The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-04-16
CHOOSE THE RIGHT WOMAN
-IREAT HER RlGhT.

An oklahoma City preacher WaAed
eloquent on last Sunday IN Yelling
is congregation that Their we're
Many Snares in Choosing WIFE
Among other things the reverend
gentleman delivered himself OF the
following, while in the midst of a
brain-storm of evident cyclonic pro
portions: THE Bible says that God
took a rib from Adams side and
made woman and afterwards gave
her to him for wife. But nowhere
is it mentioned just what rib was
taken, and when the average man
chooses wife it is about twenty
three chances to one that he selects
the wrong rib"
In another portion of his orator
ical fight the gentleman of the cloth
says: Every man should kneel down
and ask Divine guidance befort
choosing wife And, again: Don't
let your eye take the place of your
judgment"
We are not IA preacher, but being
only poor, wicked layman, we wol'd
hate to think that the percentage in
the game of life was so heavy against
the player as the reverend gentle
man has stated it to be. When his
remarks are digested one must na,u-
rally draw the conclusion that goo
man could only find one woman out
of a possible twenty-four, with whom
he could live in harmonious relation
ship while the devil himself would
have tie devil of a time in living
with the other twenty-three.
Furthermore, the preachers advice
to all men to "kneel down and ask
Divine guidance before choosing a
wife sounds well upon the face of
It but unless the man who has sought
divine guidance bdfore the marri-
age VOWS are taken uses ordinary
horse sense and common humanity in
his treatment of that wife after he
once has made the choice all the
Divine guidance" which might he
worked overtime from this day to the
time when Gabriel will sound the re-
veille will not amount to a whole
lot in the matter of creating, estab-
fishing and maintaining happy
home.
The remark made by the gentle
man in another portion of his sermon
that the lives of many great men
had been ruined by shrewish wives
may be true enough but is is also
true that half the shrews are created !
and made to order out of gentle and
loving women by the cold and cai-
lous neglect Of the lords of creation |
after they have once gained possess
ion OF them,
no woman has ever been created
perfect AMI no man ever created
has been perfection. Not by big
majority, at least,
The man and woman who meet one
another and associates with each
other and ultimately marry, accord
ing to the laws of God and of the
land. will live happily for all the days
of their natural lives, in ninety and
nine cases out of a possible hundred,
If they will loaven their love and as
sociations with a little bit of common
horse sense each day of their exist
ence Let the woman know that bus
mess worries and cares will bring
the husband home at night tired and
cross and then let her govern herself
accordingly And let the man know
that the woman who has given into
his keeping her heart. her life, her
body; who has borne his children into
the world and endangered her life
and wrecked her health that by so
doing his name might be perpetuated
among men, has daily cares and wor-
ries and vexations equal to his own,
while nature has not given her the
same strong will and the same /
strong physique with which to COM
bat these worries, with which il has
provided him. And then let all the