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Show PLACES PATIENCE ABOVE ALL. Supreme Quality in Good Wife, According Ac-cording to This Writer. Patience is the supreme quality of a good wife. When humanity shall have .evolved a perfect race of men there will be less need of this virtue in women. Now it is chief of the indispensable qualities. For the twentieth century wife must inevitably learn that she has married an imperfect creature many degrees below the god of her girlish fancy. And for the facing of this unwelcome fact she requires abundant patience. Woman's most blessed work in the world is the long, long task of fostering foster-ing the blossoms and ripening the fruit of character in the young. For this there is need of a patience half divine. "You are growing to have the look in your face that mother has. You don't look like us boys any more," said a boy to his sister. That new look which the" boy noted could not name was patience. pa-tience. There is scarcely a wifely virtue vir-tue but by over indulgence may become be-come a defect. Yet no wife has ever had too large a stock of patience. The patient wife forgives her husband's ill-humors. ill-humors. She discounts his failures and exaggerates his successes. Chicago American. |