The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-10-18
ON SOuL-MATES.

ON SoUL-MATES.
You are sweet and good to me.
and have given me a happy life and a
happy home, but love him more than
with which a wife left her husband the
other day to go to a soulmate three
years younger than herself
One wonders what her solemate
will give her that her husband has
not already bestowed upon her. "A
happy life and a happy home are
surely wonderful assets in the matri-
monial partnership.
And the husbands plaintive admis-
sion, Il loved her as much as I did
when l married her, and l always be-
shows no waning of his affections as
her excuse.
Perhaps lack of congeniality was at
the root of it all. He liked TO ride
and shoot and fish. Her joy was in
parties, fashionable functions.
And having met man who liked
parties, dances and fashionable func-
tons, she based her belief in his con-
geniality on these characteristics.
But the days of dancing are soon
over. and what then? Will the lover
provide a happy home and a happy
life?" Life for these two will be
Swallowed at the beginning by a broken
promise. What is to be the compen-
sation?
The trouble with the soulmate the
DRY is that it is progressive.
The affinity of today may not be
the affinity of tomorrow. Who will be
the first to choose a new mate? And
If it is the man in the case, what OF
the woman who left husband and
home for his sake? Yet surely his love
has right to progress toward an
other, and in doing it he will simply
be exercising the same right of choice
that influenced her when she came
to him.
Perhaps she longed for the express
sion Of love. Her husband, busy with
his shooting and fishing, was content
to love her, and withhold from her
thoughtlessly, the assurances of his
devotion. So when her affinity played
upon the keys of her nature the cease
less and FASHIONABLE harmony of q
love you," she yielded-forgetting those
more exquisite harmonies which have
to do with the home and fireside and
fidelity.
Perhaps If they had been busy peo-
pie this would not have happened. The
Russian peasants have a proverb
Labor is the home that love lives in, >
by which they mean that two people
are drawn into affectionate relations
by the sharing of mutual tasks.
The woman who shares her nus
bands cares and worries creeps into
his heart, and is held to him by her
sympathy and understanding. The life
of unbroken serenity pals on impet-
uous and passionate natures. They
welcome and change, even that OF
tempestuous revolt against existing
ing conditions They face a storm OF
scandal because they are tired Of the
monotony Of continual sunshine.
But when they are beaten and
bruised by the storm they are glad
to crawl back into the sunshine. From
the darkness of tempest tossed lives
they look back longing to the calm
sweet days of domestic joy.
Stripped of its romance the soul
mate theory is usually based on hys-
terra. The man or woman who seeks
an affinity reaches out for new emo
tional experiences. They are tired Of
matrimonial humdrum. The chase and
the capture The fascination of for
hidden fruits :" These are the prima,
motives which eventually bring disas-
| ter.
In nine cases out Of ten the wife Is
| happiest who sticks to her husband
He may have faults. He may seen
unresponsive, lacking in the qualitie:
with which she had Economically en-
| dowed him.
| But what assurance has she that the
second man will wear any better?
And likewise the man is the hap
| piest who sticks to his wife