El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-02-27
The Poor, Whining Women
Though They See Husbands Shaving
for Them, They RePrOach Them Be
cause They Do Not Give More
Dorothy Dix

/ ~ he man whose attentions are
without intentions, and who wins
4 wOmans heart Just to amuse
himself with it for an hour, is entitled
to the medal for the meanest man; II
the meanest girl is the grating girl
l who makes a young man spend more
upon her than he can Afford even
though he has to defraqd others 70 get
the money; what type OF VIE Is the
I think it is the whining and COM
planning wife
fond of the admiration Of other men
must give her husband many a bad
quarter Of an hour; the vile VINO IS
Wasteful and eXtraVaganI must De an
aggravatfon 10 the mans soul as well
as to his pOcketbOOk; the high TEN
pered wife must make a husband re-
gret that he belongs to that grade OF
society where il is not etiquette 10 use
a club on the partner OF your Dosom5
the wife who nags must reconcile rns
man who has got her to the brevity OF
life and make him long Tor the peace
and quiet Of the grave
All OF These. Though. Have some Re
deeming Virtue
But all Of these faulty wives have
some redeeming virtue The Idsc1na-
tor is as fascinating to her husband as
she IS to other men, The WaSter and
the spendthrift is sure to be easy-going5
and Misunderstanding, and generous ma
tured The high tempered woman is
almost invariably a real heipmate. full
of energy. who works herself to death
for her husband ana children, whilst
oftener than not the very source OF
Wife's nagging is her OVer-devOtiOn to
her husband and her ceaseless anxiety
for him
Therefore, a man may be occasionally
green-eyed with Jealousy, or harrassed
with bills. or tremble at the thought Of
the curtain lecture and the questions
he is due TO face at home and yet find
In a ri
Not so he who has had the misfor-
tune to espOuse the daughter OF the
horse leech. who is forever crying:
More! More! MOre. She IS heart
less, pitiIess, constituencies. with veins
that run ice water instead OF blood,
and the only emOntiOn ne ever eXpe-
riences is that Of Unsuitable greed
Husband Only a Cash Register.
To her a husband is nothing but
money making machine, valuable only
in proportion to the dollars he can turn
out. If he dies she is recOnciled by the
insurance money, or the prospect that
opens up to her OF marrying some 9TH
er man who is an even better cash reg
lister.
This predatory wife is as relentless
" cruel as any Apache, for she tor
lures her husband 10 death by slow de-
grees- She starTes his heart for af-'
1ection ana appreciation she breatSS
his spirit by her reprOaches- She saps
his courage by making him feel that
he is a failure. She robs him OF all the
isfied with the results
The husband is doing his part. He
is tOiling like a dray horse from early
morning until dewy eve; he is denying
himself every little luxury and treat
that he would like to have for the sake
Of his wife, and that she may have
pleasures he does not dream OF indulg-
ing in He gives her the best OF every
thing he has and more than he can
really afford
But when he comes home Of an even
ing weary and spent with his hard
days work, he finds a cross, disgrHn-
tied. dissatisfied wife, whose Welcome IS
a flood OF reprOaches because she can't
have what richer women have
She lbeWails her clothes She laments
because she can't go to grand opera
instead Of the popular priced matineea
She beats upon her breast because she
can only have q two weeks outing in
the summer instead OF going for the
season She continually calls her chill
dren's attention to the fact OF what
poor, miserable creatures they are be-
cause their father can't give them eT-
cry indulgence that millionaire children
have
Because He is Not SUGGESTED.
Worse still she openly reprOaches
her husband because he isn't as sue
cesSful, and doesn't make as much mon
ey as some other man she knows. ana
she lets him see that she considers him
a rank failure. and herself to- be a mar
tyr because she is his wife
Could any fate on earth be more blt-
ter than that OF the man who IS liter
ally working himself into the grave for
his family. and who gets. in return for
all this heroic effort and sacrifice,
nothing but ingrautude and lack u ap-
probation from his wife, and is made to
feel that he has dragged her down in
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