Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-25

| grammed each others personality, any
husband and wife can get along together
and any domestic plant can be run on
! oiled ball bearings ii only the party of the
/ hrst part and the party of the second part
| have intelligence enough to learn little
from experience.
Ii doesn't take '-nman long to find out
! that her husband - naive vanity about
/ posing as the llea,, -, the House. and that
he hates to be asked where he ia going,
and that certain subjects have the same
effect upon him that a red flag has on a
mad bull
How more than stupid of her, then, not
to ask his opinion onevery subject whether
she takes it or not: not To refrain from
nagging and not to clamp the lid down,
| good and tight. on the topics that are
anathema to him.
But instead of learning life's little les
son that would assure them devoted
husbands and peaceful homes, the great
majority of wives learn nothing from the
experience of a hundred fights that have
left their hearts wounded and SCARED
and they go along precipitating the rows
that will end in banged door shut behind
an angry husband and pillow wet with
unnecessary teas.
Nor is there any man of ordinary in
telligence who hasn't found out within
SIN months after marriage exactly how to
work his Maria He's ascertained that 10
ism { safe to admit to ever having particu-
larry noticed another woman even ii she's
homely as sin and 100 years old; that it's
diplomatic to call ones wife's temper.
nerves, and that she will forgive her
husband anything so long as he tells her
fat is becoming. and she grows more
beautiful with age.
But how few men cash in their dearly
bought knowledge of femininity and get
therefore wives who eat out of their hands
and celebrate their virtues in the market
place? No. They go on ignoring their
experience of how to manage a woman,
and expect her to be reasonable and sensi-
Bile, and mourn because she is not
Perhaps, tho, the most inexplicahle
failure to learn from experience is fur
nished by those people who have made
the trip from wealth TO poverty, and back
again, and who gailv hit the toboggan
slide for the second descent.
There IS no blinking the terrors of
poverty, and to none are they 80 horrible
as to those who have been used to affiu-
ence. To have been nurtured 10 the lap
OF plenty: TO have known the freedom and
independence that full pocketbool
gives; TO have never worn anything but
good clothes and had good food, beautiful
and cultivated surroundings; TO have
always had everything that goes with
evening dress. as Kipling puts it,
Then to wake to find one 5 self penniess,
that all of ones money slipped through
one fingers: to be tortured with anxiety
as to where the next meal is to come from
TO have to wear shabby clothes whose very
touch irTitates one; to be doomed to the
hell OF dirty sordid surroundings, what
suffering can be greater-what fate more
cruel?
You would think that the men and
women who had once had money and lost
1t would be perfect misers. afraid to spend
a cent, if luck again smiled upon them,
but In the great majority of cases no such
thing happens
Those who have wasted their substance
the INST time, turn spenders again and
throw it away the second time as care
lessly as if there was no black memory
OF want In the back of their heads TO warn
them that money has wings. Those who
have gambled away their fortunes on hair
brained schemes or trying 10 break Wall
Street, take another turn at the Wheel
OF Chance.
They have learned nothing from ex-
perience.
Experience Is hard school. but fools
will learn in no other We NAV well take
this TO heart What has life taught YOU?
Are YOU one of the fools who never
learn-or the wise man who never makes
a mistake the second time?