The Washington herald., 1918-03-04

| OF beauty than is a fat. grizzle headed
woman. Nor Is a man whose con-
! versatlonal repertoire is confined eX-
| clusively to his shop and his golf
score, any more exciting as a COM
paniOn than a woman who babbles
continuously about her children. her
operation and the small beer gossip
of her set.
| Yet woman can still see a hero Of
romance, dashing Romeo whose
very word charms and thrills her.
| in her fat, bald unshayen husband
who sleeps with his mouth open, while
/ to the man his stout, griEzle-headed.
! commonplace wife is the essence of
all that makes matrimony pro-
: longed yawn of boredom.
| Doubtless. II is because men. in
picking their wives. are mainly in-
! fuenCed by the girls good looks and
! youth that their enthusiasm wanes
! so sadly when these qualities vanish,
as they must. under the strain OF
time and married life. This makes il
/ important that when a man enters the
holy estate he should have such a
head OF steam on. that it will carry
him safely past the danger point
when he sees his wife's beauty fade.
and realizes that instead OF being the
angel OF his imagination. she Is Just
4 human woman.
Sometimes this happens. Some
| times the man is so in love with
| the woman he marIies that he never
| really sees her as she is She is
always to him the maiden OF his
dreams. Ste is always the incarnate
romance of hs youth. and blinded
I L.
changes that age works on her, and
| happily. hand I'm hand. they walk
down the years TO a perpetual we'd
| ding march
The danger of women being dis
illusioned by matrimony is not so
great because they pick out their
husbands for less evanescent charms
than beauty and youth. The things
| that attract n woman to a man are
| his strength, his brains. his char
acter. all qualities that improve with
time and experience. and so the mid
, dIe-aged husband has often a thou
sand times more charm for his wife
than he had when she married him.
This is why it is a common thing
| for a woman to fall in love with
her husband. whereas a man prac-
|
| 4 man who was deeply in love
with a woman before marriage may
learn to love her better and better
as the nobility and beauty of her
! character unfolds itself more in the
intimacy of domestic life, but If he
marries with only a mild affection
for her nothing she can do will fan
that feeble spark into a fame. 1t
will always be blown out by the
/ little disenchantments of cOnjugal
life.
| The greatest reason of all. how
ever. why the man should love more
al the time of marriage than the
woman does is because all the cir
| cumstances of domestic life draw a
woman towards a man. while they
separate him from her. A man has
his business, his career, the thou
l sand things that take him away from
home, that occupy his thoughts that
| fill his days. What his wife feels
towards him Is Just one of the many
incidents that go to make UP his
life.
But q wonaE's world Is bounded
by her home. of her home, of which
her husband is the chief figure. He
Is compelled to absorb her thoughts.
because her interests and ambitions
are dependent on him, and his feel
ings towards her makes or mars
her happiness.
1t is for these reasons, and be-
cause man does business on a fixed
capital Of love, while a woman does
business on a love basis that is
easily inf1ated-that the man should
| have a larger stock of 1--we on hand
than the woman. when they go into
a life partnership.
| Copyright. 1918. by the Wheeler Syndicate Inc }