The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1911-02-02
ADVICE TO JOHN.
From the Kansas city s.ar.


AS 4 result of your slight indispo-
ftion last week. John. you should be
more enthusiastic in your admiration
ierstald her better.
Like all of us Of the stronger sex, you
imagined you were about to die as soon
as you really got sick. Ordinarily your
sympathy for people with ailments has
been very mild. Because you have oc-
casionally stood a slight. transitory
pain In your headquarters or grocery
department without calling three or
four eminent physicians to consult
touching your case, you had got into
the habit Of tossing yourself mental,
and sometimes vocal. bouquets on your
Spartan endurance and fortitude.
"If had only given up every time I
with an air Of conscious strength, II
would have been confirmed invalid.
Or maybe resting quietly under half a
ton of stone long ago."
But when the whole Headache fami-
y, including Papa and Mama Head
ache and all the little Headaches,
moved into yoar upper story to occupy
all the vacant rooms there, and General
rorpidity and his staff took a lease on
tune like darby band when Ii gets
near the place the funeral Is to start
rom. When you weren't complaining
n a voice as hollow as the echo Of a
1alf-note in flute factory you were
,rooding in silence as clammy as q
prayer meeting in an oyster bed. You
began to cheerlessly speculate as to
what your widow would do with the
insurance, and failed to find much
comfort in wondering what you would
De doing then. And you even took to
Wishing you had led a better life. An
hour of your company would havo CIV
IN Biliiken crouch.
Mrs. John was 40 times as sy1nra-
.hetic and tender and thoughtful am
Energetic as you could have been I'M
Ter reversed conditions. She proved
you that Sir w. Scott knew just
what he was talking about when he
said that woman in her hours OF ease
| might have her quirlSs and love to
tease but shows up good points by tho
| peck whenever we get 1T in the neck.
She never got tired Of waiting on you
| and running errands for you and fix
! ing your pillows more comfortably. She
| Mas always ready to read to you, and
| iidn't skip line of the market news
| Or sport dope. She was in her ele-
nent. One of the surest ways to make
your wife happy, John. is to OCCASION
lily get helpless ana dependent on
Ter and let her mother you and worry
tbout you and work hard for you.
The odd part to you was the utter
dependence you had to place on her.
You were thoroughly imhued with the
dea that you just must take care of
Yourself and do nothing. You counted
IN her to jump right up when the
tlarm clock went off Though you never
lo) and fight the furnace and get you
'omething tempting for breakfast and
wash your face and remember about
our medicine Though the clock was
quare!y before you) and telephone the
Iff1ce and attend to your more pressing
BUSINESS affairs and give the doctor
our correct symptoms and remember
I'll his instructions to you and do ev-
'rything thinkable for your comfort
md pleasure. By the second day of
'our illness you felt lonely and de-
'pondent every ';me she was out OF
our sight 80 minutes; the third day
When you felt very badly, you asked
Ter four times III she could really love
IN ugly, unshaven old skate like you
ust to hear her say she certainly
tould;; and by the fourth day, when
fou felt worse, If, she had had 20 take
trip down town and had forgotten ia
:iss you goodby. you would almost
ave felt like having good cry.
The dear women, John, feel almost
nat dependent on us all the time, I'M
II they lose faith in us. And IL is q
'lessed thing for us they do For when
yer they get independent Of us they
ither get along very well without us
r make monkeys of us, or both