Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-30
SUB ROSA
BY MIMI.
BY MIMI.
Blame It on Yourself.

Ruth has been married for a long
time and she's the unhappiest wom-
an in the world All her youth and
charm have disappeared, and there
remains a tired, discouraged, gray
looking woman, whose every word
Is peeyish and irritably complaining.
Her complaints are all directed
against George, her husband. He is
the gnawing irritation which sours
her disposition and corrodes all the
fine things there ever were in her
nature
George treats her like a slave. lie
orders her to do the most mental
tasks for him. He sits and watches
her carry heavy burdens.
While she drags herself YEARLY
about, serving him at the table, he
eats peacefully, never offering to
help-never saying thank you
simply accepting her services as the
natural. proper thing.
Ruths bitterness is yelling up
within her higher each day. She
wants to know what to do with
husband?
OF course. ] feel sorry for her, and
I'd like to help her But what help
can one give woman who started
out wrong, and is now living the
consequences of her own bad begin
ming.
It's too late to change George now.
She Is reaping what she SoWed-and,
while that's u hard. bitter thing to
do sometimes, it seems as though
we all had to do it.
When Ruth married she was a
sweet little thing. rather cunning
and babylike. George was a big fell
| low, who adored her, and happiness
seemed to be a sure thing.
In those days George used to want
| to help Ruth quite q lot. But she
| was shocked. No, sir, he mustn't do
| was for her to do. She was in
| charge Of the house and she must
keep it nice and tidy for himv
So she became the faithful hand
| maiden in every sense of the word.
| She fetched his coat for him, brought
out his slippers, lighted his pipe. She
| refused to let him open the heavy
! window that was always getting
stuck. She took pride in accomplish
| ing all the little tasks which women
usually leave for their husbands.
! George was a comfort-loving, nor
| mally selfish young animal. and in
time he came to demand what she
| had offered as gracious service.
Of course, the instant she realized
| he wasn't approaching her or what
| she did for him. she began to fuss
| and wall over the way he treated her.
| She made frenzied efforts to change
| her training, and berated him for not
doing all the odd Jobs which she her
/ self had professed love for
| 1t was too late then. The habit
had grown with friend George. He
wasn't to be pried loose from the
comfortable chair which was his
| headquarters at home. Not he,
He grumbled and whined a little
bit and then settled back into the
selfishly indolent animal she had
trained him to be.
| Now. this isn't intended to advise
you to henpeck friend husband into a
condition of abject slavery--but it's
to give you the idea that every young
married woman has to watch out
| lest she build on the wrong kind of
| foundations
| If she starts out by waiting on her
| husband hand and foot, refusing his
offers Of assistance around the house
she has only herself to blame when,
after 10 years of married life, she
! finds herself a hopeless drudge.
! A fair division of labor is the safest
basis for happiness in a home where
servants are out of the question.
If this division be established at
| once, there will never be cause To
complain and fret over a life of do
nestle servitude.
| tCopyright 1927