The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-28
A JUDGE AND HIS WISDOM
By ADA PATTERSON

Take your wife out to an entertain ment now and then"
 A Brooklyn judge rustled the black fsill1 of his robe and looked severely down at the man who stood before him awaiting. judgment.
 A couple were straining at their bonds as dogs at leash. They wanted to get away from each other They W ers. tired of each other. They had goat=n on each others nerves. They we're making 2 mutual demand for freedom The judge, looking down upon them. be ; lieved that this condition was d tenn porary one. He thought he had before him another case of a couple who afc home bound.
 Being wise judge lie knew that fome, like all other good things mi ghi be overrated. And he gave the a1vice.
 Take your wife to an entertaiiRaent now and them
 called one day at the home of | man who never took his wife out 70 cntertainments' nor to anything else. She had that morning committed sui eide and as he stood there he was won tferlns whether he might have made d hista1Se. The ueishDors sad of her, tn men looking grave the women vipinS their eyes on their aprons; "Sh Wis good woman. She Was hard working And she never stopped outside the house.
 went back to the snewspaper I served and wrote a story of the woul- an to whom the passing of, the hands ol the CLOCK by day meant always sonic c rev duty. Never rest Never any re laxing. Yes. she had the compensa tion. She had a good husband. At ieart he hever got drunk but seldom and he had never beaten her. They had a good. " brood of children. But he did not KNOW that a woman's delicate narvous organism if stretched too far, like .. rubber band will break He dfd nor know that work unrelieved by play is crudeery. Nor did he know that mon otohy IS foe to insanity as < is to healtn Which Is proven by tn fact mat there are more farmers wives than any other class of wone1 ,a in stltrtions for the insane. That women Who work in factories do not lead tte llst IS eNplainable upon but one ground Tired as theyeare they drag their aci ing bodies out to an oceasiona! enter tllnment They open the suice gates oi their thoughts and let them fTo .9. Into another channel than. their n orIx. The farmers wife has the advartage of fresh air and she should have tlrat of iiresli food though Elm told the .arnf- VI ' t,ANdieSt ittulI IS ms lfHblt .Df spntI- ihssthe fresh things to o-marlSet.a1id pr,, viding his family with those vhiel, ara stale and salt. But the. life of the iarlners. wife is an isolated one. While her lungs have the. benefit of fresh air her mind has pot the stumulus of con lact with other minds There's pothinas Tor polishing our wits like sandpaper- Ing them with another's
 The woman who has a Ia rpe faoil,,- q nd. q. rest and recreation, need not be depressed py this. Nor need the farmers wife fancy the gate of an asylum is swineiua open to receive her. But they would do well to recall the words of the Brook iyn Judge. and remind tbet lords Of those words. ,-~>~~~-~---~---~~~~ its Toyland cover. it's coolred pictures and It's good easy print q OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED (REvlEws
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