Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-08-21

Ter, TuSneQ with society ana CLUBS,
and her own children and house,
keeps putting off from year to year.
The Grand Inquisitor, Himself,
can not torture parents as can the
hand that has laid upon a mothers
breast or chung about a father S
neck.
Many a man and woman drinks
the bittefest drop in the cup of re-
morse when they look down on the
patient faces of their old fathers and
mothers for the last time, and re-
member how easily they might have
made them happy, and that they did
not do it.
Wives make unnecessary bells for
their husbands by their selfishness.
They look upon marriage as a graft,
and they are determined to get as
much as possible and to give as
little. A woman will marry a man
knowing that he is poor, and, in
stead of making the best of her lot,
she whines and frets and complains
because she has not everything that
a rich woman has,
Many a woman is too, lazy to keep
house; too Indifferent to her hus-
bands comfort to see that he has
decent meals; too thriftless to spend
wisely the money he earns. Many
a woman never says one word of APP
probation to her husband or gives
him one sign that she looks upon
him as anything but a slave who is
bound to toll to supply her wants.
Many man comes home at night
to a place that is an inferno of dirt
and confusion; of unswept floors and
unWashed dishes; of dirty, noisy, un-
trained children, and dehcatessen
food, and a frowsy woman in a soiled
kimono.
Such a home is hell on earth,
made by a woman who could turn it
into paradise if she would. For
every woman can make her home a
place of peace, and rest. and quiet,
calm haven in which a man may
drop anchor after he has buffeted
the storms of business all day.
And any woman can make her
husband happy, and make him feel
that marriage is worth while, if she
will let him see that he is still the
hero of her girlish dreams and that
she does not take his hard work for
her and the sacrifices he makes for
her for granted, but that she stands
in awe and reverence before the
heroism of the husbands who liter
ally give their lives to their families.
Men make unnecessary hells for
their wives by their silence; by their
grumpiness; by their grouchiness;
bV their tempers that take out on an
unoffending wife the nerve and ir-
ritability that they dared not show
to the outside world. Many q woml
an lives in terror of the devil in her
husband. Many a woman starves
to death for word of affection.
Many a woman's whole married life
is a cold, miserable, lonely journey,
full of disappointment, of dreariness,
of vain regrets and longings, just be-
cause her husband withholds all ten
derness and understanding from her.
Just because of few words he
does pot take the trouble to say.
It's a terrible thing for a man to
take a womans life in his hands and
break it as wantonly as bad child
breaks a toy. Yet men do it con-
tinually. And it's the tragedy OF
tragedies to think that nearly every
miserable marriage is an unneces-
sary hell Either the man or the
woman could nearly always save it.
Both, working together, could sure.
ly save it,
The unnecessary bells that we
make for each other. How pitiful.
Copyright, 1929