Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1914-12-10


The wife went to live with married
sister The husband went his way, ana
the child was given over to the care of
the maternal grandmother, who remained
on very friendly terms with her son-th-
law. despite the separation between him
and his wife.
Both of the little girls parents visit
hor continually, and to both of them she
puts I'D a ceaseIess plant. where is my
lapa? Where is my mammal" as the
case may be, and why don't you live
here, like my Erandmamma and my
s;andpapa dof
but you have your mamma, dear"
Tho mother will soothe her by saying.
Yes: but want my papa, too" the
child viii wall, IT want you bof at the
same time, and I want my home"
The childs cries have gone to the faith
cr's heart. He realizes, perhaps too late,
that the first duty of parents 10 not to
themselves, Ibut to their children, and
that so child 10 getting a square deal In
Hfe that isn't reared In its own home.
and under the watchful and loving care
of both It's father and It's mother.
In the light OF this new knowledge,
and with the pathos OF his baby'B cries
for her own ringing In his ears, all Of the
petty squabbles and spats over nothing
seem very small to the man, and no Is
trying to get his wife to come back and
make A new start in a new homo that will
be built on a securer foundation than
the old one
Let us hope that the woman has gotten
her lesson, too, and that she will accept
the olive branch her husband IL holding
out to her. In the heat OF quarrel moth
ing ON earth looks so much like cool
oasis In the arid desert OF matrimony as
divorce does. Just to be rid of the nag
glng, of the fault finding, OF the per-
petual espionage, OF the grinding tyranny
of the never-ending fights, how aiiurine
the very thought. Just 70 be free 70
live ones own life unhampered, what
bliss in the prospect
But the divorced, and especially this
divorced woman. finds out that divorce is
not the earthly paradise she expected Il
TO be She finds out that she has the
perauisites OF neither the girl nor the
married woman. that people who sym
pathize with her don't want her to live
with them and that even the privilege OF
freedom carries with it the penalty OF
loneliness
Be sure that many a woman who ar
roeantly shakes the dust of her home of
her feet as she leaves It would be GLAD
enough to creep humbly in at its bach
door. II she could, after a few months o.
separation from her husband. The way
Is open to this one. May heaven send he
wisdom enough 10 go back, and retrieV'
the mistake of her youth, and make I
success instead OF a failure Of matri
mony.
After all. what a sordidly pitiful thinl
II is 10 think of home being wrecked
OF a little child being orphaned by tenn
per! What confession of weakness 1t
on the part of two grown-up huma
beings not TO be able 10 control thei
tongues! How little people must Low
their children when. for the sake OF say
ing a few biting and unpleasant thing
they are willing 10 jeopardiEe that child
whole life!
In plain English that's what the who
situation amounts to. Every man an
woman in the world who thinks at a
knows that It takes a mother and
father working together In harmony
bring up a child properly. Everyboo
knows that the most pltiful thing in Il
world 10 a little orphan child. and Il
next most pitiful thing is a half-orphs
child
Yet knowing this. simply for the sal
Of INDUCING their tempers. husbands an
wives win quarrel until they can eEdu
il no longer and then separate. thus d
liberately Orphaning their children.