Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1915-05-20
oulzzlNe HER HUSBAND.

Copyright. 1915, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
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 IA
And love is never in vain ' ~1=l
The man who has a wife so trustful
/! that she believes implicitly in him,
never questioning the truth of his
words or honesty of purpose, has gath
cred unto 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
a lurking doubt regarding hubby's
statements even when he is telling the
truth. Most wives are born lawyers"
| leaning toward one branch ~only-cross
| 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 quizzing
her husband whether her lurking sus-
| picions are groundless or he can be
drawn into an ADMISSION OF the trans
gressions.
Many a 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 an hour late for dinner,
| explaining that business detained him,
| instead of letting it go at that he is
sure to undergo Il severe quizzing. later
! on when he has we'll nigh forgotten the
| matter. where he was on a certain eve
ming; If he walked or rode straight
home; If he encountered ANYONE he
I.,ax, ,,l ,yl,at n 60 It'll n,;crior ro,
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 1t wisest and best some
times not to mention matters which
| might raise a domestic row. For in
stance mis- married sister might have
sent for him to come to her on that
that she was i'll and needed him. but
not to mention it to his wife, who had
! never liked her. Brotherly love pre-
vailing. he had called on his sister,
finding her i'll and. as she had written,
needy. The 81 bill had been given her.
No matter how earnestly admonished
TO keep silent, the husband sooner or
later, under carefully prepared quiz
ling, discloses the fact that his sister
Is Ill and he had been to see her and
where the missing bin went to. There's
no use in talking. the qulzzing wife
finds her good natured husband no
match for her cleverness in unearthing
anything ami 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 m~isconstrued.
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 it, should
beware-take care. He has a long,
rough, weary Dad to travel after he
weds her. 1t is a habit that is seldom
or never v~anqulshed by even the most
patient of husbands. 1t is but a short
Step from quizzing to nagging. When
hat 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.