The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-05-20
ouIzzlNc HER HUSBAND.

S-onvr,ebt 1915. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
when hearts and lips have grown
cold.
when life's omance has been told,
And kisses have lost their power,
Then shall soft memory fleet,
No more a dream to enchatn;
Vet kisses are always sweet Ia
And love IL never In vain" iarSN
The man who has a wife so trustful
,hat she believes implicitly In him.
never questioning the truth OF his
words or honesty Of purpose, a gatn-
cred unto himself a jewel that Is both
rare and precious. lie should be most
careful of his treatment OF her:
The general run OF wives are QUILT on
an exactly opposite plan. They naroor
a lurking doubt regarding hubbys
statements even when he Is telling the
truth. Most wives are born lawyers,
IeaninR toward one branch only-cross
examining. Once the suspicion that ne
is tickle dawns across her mind, the
average married woman, instead OF CIV
ing herself up to weeping In secret, sets
about to ascertain, by adroltly quizzing
her husband whether her lurking sus-
picions are groundless or he can be
drawn into an admission or the trans
gressions.
Many a husband has been drawn into
snares he little dreamed of by the wife
to whom the quizzing habit nae econ
a mania TO find out his doings.
II he is half an hour late for dinner,
explaining thai business detained him.
instead Of letting 1t go at that he Ia
sure to undergo'a severe quizzing, later
on when he has well nigh forgotten the
matter, where he was on a certain eve
ming: IL he walked or rode straight
- 40 ha ap~n0nnfoPad anVOna hA
knew. and what a 81 bill missing from
his pay envelope on that particular
evening went for.
THE average husband forgets his ex-
cuses as he utters them. 1t Is. there
fore, difficult for him to think up the
same story twice.
his wife with deliberate evil intentions.
He thinks II wisest and best some
times not to mention matters which
might raise q domestic row. For in
stance his married sister might have.
sent for him to come to her on that
particular evening. stating In her note
that she was i'll and needed him, but
not to mention 1t to his wife, who had
never liked her. Brotherly love pre-
vailing. he had called OF his sister,
finding her i'll and, as h had written.
needy. The 81 bill had been given her:
No matter how earnestly admonished
TO Keep SlleUIs InC huoOoAAo 1OOAhSA W
later, under carefully prepared quiz
ring, discloses the fact that his sister,
is i'll and he had been to see her and
where the missing bill went to. There's
no use in talking. the quizzing wife
finds her good natured husband no
match for her cleverness In unearthing
anything and everything he had made
UP his mind to conceal from her that
she might not be worried.
She keeps her better half constant
" In hot water. His every word. act,
or glance, is apt to be mlsconstrued.
He spends the greater part Of his life
attempting to explain matters to her
satisfaction. .....
He who has a quizzing sweetheart
who wants to know where he was on
the evenings he was not by her. side,
whom he saw, and all about II, should
beware-take care. He has a long.
rough, weary road to travel after he
WEEDS her. It is a habit that is seldom
or never v~anquished by even h most
patient Of husbands. 1t Is but a short
Step from quizzing to nagging. When
that sets in, happiness Is in imminent
danger of being ~overthrown- No man
loves q wife the better for 1t, indeed,
It more often means loves total
eclipse. The who starts In to
quiz her good husband builds a wall
which may eventually part them.