Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-26
The Game
of Marriage
nv noRorHN NIX.

The great thing that the present mania
/ for outdoor sports Is doing for women
Is not so much in giving them stronger
muscles as Il IL in giving them stronger
mental and moral fiber. And its crown
ing blessing Is that Il Is teaching them
! how 20 play the gamo of life souarely,
and accept it's results without whining.
Women are not sports by nature.
They like to gamble. hut they want TO do
II without risk, and when they lose they
howl 70 heaven They cannot under
stand why YOU cannot have your cake
and eat t. too, nor why one should stick
TO the bad bargain one has made.
one OF the chief reasons that there are
so many divorces is because women are
so lacking In the sportsmanlike spirit.
A girl will deliberately marry n man
knowing him 20 be a drunkRrd. and then
divorce him because he drinks. which
Is manifestly both absurd and unjust.
Or. a girl win marry poor young man
and make his life a torment by her con-
tinual complaints because she can't have
the clothes and Jewels and automobiles
OF mllionaires wife.
II these women had drop of sporting
blood in their veins they would accept
with philosophy the fates they had
brought upon themselves. Tho drunk
ards wife would meet her Incorporate
spouse with red rose IN her hair and
a smile on her lips when he came reel
ing home at &. m, and spend the bal
ance OF the night applying Ice cloths 20
his fevered brow. The poor mans wife
would be strong for the love-in-a-c
tage stuff. and simply flaunt her hand
me- downs in the face Of her little world.
70 a. npNNhtRr pIo IN for he
woman 10 stultify herself. and give the
husband a crooked deal. for he. poor
man, was under the impression that his
wife knew what she was getting when
she married him, and that he represented
her choice In life partners.
This spirit OF the tin-horn sport Is also
abundantly manifested in the way that
! so many women perform their obliga-
tons TO their families They do their
| duty. but they do Il with groaningr and
complaints that make their ministrations
hard TO endure.
How many housekeeper do you
know whose abode is Immediately clean,
whose food Is always delioiously cooked,
whose thrift II marvellous. yet who
makes her home worse than pestilence
because she IL always complaining about
what a slave she IL, and how hard she
! has 20 toi7
How many a wife do you know who
really does do her wifely duty TO her
husband to the last button on his shirt,
! but who rohs II OF all flavor by con-
tinualiy reminding him OF the sacrifices
she makes for him. and the work she
| does for him.
How many mothers do you know who
| do devote themselves TO their children
! who toll and economize that their girls
may have good clothes, and their boys
go 10 college but who never weary OF
bemoaning the hardships OF a mothers
lot. and telling what martyrs they nrs
TO their children7
These women can never understand
why they are not honored for having
done their duty by their families. and
| loved for the sacrifices they have made
II Is because they have not played th'
game In sportsmanlike manner. The,
haven't taken the loss, along with thu
gain. with an even mind.
There is o gambling maxim which says
put up. or shut up" TO the buffer, tt
women might be added this further ad
monition: II you are going TO do you
duty be a sport. DO II without whining