El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-24
By Dorothy Dix

the difference between happiness and
misery for a woman and make mar
rage a failure or a success for her
The women who are envied by other
women are not the ones who ride in
automobiles and have boxes at the
opera and glitter with diamonds. This
women who make every woman Who
knows them pea green with Jealousy
are the wives whose husbands remain
lovers after marriage, and who re-
ceive from their husbands the delicate
little attentions of cOurtship-
Few women are fortunate enough not
to lose their sweethearIs when they
set a husband The average man loves
his wife, but he would rather die than
let her know it Probably he feels
that he expresses himself in sufficient
" Ineligible terms Of affection when
he pays her bills but this doesn't sat,
isfy a woman she wants to be con
tinuany toIo, with good round oaths.
that he still adores her. and considers
her as beautiful and charming. and As
slender when she is fat and forty. as
he thought her when she was slim
and sweet ard twenty
Knowing this Unsuitable hunger OF
women for love. and how happy a few
compliments make them. it is strange
that any man could be so hard hearted
as not to take the trouble to feed his
wife daily on a choice assortment of
the bon bOns of affection. He doesn't
do it. however. and even when wife
goes fishing for compliments. she
makes a water haul.
Of course men ought to make love -
their wives even more ardently after
marriage than before. but inaSmuch as
they don't do il women should try u
view the situation with more philOso-
ply than they do.
They should try to realize that be-
cause proSa1c. hard worked business
man doesn't quote poetry to his wife OF
an evening. or hold her hand is no
sign that he isn't filled with surging
emotions of affection for her.
PASSIONATE devotion NAV express itself
in violets, and the man who tolls early
and late to keep his wife comfortable
and sheltered from the hardships OF
life is giving a working model of true
love that makes the rantings of
Romeo look like 80 cents.
Women who are married 10 these
dumb, devoted. domestic slaves Of men
may well recall that talk in cheap. and
that 1t is actions that really prove
things. and as long as their husbands
for their families these wives need
not worry about the state of their
husbands affection.
Another thing that these Heartburn
cry wives should remember is that.
men and women look at the subject of
view. A woman is in her element IN
it A man feels like a fool when ne
is doing 1t. It is for that reason that
men hate long engagements. They are
IN hurry to get married and be able
to cut out the mushy talk. They never
realize that a woman marries in the
fond belief that the man is going :. D
along in the same strain
and keep asking her, 'oose ducky 5
oo?' to the day of her death
Doubtless all OF tins is cold comfort
to the women who pine for some audi
bic expression OF their husbands af-
lection The best advice that one can
give them is to use a little common
sense in the matter to believe that as
long as man works for a woman he
IS giving the best possible proof of his
devotion to her. and that husband
who loves his wife feels no more need
to go about prOclaiming the fact than
an honest man does to cry out in the
streets his virtue.