Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-02-24


you would be ready to swear that you
had never eaten anything but stringy
meat and watery potatoes and burnt
bread in your life.
Yet both cooks had exactly the same
raw material to work upon. One turns
out a thing of art and delight. The other
makes mess of things. It's all in the
way you do it.
There are two families whose situation
in life is almost exactly the sarle. Both
families are well-to.do in a moderate
way. They have all of the comforts and
many of the Injuries of life. but in each
family the man must work hard, and the
woman look thriftily after the house
hold; in beth families many sacrifices
must be made.
In one household the whole atmosphere
Is ore Of peace, and love, and happiness.
The wife goes about her household tasks
with song on her lips because she feels
that making a comfortable home for her
husband and her children Is the biggest
and the best work that any woman can
do. and their appreciation and affection
are her highest reward.
She doesn't have as many pretty clothes
as many of her friends do, nor can she
\but she knows that her husband gives
her the very best that he can, and that
he would like to. dress her like the queen
Of Sheba. SO she makes over her old hat
without a particle of envy OF what other
women have. because she realizes that
when II comes to happiness a mans love
and tenderness are better than millinery.
The man at the head of the family does
grilling work; he has many cares and re-
sponsibilities. but when he comes home
to his family he doesn't take the nerves
and the temper he has suppressed ali
day for fear of driving away customers
out on his family. He's gentle and affec-
uonate with his wife and children. He's
interested in everything his wife wants
TO do, and ready to listen TO everything
his children have to tell.
He economies on a hundred little per-
sonal luxuries so that the whole family
may have some little spree together. OF
course. the children have to be denied
many things they see rich children have,
out they know that daddy" would give
them anything on earth he could afford.
and so there's no whining or complain
ing when they can't have the things they
want.
In this household you never hear a
word that is not kind and loving. All is
peace and harmony and great happiness
1t is a successful home
In the other household there Is per-
petual wrangllng and quarrels about
everything and about nothing. The air
Is electric with storm. The wife frets
and Complains about how hard she has
to work and the monotony of domestic
life. She continually repines becaus,
she can't dress as smartly as the ricf
women with whom she associates, anC
because she can't GO to Palm Beach II
the winter and Europe in the summer.
The husband comes home tired an,
nervous with never pleasant word 70,
member OF his family. He flies int,
violent RACES or sits in suIlky silence
His children are as afraid of him as the,
would be OF wild beast, and when h,
denies them anything they ask for they
too. sulk about It. because they conside
him tryant whose chief delight is II
eireumventing them and depriving then
OF pleasure.
Purgatory itself cannot be a moU, an
pleasant spot in which to dwell than IN
home, where husband and wife and chill
dren are all at daggers points with eac
other.
NOW lneSe Two couples have eXacU
the same material out OF which to max
life a success or a failure. One coupl
has achieved happiness. the other MISERY
One man and his wife have had enoug
intelligence to realize that matrimony
what we make it. They accept its dutie
eheerfully, they bear its hardship
bravely. they give their best and sweet
est to 1t. and in so doing they find happ
ness
The other couple have spent their tim
IN looking for faults In each other and /
exagserating every defect. They hay
heen selfish and inconslderate and impC
lite TO each other. as they would be to n
stranger. They have brought out n
worst that is in each other, and turne
their home into battle ground
And what is true of these people is trr
Of us all. Life gives US all the same 1,
gradients TO work upon-toil and lelsur
sickness and health. laughter and tear
success and failure. birth and death, an
whether we win or lose out. whether v
make a success or failure. is up to MS.
For life IL what we make II.