Show tilo tile tro tre laws of storms 11 ax i t se lloid bold aliks r Ther there eare oare are periods in life says the pall mall mail gazette when brood relations seem born to harass and bewilder each other where is the bon aon who on orl arriving at age has not gone in the very opposite direction to his fathers wishes either with regard to calling opinions or marriage where is the father who has not waked up some morning to the conviction that with the best intentions in the world the paternal T dation is a failure if he is a philosopher he will submit to the inevitable witha witha good grace and urge lyes yes kyes it is all very well to dream when my son lay in his bis cradle how happy I 1 should be if he ever grew grow up to be a man to have him as a friend companion and adviser ah I 1 life would indeed be worth having but how differently things turn out to what one expects he has taken up with hateful opinions on politics xe religion ligion and everything else worth thinking about he is determined to marry an odious woman he criticizes criticises and distrusts my most serious condic eions we shall always maintain affectionate relations but as to friendship that Is ia quite another thing if ou on the other hand he is dull headed and iron fron willed the transient coldness is sure to lead to an irrevocable separation on which indeed inc inn eed of the domestic relations doeg does not disenchantment at some time or other wait 2 but why should we lose faith in our relations if when weighed in the bal ance they are found wanting 2 in nine cases out of ten there is a very I 1 inadequate hasis habis for domestic discord conjugal parental or frate fraternal 1 nal nai the beginning and end is most moat often disappoint ment merit A wise man will never dever let his hib wife know that he has fallen off his ideal the wise woman will never show that she does not think chink her husband a hero they will exercise toward each other the same sort of hopeful forbearance br neb nce nee that the they y exercise toward to ward their friends and citizens in general we often bear all kind of grievances from the outer world with a good grace when half the amount of provocation would suffice to produce a very whirlwind at loe ioe home bome the laws of domestic storms are indeed simple simpie enough when studied practically ti some unfortunate men and women spend their lives in devising how this or that le is to be avoided lik like the dukes daughter in M dis ani aul amusing using novel who if her husband cried for the moon promised it to him immediately they are always ready to say black is white for the sake of being agreeable at night if they say their prayers at all they cant help whispering spering that they might with propriety prie ty include a thanksgiving for having kept the dreaded object of their affections in good humor tor lor a day but the sort of people who subject them selves to such a life of shifts shams and etty petty little secrets know nothing of tite the tragedy of a great storm they get battered about and are always in dirty weather but they do not go wholly I 1 y to pieces an unfortunate journalist condemned to write a special article on cabs went back to the garden of eden and said we are told that adam and eve were driven out of paradise but the cautious student of biblical hist history ory must not perforce believe that they were packed into a cab and rattled away along the euphrates at a rate with mrs eve on her knees on the back beat seat waving her handkerchief to the gentleman with the naming flaming sword who stood sentinel at the rate pate there does not seem to be any foundation for this thi ides idea |