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Show Fault Finding in Married Life. If a man finds that he has a wife ill adapted to wifely duties, does it follow that the best thing he can do is to blurt out. without form or ceremony, all the criticisms and corrections which may occur oc-cur to him in the many details of household house-hold life? He woulel not dare to speak with as little preface, apology or circumlocution circum-locution t his business manager, to his butcher or his baker. The laws of society so-ciety require that a man should qualify, soften and wisely time his admonitions to those he meets in the outer world, or they will "turn again and rend him." But to his own wife, in his own house and home, he can find fault without ceremony cere-mony or softening. So he can; and he can awake in the course of a year or two to find hjs wife a changed woman, and his home unendurable. He may find, too, that unceremonious fault finding is a game that two can play at, and that a woman can shoot her arrows with far more precision and skill than a man. But the fault lies not always on the side of the husband. .Quite as often is a devoted, patient, good, tempered man harassed and hunted and baited by the inconsistent fault finding of a wife whose ! principal talent seems to be in the ability abil-ity at first to discover and make manifest mani-fest the weak point in anything. We have seen the most generous, the most warm-hearted and obliging of mortals under this sort of training, make the most morose and disobliging of husbands. Sure to be found lault with, whatever they do: they have at last ceased doing. The disappointment of not pleasing they have abated by not trying to please. |