White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-15
WHY WOMEN LOSE
THEIR HUSBANDS

Women lose their husbands love.
in most cases. because they do not
make sufficient effort to keep Ii; and
this is strange because most women
wish to keep it. A good many of them
seem to consider that a wedding ring
entities them for the rest of their
lives to a mans love, fidelity and ad-
miration, without any further effort
on their part. According to the
church ii PROBABLY does so endow
them. but according to human nature
it certainly does not, and human ma
ture wins nearly every time. OF
course. there are men who eve
could be anything but brutes, and
women who lose in the battle of life
(which to a ONE is chiefly the bat
tie of love- through no fault of their
own; but these cases are comparative
ly rare and do not affect the matter in
hand. | write of the ordinary man
and the ordinary woman, of the ordi-
nary middle cless life in any ordinary
American town.
A few weeks Tor months. or years,
as the cas- may be. depending on her
temperament and circumstances),
after her marriage, a woman settles
down into a kind of rut. Her appear
ance is not quite what it used to be.
though by every law of Nature 1t
should be improved. She is careless
in dress, careless of her whole bodily
appearance. Yet if she had any sense
at all she must know that her physical
charms at least helped make her at
tractive to her husband before mar
riage. Then her interest in mental
things-things beyond the walls of
her home-wanes. and gradually her
whole intellect becomes narrowed.
She has few men friends and her NO.
man friends interests are wholly in
the feeding of infants and the making
of cakes, and in other less useful gos-
sip. Her husband knows her too we'll
and she thinks she knows him too
well. Perhaps if she is not of the
lazy type she has become a house.
work fiend; and if she has children a
children's ailment fiend. And the
mind and body show all this. and no
one who can think at all can blame a
man for looking for companionshir
and sympathy and attraction else.
where. The most faithful of wives
the most devoted of mothers, the mos
awe-striking domestic of wives /
] often, at heart. a very selfish morta
!, indeed
Woman, as a rule, want love, ad
miration and happiness. and follow
ing here are the only means that will
give ia them. They may say: "Oh, if ii
takes SO much trouble, We don't wan
to keep our husbands, it's degrading
to have to scheme like that" VERY
NSAf thCh+ II ~ a fCIt biuuDlc uldLlCl
to let him go if you are satisfied
Only, are you? II so. why did you
marry? Then also, If she entered
into any other business or profession
a oma would expect to make Ions
and continuous efforts, in many differ.
ent directions, to succeed. and so it is
with marriage. | append a few sug-
gestions for success.
Keep yourself in health. and
your beauty at its best. A little exer.
else and sensible living will do both
Do not worry your husband with your
or your children's little ailments. II
you, or they are really i'll, your hus-
band will share the burden with you,
Second-Keep your house attrac.
tive, and your household we'll fed, but
remember that men are not generally
interested in the modes of baking
pies. If you can afford it, employ some
one to do the laundry and the rough
work, for needless economies are an
moving to your husband. and youth
taking to yourself.
Third - Dress without extrava.
gance. but we'll, not following every
fashion like a senseless doll, but with
due regard to your personality. and
to yuor husbands pocket.
Fourth-Take. as far as possible,
an interest in you husbands business
and expect him to be interested-he
will be-in the big things of your own
life. Read much, meet people who
are worth while. and know what is
going on in every country. Try to
realize that there are countries be-
sides America and other nationalities
than American. and other cities be-
sides your own little town. Strive to