The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-05-14
Blames Lack
of Effort for
Stolen
Affections

! He Is blind to their charms, deaf to
their Establishments. 1t is only when
| he has ceased to love his wife, when
he is tired of her, that he is in dam
ger. Then he goes out and begins to
look for temptation, looks for some
woman to kidnap him, and any girl
babe can turn the trick.
It's exactly the same way with
women. AS long as a woman thinks
that her husband is the greatest man
in the world, he is the only man in
the world SO far as she is concerned.
The handsomest moving picture hero
that had his classic profile flashed
on screen could not win from her a
second glance. The most romantic
matinee actor would woo her in vain.
No villain could be subtle enough
to win her away from her allegiance
to her husband.
the everlasting sameness of Eden
and fed up on Adams society that she
listened to the serpent, and nibbled
at the forbidden fruit. The snake
was there in the grass all the time,
but he never got in his work until
the lady got ready to listen to an
earful
|. And it is thus with all of Mother
Ewes daughters. No man enters
into home and breaks it up unless
the woman in it leaves the door open
for him, and he is pretty sure that
there's welcome printed on the door
mat. No man steals a womans heart
away from her husband unless she
has left it lying around loose in a
conspicuous place.
As a matter Of fact the home
wrecker is mythical figure and, like
Mrs. Harris in Dickens story, there
amt no SIGH a individual" When a
mans wife divorces him it saves his
face to lay the blame on some schem-
ing blackguard whom he accuses of
stealing his wife away from him ana
breaking up his home. When a wom-
ans husband falls in love with anoth-
err woman it salyes the hurt to her
pride to picture an enchantress who
woye spells about him that he was
poWerlesS to resist. and to moan that
a conscience creature took him
from her and WRECKED her home
1t Is much more soothing to ones
self-love to accuse love thief of hav-
ing stolen the affections of your hus-
band or wife than to admit that you
lost them through carelessness, or
indifference. or because you were too
lazy to make the proper effort to
safeguard your treasure.
When a man marries a pretty and
gay young girl and dumps her down
at home and never provides her with
any amusement or pleasure; when a
man marries sensitive and affec-
tionate woman and treats her with
cold and callous Indifference; when
man is grumpy and grouchy at
home, and stingy and mean to his
wife, it is he, himself, who alienates
his wife's affections from him, and
not ANOTHER. 1t is he who wrecks
his owh~home, not another.
When woman let's herself ge,
sloppy and sln""h" and disgusting to
look at; when she is always whining
and complaining about everything
she makes home that is ill-kept
and untidy, and sets a table that is
first aid to dyspepsia, she mans the
wrecking crew that lays her home in
ruins and throws her husband into
the arms of the nearest good tured
woman who has her hair combed and
a clean collar on.
1t is mighty seldom that you hear
of real first-class husband being
stolen away from his wife. 1t is
still SCHOONER" that you hear of a
man being robbed of devoted wife.
And you never hear of a home be-
ing broken up in which both the hus-
band and wife are faithful and true
to each other, and working together
to make happy home.
Certainly, the home wreckers should
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