El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-11-27

MAN who vas guilty of using
a abusive language TO his wife
l. n has been sentenced by Long
Island Judge nC- TO speak TO his wife
for six months
Daniel. = second Daniel come to
Judgment. Thus is the punishment
made to fit the crime OF wife oaitins'
for the chief indoor amusement OF
many a husband is saying the things
TO the defenceIess woman who is mar
ried 10 him that he would not dare TO
say to a man even half his own size
some SIIenees Eloquent of Hatred.
Would that there were some way 70
extend this luminous legal decision 10
all the DULLES and naggers and Nlta-
goes. male and female, VINO make tns
the holy estate a torment win men
tongues. Would that they might be
enfofned from speaking al all unless
thew spea-- pleasantly What place
Of neace and rest would home sweet
home, be il buttressed up with few
legal gagsi
There is the silence that refrains from
sneech. and there is the silence that
saws things more loudly than a mega
phone There are silence more pIo-
fame than any cu-sing could he
Who has not known some house
hold in which the husband and father
kent his trembling family IN order Dy
means of the great silent gTouch some
Gays ne viii come home for dinner.
or down to breakfast, with lace as
grim and unsmiling as death Some
thing is wrong. He eats and drinks IN
silence, refusing even to ask for what
he wants. He reads his paper with a
portentous dumbness that strikes ter
ror into his wife's bosom.
Silent Crouch Is Always Proud.
Finally some one screws up cout-
IA hat he
Is he ill2 Has anything gone WrOnG:
Has the wife done anything 10 ofIend
him? Have the children? To all queries
he RESPONDS NOTHING" in a tone or
voice that Indicates the universe is out
Of gear. and that arraigns everybody
in the house. from the baby UP, to haY-
ing criminally conspired against ms
happiness and peace and comfort
such a man always takes great ere
dit for never saying anything when
he is mad, but he would be less brutal
il he smashed the furniture and 6Wore
a blue streak y wife can deal with a
red-hOt angry man who says things
and gives her a chance to talk back
and explain but with a dumb one she
is utterly helpless. she can't argue
with silence She can only grit her
teeth and endure what she knows 20
be an injustice and an outrage
or perhaps IL is a woman VINO uses
that awful silence to club her husband
into submission. lie tells her that
which she has set her heart. She does
not drgue or protest. or weep a few
tears over il, after the normal manner
OF women. and then kiss and maze
Up. and be pleasant again Oh, no,
she merely passes into a state OF frozen
silence that makes the North Pole
seem warm companionabls BY con-
trast
She sends the temperature of the
house down 10 the freezing point She
fills il with an atmosphere OF gloom
and melancholy so thick that you could
cut IL with a knife, and she keeps
things tbs way until her husband takes
to dr. or gives in to her.
Ignoring the silent GrOueh.
And she thinks she's been a perfect
lady because she hasn't uttered any
Of the mean, hateful, selfish things
that she was thinking. Yet any hus-
band on earth would a million times
rather have dealt with spit-fire wife
who would have blaZed up in a pas
sion OF disappointment and wrath. and
fought the matter out IN five minutes,
and then let il rest
It's nonsense to say that those who
are unfortunate eOnugh to have to live
in the same house with silent grouchers
should not notice their glum moods. As
well might you say that you should
not get wet when YOU 20 out in the
rain or that YOU should not catch
malaria when YOU breathe the fctid
air of a swamp.
Speech is silver and silence is gOl-
den" says the old pr0verh. But This