The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1922-06-09
PLAYING SQUARE WITH THE WIFE
AND KlDS-MAKIN0 A HOME OF
A HOUSE.
BY REX GROVES WHITE.


A HOUSE.
BY REX GROVES WHITE.
Editor Community News Service.
1t IL to be presumed-in the United
states-that you, friend, married youl
wife because you loved her. she gave
herself to you without question. with
a firm and fixed belief that you tcld
her the truth when you entered the
lifelong partnership. She believed
then, and she believes now, that your
love will find expression not only in
words but in deeds. That you will dc
all that is humanity possible to- make
her happy, to keep her in health. to
make her motherhood, IL such should
come. glory.
Have you done that? Have you kept
your part CT the agreement that is
just as binding whether it was ex-
pressed in words or only in inference?
You have sheltered her, fed her.
clothed her. Is that all your duty?
You have taken out insurance, per-
haps bought her not only the needed
things of life but some Of the Injuries.
you have not forgotten the celebration
of the wedding anniversary or her
birthday. You have told her. the
truth about all things. remember the
caresses that made of your Honeymoon
q wonderful memory, stod by her. pro-
tected her. loved her-and all that is
fine and splendid and worthy Of you
as man and as citizen.
But there is. perhaps. one thing you
haven't dcne and that one thing ie the
goal of all your courtship, all your
love. all the happy days of the honey
moon, all the preparation of your
truth and hers, the harbor toward
which your ship should be driven
and that one thing is the building Of
a home. home is net house, it is
true, but given the house the wife will
make the home and to make it last
ing, true shelter. a place Of refuge
and content that home must be yours
not another mans. Every life in
nature from the smallest brown bird
to- the giant hears that growl from
darkened caves has set an example.
They one and all have a home that
theirs. home for which they will
battle to the death or return to thru
greatest difficulty.
What will that home mean to your
wife? Is it hard 10 see? Put the an
swer in words 1t will give her a heart
at ease. 1t will mean to her that nc
matter what storms arise she need
not fear the chill and echoing streets.
1t will mean that she can enter down
into the valley Of shadow to bring
forth new life with smile on her
lips for she will know that when that
tiny life grows up it will have a
shelter that cannot be taken away by
every within of fortune or the careless
word of a stranger.
Is she not entitled. that little wife
of yours that has stood by in eun-
shine and storm. to a home where she
can give expression to her happiness
and find the JOY that ell women find
in making of it a thing of beauty and
comfort, place where her children
can grow in strength and mind and
passing on into manhood look hack
with such golden memory of the days
that were the very name "home" will
be sacred.
IL she not worth the extra effort
that will bring her the realisation. of
her woman's dreams. the garden
where she can putter and grow the
flowers she resembled in her youth.
the garden that will give her health
and bright eyes and the surging life
that out door labor ives. How about
the children. Will they be entitled to
that same arden, to the yard. all their
own, where they can build their caves
and play houses. where they can rOmp
and tear and rip and rend with all the
gay. madness Of chtldhe cd without a
frowning stranger to forbid or be
hearing the everlasting: Children. be
careful. The house isn't ours. you
know"
Is the wife ding to sleep at night
with content in her soul because she
knows II the grim reaper swings his
sicgle before the sun sinks on the
morrow that her little ones viii still
have home, a shelter. a place where
no man may forbid them. 10 the wife
going to knew that when she tolls all
day to clean and make bright that the
thing she has made beautiful IL her
own or II she to consider that labor
lost at any moment when the sighted
chance may take away the rented
quarters? IL she going to knew that
you love her 30 much and love your
children 90 greatly that you will be
tireless In your efforts for them or 10
she going to be left to wistfully fol-
low you from house to house. ang-
ing her life and her plans and her
hopes at every move?
Are the children going to grow up
with . sense Of security. Of import
ance, Of being q part Of your city and
q part Of the community about them
-or are they to grow up with the
wander lust already alive the heart
that has never known . true hcme.
dangerous lust that may take them
far and take them III. Dou you know
what constant change does to the mind
Of your child ~ It 10 jerked from one
course Of study 20 another. from one
school room to anthsr. firm ne inau-