The Washington herald., 1911-04-30

far more disgusting to his wife than tho
most slatternly woman could be to her
husband, for women put more stress on
appearances than men do.
He Does Not Realize Il.
No man who went counting with Q
three days stubble Of bread on his face
and fingers in need Of the manicure
would ever get married, but q man ac-
tuaiiy mas the nerve to suppose his wife
really likes to kiss him when his face
FEELS rs II she had kissed q nutmeg
crater. He doesn't realize that she "a
grittins her teeth and only going through
the outward form Of osculation because
she considers 1t her duty. -
"A man also wins a woman hv rat-
words. There is no fiattery too fuI.
some for a man to hand out n the
woman he is counting. He tells her that
she Is che most beautiful. the most won.
derfui, the most angelic creature ON
earth. It's this line Of talk that makes
the hit with her.
But after they are married, does hs
consider It necessary to ply her with
the sacchartne conversation that ex-
perience has told him she has such an
appetite for? Far from It. The aver
age man considers that he has a per-
feet right to say things to his wife,
and to speak to her In a tone of voice
that he would not dream Of using toward
his stenographer or his cook-or any
female employe who could give notice
and quit.
You see he's 80 confident that II
doesn't make any difference with his
wife, because she win 60 on loving him
Just the same because she can't help It.
She's built that way.
For my part. I never hear a man
t. -
at her opinion, or make her the butt Of
his Joke that don't wonder IL he is try
ing to kill her love for him; or II he is
Just plain fool, who Is SO stupid that
he doesn't know that she's treasuring
up every unkind speech in her memory,
and the sum total Of them Is going to
be hatred Of him.
A Tender Little Plant.
Then. observe the idiocy of the man
who thinks that a woman's love will
survive neglect You see the cleverest
kind Of men commit this folly, too II
one Of these men should plant out a ten
der flower In his garden. he would ex-
pect It to wither and die II he didn't
cultivate II, but he talkes no such trouble
with that most fragile thing on earth
a woman's love. He thinks 1t is a kind
Of life everlasting plant that you can't
All Jul any iHOfo tuou yOu Cou Ine Sdu-
ada thistle.
You see plenty Of men who dump
their wives down in a home, and then
absorb themselves In their business, and
who take their pleasures on the outside.
while Mrs. Wife sits up solitary and
alone. keeping house and minding the
children.
Such men show their wives no tender
ness: they do nothing for their wives
happiness; and yet they have no doubt
that their wives are sitting up with their
pictures In their hands, adoring them.
and thinking lovely thoughts about them.
This Is an error. as the number OF
ladies' In Reno indicates; but every man
gets the jar Of his life when he finds
out that he has overdrawn his account
In the bank Of his wife's affections, and
that he is a bankrupt in love.
II don't mean to say that all men
treat their wives badly. Not at all; for
the majority Of men are good husbands.
But when a man Is gentle and kind and
considerate to his wife IT Is because he
is that kind Of a man. He doesn't treat
his wife that way because he wants to
preserve her affection for him, because
he doesn't believe he could lose that any
way.
And that's a queer piece Of ostrich
blindness that no woman can under
stand, for every woman knows that
love is the easiest thing in the world
to kill"