The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-15

as l am of music, being something of a
musician myself, she wouldn't let me play
ragtime on the piano? Once 1 defied her
on this subject, and played My TIarem,'
and she went off into Mysteries and the
neighbors came in to see what the trouble
was"
Il had just about as much right and
privilege in that home as a burglar would
enjoy at police headquarters" he sighed
in conclusion.
An interesting feature of the affair IS
how the Solomon before whom the case
was tried would have adjusted it, had
not the wife found way out of the diem-
ma, she coming forward nobly with the
declaration that she wanted her husband
to come back even with the accompani-
ment of cigarettes" maps" and rag
time" and that she'd never register Il
complaint against any of these faults
again, so help her God!
She, moreover, told the court that she
would promise never again to be such
particular housekeeper, but be more par
tioular about keeping her husband COM
| Portable and happy
| That's the end of the story.
At last accounts the reunited family cas-
the cub reporters put iD was living in
peace and content.
The story is not without its vital points,
one of which is.
What right has a husband in his own
home anyway?
/ heard woman say once that she
thought Husbands ought to be swept out
like the trash in the morning and not re-
turn until evening, and that the only
thing they We're good for was to take you
out in the evening and pay the bills"
tsF1tn
such a doctrine was maintained?
| have
Haven't you frequented homes where
the father and husband was merely
| boarder? Got his breakfast and dinner
there. and read the evening paper, and
went to bed. but more than that he had
no more esay-so" in the scheme of things
than a gnatl
| True
Not many wives are so strict as the Chi
cago lady of the story, and deny their
husbands an evening smoke, but let him
assert his rights part of the family TO
some of the privileges that are presumed
| to belong to him, but such a condition
arises that he never tries il a second time.
| If her husband chances to meet an old
! friend for instance and invites him home
| to dinner without letting Mrs. WHEY
know. how many a wife will gracefully
accept the situation with the comment
/ that If her husband wants the friend to
dinner she wants him too" and then
busies herself with the "emergency' shelf
| in the pantry and at a moments notice
gets up a delicious dinner, as IL she'd
been expecting the guest all along?
Sometimes the wife smiles and smiles
and Is peaches and cream TO the uneN-
peeted guest but as soon as his last foot
! step is heard departing. she jumps en
poor old hubby and snatches him almost
bald headed and tells him II such thing
ever occurs again she'll leave him then
and therel
| Is it any wonder that under such circum-
| stances, many men are driven to taking
| their friends to the club or to the down
| town cafes. and spend enough for din
ner and drinks to buy their wives a gor-
geous new bonnet?
| 1t does look as If some sort of an un-
| derstandng might be arrived at whereby
a mutual benefit might be derived from
| a home-the one place on earth where
peace and harmony ought to dwell,
doesn't it2