The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-09-04

wife and helping your husband by
the fact that l have seen a good
woman, who was doing her conscien-
tious best to be a perfect wife and
a help to her husband, utterly ruin
him. and I have seen a selfish brute
of a woman make a man.
II have friend who g everything
that woman should be-intelligent,
cultured, refined, capable, self con :
trolied, and with the highest ideals
of duty. She married a man who
turned ont to be selfish, high-tem-
pered and lazy.
my friend is not a weak woman,
but because family rows and scenes
were vulgar and degrading in her
sight, she encouraged her husband in
his tempers by avoiding every sub
iect of dispute and giving in to him
rather than see him go irto one of
his shameful RACES. When she found
that he was oftener out of a job than
in one, and that they had not the
money to pay their bills, she went to
work rather than be dependent on
her relatives for help. And when
the husband discovered that she
could support the family he stepped
aside and let her do it.
NOW, my friend has one child--a
son--who under the same method of
treatment she had applied to his
father grew up to be as no account
and disagreeable as his Stacker ia
Their.
Married Little Red Haired Girl.
This precious youth got married
couple of years ago, but he didn't
,tnIy N,,k hi No.
He married little red-headed girl
with swapping, pale blue eyes, who
had worked her way up from cash
girl to head saleslady in a depart
ment of a big store, and she wasn't
overburdered with refinement of deli =
cate sensibilities, or any morbid fear
of hurting any ones finer feelings.
And she had a temper like train
Of fireworks.
1.-THE first time her pampered hus-
band got peeved about something, in
stead of soothing him down about it,
as his mother would have done, and
apologizing all over the place and
telling him it should never happen
again. she few into a rage that made
his little ebullition of temper seem
like the sputtering of a candle beside
a volcano. She raved and broke up
things. and made a rough house that
scared him into good behavior. Why,
he is so afraid of riling her and get
ting her started that he's as meek as
Moses-he who never even tried to
control his temper before.
Has Made Him Work.
"And she has made him work. She
resigned her job when she got mar
ia 1~yI l.. 4, I.
did opinion of man who didn't sup
port his family. Also she informed
him that she wasn't the kind of fool
that his mother was, and that she
didn't propose to support any able
done.
And when he threw up his situa-
ton. as he had been in the habit of
doing when some little thing went
wrong in the office, she promptly
packed her trunk and went to her
mothers, and told him that he needn't
follow, and she wouldn't come back
until he was able to take care of her.
And she isn't any model of econ
omy, either. She tells him that she
has to have things and he has got
to get them for her, and he does.
And because this necessity of making
money is driving him all the time
he has bent his back to his work and
is making good.
And this woman who Is selfish
and greedy and shrewish is making
q fine, successful man out of her hus-
band, whereas his mother who was
gentle and fine and noble, ruined her
husband. All Of which shows how
hard 1t Is to tell when you are really
being a good wife and doing your
duty by your husband"
Copyright by Wheeler Syndicate.)