Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1910-12-02
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Domestic Infelicity Cure
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Al timer party the other night
the conversation turned on what
molalists call the divorce evil, and
| ne various remedies suggested for
iiN. ae subject was threshed rvelnd
nd round, until finally a man turned
SO ihss placid old faced woman at his
side and said:
u,t(An ounce of practice ic worth a
ton CT theory.
Mrs. Blank, you appear to have come
nearer to having solved this modern
i'1lddle OF the Sphinx than any one
@bse Of whom l know. Oh. daughter
ol wisdom, tell us your secret?"
The woman thus addressed smiled
an enigmatioal little SMILE and then
| ieTiied:
b 0'Oh, like all other great diEcov-
arl7s, it's very simple The secret of
domestic happiness lies in following
/ the line OF least resistance. and in
| husbands and wives accepting each
ether as they are, and making the
I lost OI the goOd that is in them, in
a,ead Of trying to fashion the party
| 80 A-AN '-i'VA ljesi ONtl lnlO SOuGluIll1
he CT sc c"n never be"
'Tkat sounds very complicated to
ne. Also that one must have passed
into The sanctifed state before one
eeo&ld pat your theory into operation"
plQ e6ted another woman.
,q'' Nct at all" replied Mrs. Blank.
on TIE contrary, you will never know
what peace, and rest. and tranquility
of s9ifit are until you have tried it.
7 Nc remember what the Bible says
d aLoqtIi It being hard to kick against
! the bricks? Well, that's just what we
. 60 as long as we try to correct the
faulis snd weaknesses of our husbands
4 or wives. M .fHl-o.
we are kicking against the pricks.
fWe are eTiying to DO the impossible,
we are fi8ating a battle in which we
/ lose eve,y sldrmish, and we are keep
ing cursel9cs stirred up aggravated,
FeAaEiierated all the time and putting
ourselves IN the most unlovable posi-
he attitude before the one whose af-
I deotlon means most to us. Really, We
are killing love, for devotion can SUR
vlyc death, or absence, or sacrifice,
I any ,hing but perpetual daily nagging
|taHd fault finding.p l' Q
From the critic on the hearthstone,
! Soo1 Lord deliver u.s. murmured a
man feryently. ..
. Amen, responded a woman.
r "I speak by the book" went on
Mrs Blank, for my panacea for do
l5 5meatic misery wes the result of NY
own experience. When was young
/ woman ! married man--God rest his
| sCul-Nho was one Of Natures noble
| rfcn. There never was a man who
WAS more true and honorable. more
/ generous and tender, more of man
IN every way than he. was devoted
| TO him, and our life together would
have been idyllic except that he was
50 untidy about his clothes
~ had been brought up to put great
stress upon the way one dressed, and
A ones appearance. Ny husband lit
/ orally took no thought of what he
wore not even to see that it was
clean. His linen was always mussed
and rmnpled, his ties were strings,
/ his coat locked as if he O. had slept
! in, it, and if there was any POSSIBLE
ity Of his getting on the wrong com
! bination of garments, and showing up
at breakfast in his dress clothes and
at a ball in a Khaki shooting suit
YOU could count on him doing it,
All of this distressed me very much
! before we were married, but with the
! ,fatucu5 esctism Of a young girl | was
sure that the minute | married him |
could change all Of that and turn him
into Beau Brumnel. OF course, the
minute the marriage ceremony was
2oyer started blithely in to reform
him, and for the first five years of our
marriage | made the poor mans life
7 perfectly miserable to him about his
\ clothes. NJ
$50 went out and bought him. my
j. self, lheikind of cellars that | thought
lie. sG9uld we1r, and made hin wear
] them, in spite of his protest that they
1 chokcd him. Every time he got a
sEot on his clothes he was due for a
q lecture from me. He couldn't even lie
D down. or sit down, without my re-
u spigding him that he Was spelling The
/ crease in his trousers, or running the
] shape Of his coat ! simply bounded
/ him about his appearance, a~d the re-
\ sultCNas that | was in temper Tree
fourhs Of the time, and he was sulky,
or hurt, or offended, and we were both
So nervous and irritable that we were
! literally ready to fight at the drop Of
4 a rat H0 '--' '''.@' '
Il ,sliii1ally, one day | II had enough
.fHsEle ito pQrceiVe that [ was running
\ my whole married life without get
ting. any results, because | could no
more have tlrned my husband into a
fashion plate dude than I could have
converted him into a grand piano, SO
II Just determined to give it up and
I to call Off the Reforming business
kAnd. Il did. irI abl io u91H4f
y. Il did what / could privately in the
/, WAY of laying out clean linen, and
T Keeping his clothes as well pressed as
1ahe wanted to lie down in a new coat,
Loudid il with no protest from me.
4 if he chose 10 put on purple socks and
d. Il blue shirt and a green necktie, 1
! Offered no criticism. l just let him
90 as he pleased and reveled in all
iEthat was fine and lovely in the man
4ind shut my eyes to his clothes, and
g,to The day of his death we never had
another unpleasant word between u.s.
Your theory was borne cut in my
1 ci5e also" !" said a man. q married
one Of the most beautiful and charm
'inis women in the world, a woman who