The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1915-05-20
ouizzlNc HER HUSBAND.

| Copyright, 1915, by the McClure News
paper Syndicate.3
| when hearts and lips have grown
cold,
And love is but for an hour:
When life's romance has been told.
And kisses have lost their power,
Then shall soft memory fleet,
No more a dream to %enchain;
Yet kisses are always sweet
And love Is never in VAIN
The man Who has a wife SO trustful
hat she believes implicitly in him..
never questioning the truth of his
cred into himself a jewel that is both
rare and precious. He should be most
careful Of his treatment of her.
The general run of wives are built on
an exactly opposite plan. They harbor
statements even when he is telling the
truth. Most wives are born lawyers"
leaning toward one branch only-crosa
examining. Once the suspicion that he
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 adroitly quizzinE
her husband whether her lurking sus-
'picions are g~roundless OF he can be
drawn into an admission of the trans
gressionS.
Many q husband has been drawn into
snares he little dreamed of by the wife
to whom the quizzing habit had become
a mania to find out his doings.
If he is half In hour late for dinner.
explaining that business detained him.
instead of letting 1t go at that he Ia
sure to undergo a severe Quizzing. later
on when he has we'll nigh forgotten the
matter. where he was on a certain We
ming; if he walked or rode straight
home; if he anyone he
knew. and what a 81 bill missing from
his pay envelope OF that particular
evening went for.
The average husband forgets his *,
cuses as he utters them. 1t Is, there
fore. difficult for him to think up the
same story twice.
Not one husband out of so deceives
his wife with deliberate evil Intentions.
He thinks it wisest and best some
times not to mention matters which
might raise a 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
liked her. Brotherly love pre-
vailing, he had called on his sister.
finding her i'll and, as she had written.
needy. The 50 bill had been given her.
No matter how earnestly admonished
to keep silent, the husband sooner or
later, under carefully prepared quiz
zing, 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
ly In hot water. His every word, act.
or glance, is apt to be misconstrued.
He spends the greater part of his life
attempting to explain matters to her
satisfaction.
He who mas 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 it, should
beware-take car He has a long.
rough, weary road to travel after he
weds her. 1t is a habit that is seldom
or never v~anquished by even the most
patient Of husbands. It is but a short.
step from quizzing to nagging. When
that sets in, happiness is in imminent
danger Of being ~overthrown. No man
loves a wife the better for it, indeed,
1T more often means loves total
eclipse. The woman who starts in to
quiz her good husband builds a wall
which may eventually part them.