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Show A CHEERFUL WIFE. BETTER THAN gold to man is a cheerful wife. But he must do his part toward making her cheerful. It is easy enough for a man to marry a happy woman. But the bride expectant, when she thought how happy she would be, never contemplated the picture of a husband coming home cross as a bear, and going to bed without speaking to her; she had never thought of the long evening when he would not come at all; or his bringing some one home to dinner without warning or preparation; or his awful profanity over so trifling a matter as her little bill of expenses. She had no idea, in fact, there could be anything but happiness in married life, and she had determined to be happy and to distribute her happiness to those about her. It is not often her fault if she doesn=t succeed. Men, as a rule, do not exert themselves to secure their wives' happiness. They know that it requires a great and constant effort to posses property and be secure in its value in the midst of constant commercial changes. The cheerfulness, the happy, hopeful character which every woman displays at the beginning of marriage, is not so easily lost as a fortune; it requires but a small share. A word to the girls in this connection is in order: Beware of the man who doesn=t know enough about cheerfulness to understand its value in daily life. Such a man would improve the first opportunity to grind the cheerfulness out of his home, to frighten a sunbeam into a shadow, and then wonder what is the matter. Such is not better then no husband at all, and when you want a husband to find somebody else B somebody who will give you at least some chance to be happy far into the life beyond the honeymoon. |
