Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-10-20

you showed her the least particle of
affection, or given any visible sign
that you cared for her?
I Women don't shed their sweet
tooth when they get married, you
know, and a wife Graves, affection
from her husband ten times as much
as she did from sweetheart. When
she was a girl there were plenty of
men to pay her compliments and
make love to her,> but marriage mar
rows her visible supply of sentimen-
tai bonbons down to one possible CIV
er, eand if he withholds them, he
starves her heart to death.
Do you ever show your wife any
appreciation? The life of the aver
age married woman is life sentence
at hard labor with mighty little pay.
IT is one never-ending round of
cooking and washing, cleaning, sew
ing, and sick nursing, and baby tend
ing, and scrimping and saving, and
the only thing in the world that can
make it worth while for her hus-
band to show that he appreciates her
and that he is grateful to her for all
that she does for him and his.
How many times year do you tell
your wife that she is the most won
derful little woman in the world,
and the greatest manager, and the
best cook, and that you think that
your guardian angel must have been
working over timeWhen she made
up her mind to accompany you to the
altar?
Funny creatures, women. They
put great stress on words and any
one Of them will cheerfully work her
fingers to the bone for man-and
be glad to do it, if he will only kiss
her hand and tell her how he thanks
her for all she does for him.
Do you ever do any particular
thing to make your wife happy? Or
are you one of the men who think
that just being married to him is joy
ride enough through life for any Wo-
man. The treadnlill is no more mo-
notonous than the daily round of eX-
istence for the woman who spends
her hand and tell her how he thinks
of her home doing the same never
ending round of tasks.
Do you realize this and devise little
treats for your wife? Do you go with
her occasionally to places of enter
tainment without having to be drag
ged there, fighting and protesting?
Do you take her out to the theatres
or the movies on your own accord
now and then? Do you sometimes
spend holiday in taking care of the
ibaby and the children and let her
I,,aase day Ere eedons ito nhefz
self?
How do you act at home? Are you
crouch or ray of sunshine? Are
you one of the men who dump down
upon their family all of the nerves,
and irritability and temper and
swearing that they did not expend
upon their clients, OF customers, or
boss? When you put your key in the
lock at night do your wife and chill
dren come running to meet you or do
they grow suddenly silent and TIM
orous?
Do YOU sit up silent as dummy
behind your paper, or are you chatty
and chummy with your wife and
children: Do you growl like a bear
when your wife asks you if you have
heard any news during the day, or
do you try to be entertaining and the
life of the party, as you are outside
your home?
A woman can't make a happy
home by herself. That's a two-hand-
ed lob. Nor can she carry on a con-
versation by herself, though many
wives acquire the monologue habit
of trying to break the awful silence
that pervades, where the man of the
house feels that home is the place IN
which to gloom.
How do you act about money? Do
you go fifty-ffty with your wife, or
make her feel when the bills come in
as if she were criminal who had
devoured every particle of food and
monopolized all of the light and heat,
and was generally responsible for the
high cost of living? Do you give your
wife a personal allowance as her
right or make her come like beg
gar to you for every penny!
Check over these little items OF
conduct and you will have a pretty
good idea of how you stand with
your wife, and what she's telling the
Recording Angel about you.
A. B. CLOER.
Look for care you a good wife?"
Another article by the above writer
which will appear in next Wednes-