El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-06-11
Man Tired of His Wife
Absence Makes the Heart Grow
Ponder" Says an Old PrOverb,
and This Is Especially Apt
in This Situation.
BY Dorothy Df1

( ~ tress. He says that he has
- = been married about IS years,
and that suddenly a great WEAKNESS Of
spirit has come upon him bis wife Is
good and kind, an excellent housekeep-
er. a thrifty manager and her one Cd
him happy, but while ne recognizes heE
virtues and admires them, they leave
him cold and unmOved
In a word, he's tired OF his wife she
! bOres him to death. Just her presence
is irksOme TO him, and when she goes
with him on any sort OF pleasure
jaunt it takes all the fun out OF the
This man is no gay Lothario. He is
a good. honest, domestic man. VINO Is
honestly alarmed at the state OF al
can do to recover the interest ne once
] had in his wife, and the thrills that
went through his veins like lire at the
touch Of her hand
There is only one remedy for such
cases, and that IS absence Inc most
! beautiful people in the world grow
too often The Wittiest conversation
alists grow tedious If we have a sur
felt Of their society The virtues OF
even an angel pail upon US If they are
constantly before US
Reasons Why.
Why people who cannot eat 80 Quails
in 80 days; who never want TO see, the
same play twice, or read book a
second time. who tire Of their clothes
before they are nalI worn out, ana
spend their lives hustling for new
sights. new emotions, new diversions,
new places to go. should ever be fool
ish enough TO imagine that they could
endure the undiluted. society Of one
person, year IN and year out passes
comprehension
There are millions Of husbands and
wives who have had an overdose or
each others society and are suffering
from il, and they are so stupid they
/ don't realize what alls them, nor now
Z simple the remedy for it is. Yet the
symptoms are unmistakable.
When a man begins to dread the
I thought of going home of an evening,
and TO wonder what made him idiot
enough to get married and to pick out
Sally, of all women in the world, for
a wife, when he begins to notice that
Sally has gone off IN looks and IS
getting a triple chin, and 10 have
! feather bed figure: when his eyes To-
Gus on the little mole on Sally's cheek
( instead Of the cute way her hair curls
I he commences wondering II all women
talk as much drivel and use as many
words in telling nothing as Sally Jones
then it's time for the man to pack his
grip and hike away from home and
I Sally.
He hasn't really fallen out Of love
with her, as he thinks he has He's
just tired of her for the time being.
And it's exactly the same way with
women OF course the theory IS that
women have such an abnormal talent
enough of her husbands society, but is
a female oliver Twist always asking
en- are tickle creatures, and the best
wife in the world can get so sick and
weary of a model husband, that she is
ready to die Of sheer ennui.
The WOman's Side.
Every now and then a woman gets
so that she can see nothing but faults
in her husband. Everything ne does
and everything he doesn't do irritates
what on earth the fool killer was do
ing on the day that she tied UP with
the miserable little shrimp that she
did, instead of marrying some roman
tic and gOdliEe creature that she
didn't marry. All that she needs TO
effect a complete cure is a month or
Of course, most of us never admit TO
our husbands and wives that we are
bored We yawn behind our hands and
try TO look Interested but in our
secret souls all of US know the surging
joy with which we saw our dearly be-
loved husband or wife start off on a
journey, or the rapture that filled our
own soul when We got off somewhere
alone. or with perfect strangers.
And We also know the delight with
which We returned home, or welcomed
back the wandereF. our whole point of
vision changed by little absence, and
the one Of whom we had been so tired
clothed again in his OF her halo.
This is why the summer vacation IS
such a beneficent Institution. Absence
makes the heart grow fonder," says the
old prOverb, and this is especially true
of husbands and wives. They need to
break away every few months Just TO
get a perspective on each others good
qualities and to find out how. neees-
sary each is to the others happiness.
You can OVeFdO matrimOny as easily
Is you can any other good thing, and
If there were some way by which We
could be married three days a week
instead Of seven there would be no
more divorce