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Show The True Marriage The husband who is really fond of his wife, who is in full sympathy with her, who is proud of her, is rarely troubled as to her domesticity. It is needless to say that he wishes her to be mindful of his wants and solicitous for her children, if she has any, but he does not think she should hug her own hearth-stone and never catch a glimpse of the outer world. His lively affection urges him toward her not from her. When he goes out he like to take her with him; he desires that others should see the woman he has chosen for his mate; he wants to have his taste approved, his good fortune in securing her made manifest. He is glad that she should be domestic but not domestic alone. He knows, as all men know, that a complete, rounded, large-minded woman can adorn home and society at the same time; that she may be a model wife and an excellent mother, and yet a charming companion, a delightful entertainer, an inspiring friend. He believes her too agreeable, too worthy, too helpful, to be swallowed up in one sphere of duties, to be dalied [dallied] and stunted by one form of development. He seeks for her some diversity of occupation, some variety of experience, an ampler life, in short, than can be contained within four walls and the enactment of a single part. His love for her expresses itself in comradeship, and in comradeship there is something besides domesticity. - N.Y. (NEW YORK) Sunday Times. |