Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-09-04

put the brakes on
human cndeavcr, or brings about 30
many avoidabie calamities as the sub
servience or the strong TO the weak, the
subordination OF the wise to the foolish.
It IL a great misfortune TO humanity,
but Il Is one of the noblest mistakes that
mankind has ever made, and there are
many excuses to be offered for IL.
Indeed the very qualities that make
man or woman strong-the wide COM
prehension. the ability to endure, the d.
vine patience and pity make them the
inevitable victims of the little souled and
the weak. Just as an honest man is no
match for a thief in a trade because he
will not descend to offsetting trick by
trick. so the strong and noble cannot con-
tend with the weak and puHllanimous,
because they scorn to use the only
weapon that would avail.
You may see this illustrated in a
dozen households OF your acquaintance
where there is an inequality between hus-
band and wife. Invariably the weak one
rules. II the man is wise, generous,
broad, tolerant and the woman Is silly,
narrow. high-tempered and querulous. it
is not he, but she who is the autocrat.
Such a woman never gives up her own
will. because there are no such cyclists
as fools. She never suffers herself to
be led up to a higher life. because she
is too dull to have any aspirations. But
the man, Just because he IL broad ana
wise, and because he sees, as she does
not. that in order to have any peace In
family life. somebody must give in, some
body must use tact and discretion, he
sacrifices himself to his weak wife.
There are thousands of noble and
splendid men that are chained to women
without brains or hearts, and the nobler
these men are the less fitted they are
to deal with such wives. There is no
argument that this type of woman can
understand, except brute force. and as
gentleman cannot beat his wife. no
matter how much she needs II. these
mon are the helpless victims OF the
tyranny OF the weak.
How is a man to deal with a woman
who has Mysteries every time he tries
10 reason with her about her extrava-
ganoe, which is running him? What can
he do II she meets every suggestion with
floods of tears? How can he stop her
II she makes jealous scenes every time
he speaks TO another woman7 He's
helpless to change her. All that he can
DO is just to meeldy submit and keep
from stirring her up.
Or the case may be reversed az
very often Is. and II is the woman with
great intelligence and wide understand
ing and sympathy who IL married to
bizoted and prejudiced man with violent
passions Then II Is he who rules tne
family, and II IL she who seeing his Ut
tleness and realizing that there is noth-
ing so Interchangeable as ignorant stupidity
sets herself the task OF adjusting her
nature TO his, instead Of trying to ad-
lust his 70 hers. Let a man have a
temper like q train of fireworks, he does
not try TO control II. II IL his wife who
spends her like walking on eggs for fear
she will rouse the devil in him. trying
20 keep things hidden and out of sight
that VIII vex him.
As between husband and wife, It IL
always and invariably the noble who
gives way to the ignoble. the strong
that surrenders TO the weak. which Is
a disastrous thing for the children.
Another pitiful illustration Of this Is
the young man or woman who is bound
like a slave at the chariot wheels Of
his or her parents. and who is crushed
In the dust and ground to powder under
the weight Of an old man or woman's
rnoss-grown theories. Not every father
and mother understand the child they
have borne or are fitted TO decide its
destiny. Many an old hen matches out
a swan. and spends her life IN trying TO
keep IL from the water that lie the habitat
for which nature intended II. simply and
solely because she has a dislike for
water herself.
All OF us have known girls whose
parents have broken off good matches
because the father OF mother didn't hap
Den 10 like the way the man eombed his
hair. or had an aversion TO his religion
o. race or for some other reason equally
sc foolish We have known talented
evils who might have made fame and
fortune on the stage but for some senile
parent who had a prejudice against
~esnrs
We have known boys who were pre-
vented from going where fortune called
them by some silly and selfish old mother
who wept when her Johnnie talked about
leaving home. We have known other
men whose lives were ruined because an
on'nionated father. who thought ne knew
what was better for them than they d'd
themselves. forced them into some occu-
patton for which thew were untitled. and
kent them from doing the thing they
wanted TO DO and could have done with
profit
It's the old story. the strong Welding
20 the weak. the wise ruled by the fool
lsh. the swift. young feet slowing them
selves down 20 the lettering gait Of are
" - what q divinest IN rs IN its most
iAiot'c ASPECT. and II explains as moth
inc Use does tho reason why the worlds
r--~ross IL so slow.
Far n family life We have a remark
sh'e example 81 the survival OF tho fittest
b'' re one who survives Is the one
VITO fhrows ~ vhe~over hts or her
sovereign will Is crossed.