Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-02-22
TWO SORTS OF WIVES
SOME ARE HELPMEETs AND SOME
STUMBLING BLOCKS.
Lives of Successful Men Remind Us
Of Credit Due to Wife-Little Said
of the Wife Who Is a
Hindrance.

In these piping times of prosperity
we see many articles published tell
ing how the writer achieved success
in this oregon country, and principal
ly on small pieces of land. Such
stories are highly inspiring, particu-
larly to the young men and young
women who are just starting out for
themselves.
If one will take the trouble to tab
ulate and analyze these stories it will
be discovered that in nine cases out
of ter a good woman was the actual
cornerstone upon which the success
was founded and worked out. The
same has been true since the world
began, we suppose. 1t certainly has
been the rule that the good helpmeet
has done more for man than any 9th
or one cause-tFian any other score Of
causes-sluce our forefathers landed
on the bleak New England shore.
There are, perhaps, fewer exceptions
to the rule now than ever, particular
ly among those who have risen from
poverty to affiuence on the land.
We must give the wives of nearly
all successful men great credit. In
pany cases they. have suffered more
hardship than their husbands, p. IA
theirs, or brothers have labored hard
err, have worked for longer hours. No
credit is too great for them.
But how. often is the other side Of
the story alluded to? Where can,
we find the stories Of the wives who
were not helpmeets, but rather him
ORANGES and stumbling blocks to their
husbands? How about the wives who
almost from the day OF marriage
| were begging for finefies, Inquiries
and unnecessary articles beyond their
means? Do We read Of them?
This is not pleasant subject to
touch upon; but many of US can point
to cases where the extravaganza Of
the wife has kept the husband in pow
| erty, is still keeping him in poverty,
or at least keeping his nose to the
wheel, grinding, grinding his life
| out inch by inch, Would 1t not be
well to take up this phase Of life and
now and then speak of the failures 2
Why not call attention to the woman
who has begged the money from her
young husband for the purchase of
a new dress which she does not need,
or a new hat, which all know to be
above her means, when the same
money put into COW or two would
mean success.
In telling about the CHEEKY and
encouraging words of the true help
meet why not give little thought to
the poor husband who has had the
very soul and spirit nagged out Of
him by woman who did not know
what she wanted, but was bound t
have, If nagging could get them, man!
OF the fineries of her richer neighborl
had?
Few such stories are published TO
the reason that the husbands are fail
ures or so considered, and no mai
likes to exploit himself as failure
But would it not be well for some o
the unfortunate ones to tell their stor
les for the benefit of the young wive
who, with their. husbands, are jus
starting out on the road of married
life? All praise TO the good won
en-, the good wives, the selfsacrificinl
ar noble mothers; but let us nov
and then have word for the unfor
5 tunate husbands Of the other sort O
women. -Portland Oregonian.