The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-07

she'd go out in the kitchen and cook the
 most .b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l things for MT.
 Hubby. One evening l was dining with these people. Now, MT. Hubby, I'll have
 you know, was the worst rake in town.
 He was terrible. Of course, his wife knew
 nothing of his REAL life. but cooked on and on for him, utterly oblivious Of ev-
 erything except pots and pans and kettles
 That evening at dinner l remarked upon
 the excellent food Said she:
 My dear, if you want to keep your hus-
 bands love, learn to cook!
 "'rhe pitifu irony of it nearly destl oyed
 me-" said Miss Crosman. The man
 looked sheepish,; I looked away, and the
 poor little cook-wife smiled and never
 once knew. I've always resented the idea of a mans heart being found through his stomach. l believe men want more than
 mere food, and a nice comfortable Llace
 in which to rest. I believe they want
 companionship. l am a great advocate of
 the plan of the wife leaving the babies
 at home occasionally and going off for d little vacation with Hubby" Men are at heart very childish, after | all," I suggested.
 "They are just big, grown up iSiddies,
 and its the BIG CHILD often that needs as much attention as the small ones." American men," Miss Crosman con tinued, make the best husbands in the WUflu, Wllllc EHSilStlIlen4 IilhlNS llle pest fathers but the worst husbands. A mans wife should mean more to him than his children, and a woman's husband more
 to her than her children. You see plainly that 1 do not believe in a woman marry ing for anything in the world except LOVE- Anything else is merely selling herself"
 But often love doesn't last. Then what?" I asked.
 "I do not say that the first wild love will last forever" said Miss Crosman It isn't human nature to live at Concert
 Pitch all the time. Probably it's best that | it isn't. l know man who said to his wife;
 Its a good thing that I got over be- ing so crazy about you. If l hadn't, 1 never would have been able to do a stroke of work, and we would have starved to death"
 By getting over being so crazy as he expressed 1t, didn't mean that he stopped loving her, but that it had sim
 ply just settled down." she explained. '"One cant always hold the sweet, pas
 sionate love of youth" Miss Crosman
 said, growing serious, her bright, beauti- full blue eyes yelling tenderer, but when | that feeling is replaced after long years | by respect-genuine, honest respect-it is
 substitute not to be despised" Human beings are such curious things l observed, presently. You are right" said Miss Crosman.
 They ARE curious and each has his side. l just love the story about the little boy who stood up so manfully for the horse l than ran away when it saw an automobile for the first time. The little boys father
 was abusing the horse for being such a fool when the dear little boy turned and l said
 Now, Favver, you ought to think | about it the other way. That horse when
 he met that Nottermobile, just got skeered
 nearly to death. l bet if you wuz to
 meet a pair of pants comin' down the street without man in 'em, you'd be skeered most to death, too. You just oughter think about that side of it,
 Favver.'
 "So you see there really are two sides | to it,'' said Miss Crosman, thoughtfully. 1 "The Husband has HIS side when the
 wife is dingy and unkempt and untidy- just as well as the wife has hers, which
 makes her like to waddle over pans and | pots and kettles. To keep a man in good
 humor always look ones prettiest and wear ones best clothes" Miss Cros- | man began.
 | And when the remedy is as simple, | 1 suggested.
 As silly pink bows on our petticoats,' '' Miss Crosman interrupted, (which often
 patch up bad little quarrel in otherwise
 the happiest of homes, why we ought to | stop and consider. To respect a mans S
 ideals, to respect the things for which | he stands, Is the best tribute that a | wife can pay the man she marries, and | even the foolish little pink bows the wise | wife doesn't despise or underrate-for she cant afford to scorn anything that
 will keep her husbands love. She owes 1t | to him to keep it,''