| Show not so cruel 1 I would nevor never havo have boon been an old maid said a lady of 40 if I 1 had known as much twenty years ago as I 1 know now when whon I 1 was at a marriage ablo able timo time nt 0 lifo life I 1 beard heard so much about unhappy couples that I 1 was afraid to become a wife but I 1 havo have looked around in later times and I 1 have changed 1 my mind on the subject last year I 1 took up a lilt list of twenty wires wives of my acquaint acquaintance anco whom I 1 had known before their wedlock and to whom I 1 bad had spoken about thele ox in life I 1 found that fifteen of the twenty were happily married that four of them got along tolerably well with their husbands hui bands and that only one of thorn them bo bewailed walled tho the matrimonial lot tho the fifteen happy wives are women fond of their children and helpful to their husbands about tho the unhappy one of them I 1 cin can only say that sha eh j is a grumbler marriel to a grov growler and would be unhappy anyhow w and as the other four tho the fault ie Is not all on ono one side I 1 suspect that the twenty married women I 1 bave of aro are fair specimens of wives in genc general rd moat of whom find by experience that it Is mir irge rInge that m mikes ikes ll 11 worth livin As I 1 am myself the soul 0 1 ability I 1 bc be lieve tb that tt I 1 would have made a happy marriage if I 1 had not been frightened frighten ei a b the I 1 heard twenty y eare 0 s a 0 o |
