San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-02-25
Do Married Women Make
the Best Wives?
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
America Popular Woman for Women
BY KATHLEEN NORRIS .
Americas Most Popular Woman Writer for Women


led at a few years ago. We
Id it with such phrases as "the
sr the fewer" and a pound Of
ice" and other frankly idiotic
1t, like a lot of other jokes, the
have brought It to the dignity
real problem and We women OF
may honestly face it tc our ad-
hge.
married women make the best
}?
e all know the qualities that are
fssed by the ideal wifs- the help.
sympathy, the interest, the low
the womanly appearance, the
of, and care for, hoTc and chill
love all, she loves her husband
ideal wife.
e tells him so; she spreads about
that atmosphere of happy, tender,
hate affection that made their
ymOon so radiant.
sssyes go to find him the minute
enters a crowded rooIl, and she
him at the door every night TO
pine him into that little paradise
armth, and order, and sweetness,
happiness that is all enclosed in
thoughts when he says the one
''home."
bw many men get all that, after
irst year or two Of marriage, from
wives?
me of them get it, from other
en.
me of them have love. sympathy,
rstanding, for just a ycar-at the
for two years-and then never
in all their lives.
Regaining Lost Love.
get great many letters from dis
olate wives, asking me hoy a
an may regain her b1;hand's af-
On. There is, after all, only one
to regain it, and thot is, never
bse it.
bu can quarrel with HIM, differ
him, scold him, blame him; you
20 through death, poverty, illness,
Bile of all sorts with him; you can
your beauty, he can icse his job,
still life will be sweet and full
thrilling to you both-as long as
Knows you love him.
barrels are nothing, rccOnciliationE
one of the legitimate JOYS of life,
all. But you two must feel that
belong to each other-that he is
s, Just as your mother, and your
r, and your baby are :'ours.
br better, for worse, in sickness
in health, you cleave desperately
hat twenty pound lump OF baby
no matter how noisy and rest
and exacting and wet and hur-
and wakeful he may be. You
r want to swap your baby Win
mes else.
ecausc you love. him. And When
hector says gravely that he doesh I
the looks of his little throat, aud
Id like to try the serum. what an
kgony gets hold of your beart, and
brassy the sunlight is, and how
~ the whole big spring world.
Cause You love him.
Only a Little Mother.
for mother-well. she may be only
Ittle mother, with thinning gray
and eyes looking through IDund
Itacles, and she may greet you IN
| tie room with a sewing machine
canary and gerauiums and n
ograph and your graduation pic
and the easel picture of your
grandfather all mussed up in 1t
|tber. And she may have an apron
her alpacs skirt, and q thimble
her worn hand
hit do you ever look 1T million
dowager, with her diamonds and
limousine and her heavy sill;
as and deliberately un'iulated white
and say, Il wish she was mr.
hertz
Ideed. you do not. Tho limousine
its occupant pass you unheeded,
YOU 60 through the picket gate,
IN the steps with their peelihS
I, and into the kitchen, and you
your arms about her, aud she has
Itop washing the globes while you
anxiously:
Mother. darling, Daddy said that
weren't feeling awfully Well!
Ind when her dear face crinklcs
laughter at the mere idea of be-
Iill, you laugh, too, but you laugh
eyes trimming over with tears.
ecause you love her.
A Wonderful Love.
low, there Is certainly a married
as definite and as deep as mother
and daughter love.
here are marriages made between
Ions who never could feel 1t, OF
sc. lust as there are unnatural
hers and unnatural daughters.
Int for the most of us this wonder
hove is possible, and thinking over
whole big problem, as tie develop
histories of ones friends obliges
To do in these days ot marital
Tres on all sides. i have been Won
s7SIf a very natural blunder isn't
blame for much of the unhappiness
is threatening the actiIal lhstltu'
of marriage today.
wonder If most young wives, N
first ecstatic flush Of love given
returned, that radiant time that
me of cunning Natures little plans
the preservation of the race, don't
[et that the wisest, and tie gravest
Il is only a sort of little boy after
he doesn't care what his wife does
Is. wears, says, thinks-as long as
loves him. :.
lis long as she. is sweet to him,
|iy TO laugh. ready to listen, ready
need be-to defend him, even to
/ self, then how can be get along
bout her?
n is nv. honest conviction that meu
infinitely less concerned in meals.
lie cloths, salad dressings, mar
waves, monogramSled sheets, dust
dinner calls than VIC think they
A Successful Wife.
woman who really and truly loves
l.-k..l hoe tho nd 20 ptnpc over