Show 10 I j Ma M INTIMATE a TALKS S Sundays Sunday's un WITH GIRLS d ay s i. i i 1 11 WANTED WANTED WANTED WIVES Old maids ar are becoming scarce in inthis inthis this count country The latest late figures of the American gov government show that seven eighty out of eve every hundred women women In this country marry many In other words the chances for a husband and home for the American girl are something something something some some- thing better than eight In ten teb which Is not so bad I But this Is not the point How many of these seven eighty girls and women In each hundred are fitted for mar mar- are arc are prepared for forthe the profession of wives I know It Is lIS not customary to call the domestic of a wife a profession but It Is becoming more and more so every day and the pity of It Is that so few of our girls realize It and still fewer of or their mothers One marriage In every four of or those that do take place ends In divorce which is not so encouraging when you are ate ateI I dreaming of your prospective e Prince Charming who some day will wll storm the citadel of your heart Have you ever stopped serious seriously and earnestly to ask yourself If you ou are trained to be a wife wife not not a housekeeper housekeeper house house- keeper but a home maker I have ha an idea that the great national lack of domestic training of our girls Is one of the fatal rocks that wreck so eo o man many I of our marriages I 1 dont don't mean so called domestic science although that thatIs Is excellent as far as It goes I mean the knowledge of how to make a real I home the home the kind of a place that the husband will dream about when hes he's bent ent over his work and long for fot when things dont don't go Just right and that will wll willbe willbe be to his tired spirit after the da days day's s work an oasis in the desert of toll toil If It we could make our home life what It should be and the Inspiration of our firesides what it might be many of the problems of our courts and our public Institutions and our asylums would be e wiped automatically awa away And the foundation of tho the successful home Is the successful wife The husband Is buried burled In iii the fight for for the days day's bread as a rule and for from eight to ten I hours of the waking day dav is absent from hi his hearth This leaves him roughly rough six to eight hours each day at hom home In addition of course to those spent In n sleep His Ills life his efficiency is an economic contributor to the community hi hl his moral and spiritual value tc his neighborhood and to himself depends depends depends de de- I largely on that quarter of ot Ui the da day which C can n be made a solace and 9 I relaxation and an Incentive or a han hall and a setback and a according to how seriously his wife realizes and utilizes the power In her hands and its obligations The old sa saying that the surest way to a mans man's heart is Js through his stomach is hopelessly out of date datt The surest wa way to a mans man's heart is la by the straightest way possible and possible and only one incident of that way Is Js the dinner ta ta- ble It is the home atmosphere the suggestion of an always understanding Jt s sympathy the welcome of or a woman who is not content with asking bt GIVES and that Indefinable mysterious ous something which we can call can Lov Love that sees the heart bruises bruise hidden from other eyes and makes haste t to ibind j i jI I bind them up and in the doing receives receive always more than is given these given these are the things that make a successful horns horn and a successful wife The great crying nee need of this coon coun try Is wives wives not not wives in name only but wives in spirit and in deed Given wives of this kind and the economic and sociological and moral future of the country will wll take care of Itself Copyright right 1918 by The Bell hell Syndicate Inc Ina |