| Show THE IDEAL it Is seldom round but the second blest la Is not ot to lio de despised A witty anil and observant frenchman said that a woman would forgive a husband who beat her if i lie he prefaced tile tho performance by presenting lier her with a bouquet amelio rives speaks ot of some one giving the hopeless and helpless sigh of ono who feels that she could make mahe better lovo love than her lover it is 13 to say tho the least unfortunate that tho the sex sef which so peculiarly appreciates certain qualities should bo be the only one b titre 17 1 att b 0 nal nfl alv si sider r I 1 ibi aoi ggs ssi delicate el licato per centi ia t 1 E 10 S tl icso aro are of 51 vi r 0 oa a comans womans highest happiness and they are ara tho the very things which whatever else ruay may como come to her she is certain never to have leavo and to hold but the second bests of life are not to be despised no ono has what lie most wishes for and they can be still happy antl and in a 1 great measure contented who receive something a good gocal deal lower than their ideal and woman in the abstract who is by nature most imperative and critical in her demands haa also had preeminently pre eminently bestowed bestow etl upon her rc cording to tho the divine icv ot of chuat equation ion that faculty of in making albing the best of 1 circumstances I cum cula stances dr holices expresses his pitying 0 wonder over an obvious troth 2 there ther e is nothing short of a gorilla agorilla which a good and pretty woman vroman cannot take taho and make a husband out of tho the leuband husband she wants then is considerate si and thoughtful lie ile remembers her little aches ache and pains and in the tha quaint southern phrase her that ia 13 lier her day dream what cho absolutely sol requires is that lie ho should bo be manly not petty or cf not div given en to gossip and mean nesses that wo ave sorrowfully admit belong by ii light lit or wron wrong 1 to the weaker r vessel ho should bo be truthful ul at least moderately truthful ile ho should tale take her into mi confide confidence ngo and tell her what ha ho is is doing in ill his business f why and alii what it is ia not easy to forgive him wilo who call causes ses ono mortification so according to his meana mcana iio should bo be just if not generous and never never laako lier her stoop to what is ia lawf pitiful ul beyond guessing by his bi bigger r blunter senses tho asking lum him tor for money neither should that bitter mortification come boino through any ally open 1 I neglect nur nor unkind if thoughtless speech or conduct she ii not demanding too much who requires all this sho is if a good wife as is presupposed but calling for her just title due she wants him to be tho the soul of honor to be kind and bravo brave ani and to respect to le ligion and to walk w within its ways to but bo in bhore not p ion lono 0 a ill barad 1 but a father fabber the ibe model to whom 1 aho 1 10 may 1 bulut wil j thosa so little fello fellows in le lepping upon it her c r knece and say eay to them you know that is ia right because yo your r fat father ter does it and this is wrong because ile he would scorn the very thought object lessons are tho the most potent teaching how con can i 1 mother without their aid or in tho the faco face or of them RUTH HALT |
