Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1917-04-13
Love, Honor
And Obey
BY WILLIAM CHANDLER

obey from the marriage SERVICE" said
Charlie Webster to the wife he mar
ried couple Of months before, lis
the most unmitigated nonsense ever
heard Of"
when we were married didn't no
tice that the word was In the SERVICE"
said Mrs. Webster.
"How can a woman love and honor
man unless she is willing to obey
his commands"
Il don't exactly see that"
"In some instances a command Is
necessary. Suppose, for instance, l
should notice that you were permitting
too frequent attentions from one Of
your old flames. l ask you to desist
You pay no attention to my request
l command you to desist. Isn't that
right?'
You might rather say, Dearest, Mr..
So-and-so's attentions to you are at
tracing attention, to your and my In
jury That would be sufficient.
would act upon your warning"
But suppose you didn't"
"Then a command would do no
good"
Him. 1t wouldn't, eh?"
Suppose, on the other hand, asked
you to drop some old flame of yours
and you paid no attention to my re-
quest. Would it do any good for me to
command you to drop herr"
This staggered the young husband,
but not for long.
at wouldn't do any good, and prob
ably it wouldn't do any good for me to
command you, but the right to COM
mand is on my side. There must be
one head to everything. There is
head to all government. Marriage in
wolves government. Government, to be
effective, cannot be with the weaker
it must be with the stronger-party.
Man is stronger than woman; therefore
he is the natural governor"
"When a man and a woman love
each other, what's the need of govern
mentP"
How about the childrenP
1.-THE children? Oh, the mother natu-
rally governs the children"
ooh, she does? You may as well I'M
derstand now as later that If we have
boy shall not permit you to make a
milksop of him by coddling him, as
some mothers do Of their boys"
"And you may as we'll understand
that you shall not give him the harsh
treatment Joe Tucker gives little Ben
81 shall teach our son one thing-obe-
| dience."
obedience to both of us?"
Certainly"
Suppose you tell him to do one thing
and 1 tell him to do anotherT'
"Aha! There you have proved my
case. 1t will be your duty to yield to
me in the matter-in other words, to
obey me. How can our child expect to
obey me unless you set him the exam.
pie? It's my opinion that these divines,
instead Of taking the word obey out
of the marriage service, should make
| it stronger. 1t should be printed In
capitals and with dozen exclamation
points"
"If l were to marry you again ]
would insist on the word obey being
left out"
"Then you wouldn't marry me-"
"And we wouldn't have any son foI
you to abuse"
you mean you would make Miss
Nancy of him."
I'm sorry married you at all. ]
now see in you what have never seen
before, the disposition of a tyrant."
"And 1 see in you what promises to
be a rebellious wife,"
every well. If we can't get on to
gether We'll have to separate"
That was the end of the fracas, fol
she founced out of the room, leaving
her husband gaping after her.
81 wish those COMPOUNDED ministers,
he said to himself, had left the mar
rage service alone. What difference
does it make whether the word obey
is In it or out of it? Maud didn't con
slider it of any Importance till these di
vines brought it up"
He was miserable for an hour, anG
his wife was in the same condition
Then he gave excellent evidence as t.
who was master. His wife being the
weaker party, it was his part to Offel
the olive branch to her, not she to him
He went to her, kissed her and said:
Sweetheart, it seems to me that yol
and quarreling about the manage
ment of boy who may never be borI
is like fighting for the sky for pas
ture."
ut was all my fault" she sObbed
IF we ever have boy shall expec
his father to take the lead In manag
ing him, Of course"
One day three years later Mr.. Web
ster was in the library with his Sol
Billy. Billy deliberately took a tum
bier from a table and smashed it Oh
the floor.
BILLY" said his father, "if you d.
that again 1 shall punish you Sc
verely."
The boy defantly took up a glas
pitcher and repeated the smashing
process.
His father was about to take hin
over his knee for a spanking whel
there was a swish of skirts on tn
? stairs and Mrs. Webster dashed int
? the room, took Billy in her arms an