The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-05

man who slaves himself to death to
crafty her every within, but instead of
doing flip-ilops OF gratitude perpetual
" before him, she yawn' III his face
and complains because he is so alb
sorbed in business that he doesn't have
tune to read the six best sellers or
keep up with the latest dancing step.
and do the society act
And we see women who are married
to worthless loaferS, too druukards and
FOUNDERS who tlout them and disgrace
them and neglect them and who cling
with a constancy OF devotion that
nothing can shake to these worthless
hulks OF humanity
And the Strangest part OF IT all is
that the man who has got the wife who
never considers him considers her more
than any man ever does the wife who
makes a doormat OF herself for him.
and that the more woman has to for
give in a husband. the more she seems
To love him
Why this is thus We do not know II
merely is Perhaps II really is more
blessed to give than to receive, and
that we feel a peculiar tenderness to
ward the weak and erring wife OF huS
| band because she OF he continually calls
out what is best III us. so that in cur
souls we are continually .suilused with
glow OF Seli-rlghteousncW that keeps
us warm and happy
Perhaps, after ALL perpetual goodness
/ is inanc II IS like a continual diet OF
/ muSh and milk, good for us and per
| icctly wholesome. but tastelcsS and apt
10 cloy on the palate, whereas wicked
ness is always more OF less exciting
and n)cctS some paprika into the daily
| domestic menu.
A wife whose every move you can
forecast, who is absolutely sure to do
IN any emergency and who can always
! be relied upon to meet YOU with q glad,
I sweet smile is undoubtedly comfortable
to live with, but she has no thrills.
] whereas a wife whose next move kept
| you guessing and who was Just as likely
to act like wild cat as sucking dove
might not make matrimony a sane and
safe proposition, but it would never be
/ dull.
And the same thing would hold true
of the wandering husband. The neg
lccted wie's pathway may be Strewu
with ,hnrns but she never has to com
plain because she lives in a rut
Bernard Shaw explains, as well as
it can be explained, why the imperfec,
husband and wife are more cherished
than the model ones when in his play OF
Getting Married" he makes the
brother in-aw tell why they always
took the fascinating Mrs George back
after each OF her excursions after
romance "You see, she was so inter
: es,ing," he said, "She had so man,
strange experiences"
Family life is monotonous. at best
and il is our instructive effort to ge
away from this tha, makes us cherisl
those who have spice Of the devil II
them above those who are just all un
adulterated saint This is the why, also
OF the family spat.
IL is perfectly evident to the onlookcr
that almost every family quarrel is de
libcratcly provoked There are c-riair
subjects that every wife knows have ex-
actly the same effect on her husband
as waving a red flag before a mad bull
She will go along for days and days
sometimes for months, neatly side
stepping these unpleasant topics, and
then suddenly, without special occasion
she will cast the fighting word into the
ring, and a battle royal follows
Every husband knows that he car
make his wife eat out OF his hand If he
will call her temper nerves, and tell hrr
when she starts a row that she is per
iectly beautiful and has the pret,ieS
mouth he ever saw Ninety-nine time,
ont OF hundred he runs up theS,
lightning rods when he sees her storm
signal set, but on the hundrcdth tim,
he does, or says, something to precipi.
tate the outbreak, and they fight i
through in all its fury
Why2 Simply because they had got
ten bored 10 death with the monotonl
OF domes,icity, and they had to inJec
some excitement into it.
And that is why the model husband
and wife prove failures But there il
no reason for us TO be unduly anxious