baly for a tired wife for half
an hour" These are the men who
complain that mothers temper has
become uncertain Mother has three
If four babies, one of them is gener-
lilly sick and she is up and down half
he night instead of resting after the
abors of the day. IL is small Won
der if she is irritable. But such is
The woman heart that WEAKNESS or
body and mind would be forgotten irl
1er husband would only give her the
tokens Of his love.
Love is the elixir Of life to a loving
woman. 1t lightens the heaviest
DAD. 1t shortens the longest journey.
t lightens the darkest hour. 1t feeds |
)oGy and soul. 1t sustains the heart |
when it faints, heals it when it is |
bruised and nerves it to suffer and be |
trong.
The man who SO lives and loves that |
lis wife is hourly conscious of his de- |
-otion rarely has to complain of bad |
emper or selfishness or any such Of |
ense against martial happiness.
The man who has a nagging wife |
las tho remedy in his own hands.