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Show How to Understand Your Husband fr COLD AD DISTAVr. Herbert la perfect I v devoted when we are alone; he Juet aeema cold In public because he 1 reticent," the neglected wife lied bravely. It waa one of thoae traffic caaaa where no one dare offer eympathy. tShe euffered the torture of the damned, and Buffered alone. Only a vry obtuae peraon, -probably a Mere Man, would have failed to e that Herbert waa kllllna; her with coldieaa. He waa courteou alwaya, frigidly polite, but aa dead ,aa old Tutankhamen. Hie crlmaa were not apread on any etatute book. He waa net a rocue, or a drunkard, nor did ha "beat hr up." He merely Inautted her bv Indifference. I n company hla man n ere were pollened. At home ha drd not trouble to apeak to her. Yet never had ahe offended except In loving: htm too much! ' Perhap a woman with a bit of the devil might have "held" him: a i wife who would have "kept him i guessing." But poor Ella had eye for ae other man strove pasaton-ately pasaton-ately to pleas him, aad. In anticipating; antici-pating; hla every wlah, ahe loved not wisely hut too well? Yeare before he had been captivated capti-vated by her fragile beauty and It waa a matter of congratulation to herM when eh captureo tha beau of the town. He waa the spoiled darting of wealthy parent and the adoring wife continued the a polling proceae. Hla coldneaa waa not merely negative neg-ative the not giving affection and appreciation but waa tempered by a fiendish cruelty. Her health waa not robust but ahe bore eight children, chil-dren, every one of which died In Infancy, In-fancy, and aha grieved continuously becauae ehe had sot been able to f ive htm an heir. Aa a matter of act he waa Indifferent to babtea and would have been Irritated with thalr crying and lllneaeea. But h let her Imagine that ahe had defrauded de-frauded him out of the Joya.of fatherhood fath-erhood In order always to keep her la th wrong. Thoae peraon a who alway aa-um aa-um that a man turns rrom hla wife b-aua ahe ta not domeatlc had It wronff here, for 1010 waa a model housekeeper and studied hla every wlah. Keedfesa to aay, he never pre teed a dish or the beauty L of the home, but preserved a glac-i " lal alienee that waa maddening. It 1 waa aa if ahe hurled heraelf coa-i coa-i tlnuouelv agalnat a atone wall. Literally waa U flappeaing, for ' she went Inaane! Her mind gave 1 way from brooding and her health became seriously Impaired. Yet the world In It atupld complacency would have aald, "How atrange a woman of ealth aad culture with a lovely home and devoted hue-band hue-band !" When the doctor had built tip her eonetliutloa and restored her mind, they aent her back to tn cauae. He eald not one word ui eympathv, nor expreeaed on bit of tenderness. When the townspeople learned that thla man waa untrue to hla wife, it waa a public ecaadal. "How i ehocklng. how cruet" they e-i e-i claimed. But o lone; had the wife i lived In an atmoaphere of frigidity that the act lone of her huaband i out side the home were aim oat a matter of Indifference- too me sort of woman had given him amusement amuse-ment and piqued him by coquetry perhaps, but her charma aad tender ten-der advance always had failed. Doubtless this ta an extreme caae Brutality of the silent eort may not b a characteristic of the "dominant "domi-nant male." Men ar popularly euppoeed to-err In the other dlrec-t dlrec-t Ion to be breeay and oruaqua, loud, voctferoua and domineering. But more women die. of coldneaa then 1 generally knowa. In the i nature or thinga. uch condition ar not ao apparent aa violent etna "She etarvad for love." la not a fig-, fig-, ure of apeech. Hunger of tha body 1 ao aaor trai tha hanger of the aoul. It I a matter of eeHa1 bttteraea to ee tha ma a whe ance anade love paaaloaataly. cool and bdcome neglectful. Many wivea of Indifferent men carry th burdea e( hunsry hearts. . a |