Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1918-08-16
EVERY BLOOMIN' CLOUD
HAS A SILVER LINING.

Why worry about what you can't
help? Besides there is some COM
pensating value in the most evil Of
things. including war. And this
ought to bring much consolation to
married men. Anyhow. this is a
good place to begin with what we
started out to say. It's now well
known to our readers that our wife
went huckleberring, lost span Of
horses, and that the horses have
not yet been found. And we are
just human enough to have done a
lot Of worrying. and to have scold-
ed bit when our wife came home
with borrowed team. And we
kept on worrying and borrowing
grief over the thing till we had as
fine case Of the blues as one ever
saw, 1t was a peach. We were
as cheerful as defeated candidate,
and began to wonder II we ever
could really love our wife again,
when it suddenly dawned on us
that we were the most fortunate
husband this side of Paradise. For
who of us men have not times
without number invested in fake
mining stock. and paid fancy fig-
ure for q gold brick? And who OF
us have not lived to hate ourselves
and paw the air when our wives
have limited for new dress or an
automobile. or some other modern
household necessity, which we have
been unable to supply because Of
past financial blunders, and which
have caused our wives to rise up
and remind us that we are mere
mortals full of error and egotism
Now the average man never has
. ghost Of a show to come back.
He can't put one bean in the pot
and he knows it. So he takes his
medicine and hates himself.
And how 1t takes the wind OF
your sails, oh man. and your wife
knows that she has your hide tack
ed to the fence.
How many times have we wanted
to come back, and couldn't? How
many times have we wished that
the Creator had reversed the order
Of things and made Eve the head Of
the family and man the helpmate
30 that women would makes the
plumbers and US men, towards that
we are, might have the joy that
comes from being able to say Il
told you sol" And we have tried
to make ourselves believe that sc
far as this old earth Is concerned
that would be what the average
man would call 1.-The peace that
surpasseth human understanding. .
It took us two weeks to day
to grasp the truth. Here we were
worrying over q mistake made by
our wife, and we had been blue
when it should have filled US with
delight and made US too happy for
utterance For here was our come
back. and when would our wife
ever dare again to hint that we are
not J. Pierpont Morgan as A.
nancier? When would our wife
dare hint that her coat, four sea-
sons out of style. was not all right
or that q woman ever needs q new
dress? When would she dare hint
that II we hadn't got stung buying
stock in the Golden Gander mine
we might own Ford. and enjoy
life? When would she have the
courage to tell us that we were 8
long wa vs. short of the golden
promises of loves young d calns
when we vowed we'd never. never
see the wife of Peter L. do any
manual work? When would oul
wife ever again dare to take from
its secret hiding place one of oul
ardent love epistles and prove tt
our tntire disgust that we. like al
the millions of men who have fol
lowed Adam and loved and wed
are unworthy to clean the ashe!
from our wife's range, or clean hel
$3.19 Sunday shoes?
We hope that team never come.
home. II II costs US all we arr
worth 1t will be worth 1t. and ",
don't care what the damage is
We tell this In the hope that oul
married men may get wisdom and