El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-02-18

pers in this world We do not know
what provision is made for them IN the
next.
1t is always well to go into a new
land with fun purse, and it Is well to
enter the next world with a good sup
ply OF spiritual wealth and not as a
bankrupt.
Meanwhile. there is the scoIding hus-
band to carry his remorseful heart
through life Tt Is good enough for
him and yet we cannot help plying
him
He Is so sorry he said what he did.
He never dreamed she would take II so
to heart. He would give all he pos
sesses to go back and live that night
over; and do, oh so differently He
would understand her so much better
and be so much better II she were alive
today
Sometimes the only way a wife can
make her husband understand her Is
to die Then he sees and adnfres all
her sweet. tender qualities
I like to think the world is peopled
with happy wives and husbands
know many. Many more exist unknown
TO me- Happiness IS oftentimes secret
i've and quiet; misery is noisy and COM
municative- Happiness seeks no conf
dent; unhapptness wants to be sym
pathized with.
Misery cries aloud to the world. and
so we grow to think that unhappiness
is the rule and happiness the exception.
But I do not believe it.
Still. in this overfun void and "over-
civilized" state of society there are hun
dreds Of unhappy wives to be found:
wives who feel often on the verge OF
acts as desperate as that OF the poor
little woman who forms the subject OF
this sketch, and husbands who are as
bhndly thoughtless and as unKind as
the one whose irritable words\ drove
her to her death.
If you who read these lines are a
man and a husband. ask yourself Just
what you are doing toward making
your home the peaceful place a home
should be. What are you doing TO rem
der your wife happy at the thought OF
seeing you each evening" Are you
praising her for every good quality she
possesses and thanking her for all her
efforts TO please your
Are you telling her she is a good wife
and good mother, or are you finding
and ignoring her great virtues?
Do not imagine a good woman is sat
isfied with virtues own reward The
consciousness OF her own worth - not
sufficient TO keep her happy If you are
silent and never seek to impress upon
her mind the fact that you realize ner
good qualities And this is especially
true if you take every opportunity 10
assure her that you see her faults.
Why not study your wife as you
study your partner? Why not be as
tactfuI and as patient with her as you
are with him2 Why not entertain and
amussS her as you do your customers
and patrons?
If you called at your neighbours house
and found anything amiss. how suaVe
and a1niable you would be about II
Are you equally so when things go
amiss at your own home?
If not, why not2
I can never understand how wife
or husband can be more thoughtful OF
outsiders than they are OF each other.
I cannot understand how they can be
iu-tempered and faultfinding with each
other and courteous and cOnciliatory to
strangers
And remember always-the real bus
mess OF life is the making OF a happy
home. Everything else is secondary to
that; for. when you come TO sift the
whole chaff of existence everything
goes to the winds but the happiness we
have had at home.
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