Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-03-06

A YOUNG woman j. in love with i
~ man she considers her social and
mental inferior. and she wants
TO know what think about her marry
ing him.
NY advice is-don't do il. And I say
this for the mans sake as well as for
the girls There is neither happiness
nor harmony in those households where
the wife is superior TO the husband
Whenever the gray mare Is the better
horse in the domestic team. the other
nag Is always balky and never pulls
true and they never get anywhere
4 famous divorce lawyer said not
long ago that the way 10 be happy
though married. was for a man 10 keep his
wife admiring him That pleased him.
and satisfied her. and established the
proper connubial atmosphere said
man might be seven different kinds OF
= dub. but as long as he could keep
his wife under the delusion that he
was A superior creature that she was
privileged 10 worship and burn incense
before. all was well, but the minute
she suspected he was poor. weak crea-
ture who wasn't in her class. the trou-
bic began In a word, IL was the eX-
perfeuce of this divorce lawyer that
when criticism came i'm al the door. love
few out Of the window
Undoubtedly. this lawyers opinion IS
correct. The very foundation stones OF
= voman's love for a man are admira-
ton and respect. No woman ever loVe1
n man long TO whom she did not look up.
Moreover. women are fcUlishly sensi-
tive TO little things. aud sweet love has
been slain lust as often by a pair ~
trousers three inches toe short. or co.,
lar Of the vintage OF 1905. or by suitor
not knowing what TO DO with his hands
o. his hat. as il has by some defect r
character or act OF faithfulness.
Indeed. 2 woman could forgive a man
half the crimes in the calendar and love
him still easier than she could his lapses
IN grammar or eating his soup audioIy.
The rough diamond theory is delightful
in romance. out il does not work out
satisfactorily in real life. The woms n
who Is ashamed OF her husband. and VINO
feels called upon TO apologize for him
and explain him 10 her friends, eNper-
fences a continual maTtyrdOm OF mortin-
cation that soon kills her affection Tor
him.
Perhaps when nature made woman OF
smaller stature than man, IL intended her
20 Iouk UP and not down, perhaps II Is
the result Of the thousands OF years OF
sxperfence In which man has assumed an
over-Iordship over woman, but what
ever the reason. the result is that, 10 De
really happy in marriage, VIE must
feel that her husband - wiser, stronger
bigger and broader than she is She mus /.
be able TO respect and admire him, an
depend upon his judgment, which she
cannot do If she knows that she is his
superior
The least obseryanJ OF US know this.
70. een We hear a woman begin every
sentence with. John says 50 and SO,
We know that the dove OF peace has
taken I'd it's perpetual rOOsting place on
the roof tree OF that family On the
contrary. when we hear woman cor
-sctiug her husbands grammar and
pronunciation, and setting him right
about his dates and figures in an ar
Eumeut. we begin to wonder now long
ii will be before we hear about the
q .vorce proceedings
II a woman finds an inferior husband
: thorn in the flesh De sure man hnds
a superior wife a torment not 10 be
borne The one thing that no man in
the world can ever, forgive a woman $
knowing more than he does. or being
rlsyerer than he =. and. being able 10
put him right
This IS bad enough in any woman. but
II is fntolerabIe I'm a wife. and no man 5
love ever long survives such an ordeal
Il IS because a man wants TO feel
superior 20 his wife and be an oracle
70 her that the average man Is as
ssraid OF the collegebred woman as he
is e Satan himself. and why husbands
really dote on silly little geese of
wives who never have single thought
beyond clothes and matinees and the
last dancing step man can forgive
. woman for not having enough sense
TO know how to keep house OF to man
age her affairs properly a thousand
times easier than he can forgive her for
knowing more. about the polaical situa-
ton than he does
The mans vanity demands that he he
The front and ornament Of the house
hold. and &c is only the rare man who
IS generous enough TO he able to en-