Show finds moral in life of disraeli j good wife she who mak makes es husband happy says woman writer according to contemporary ion the wife of disraeli prime min ister of england was ignorant eriv olous tasteless to her brilliant distinguished d husband she was everything a wife should be the object of his undying devotion when they married he was thirty three she forty five his personal ity had everything hers nothing to society ther the r marriage was ridle ulous to disraeli it was nas a par adise of adomat on a refuge of last ing tenderness I 1 where then Is the catch or the connection it appears that though ignorant mrs disraeli had good sense which the prime minister found more corn com forting than the wit of the brilliant women he knew mary alary anne used her good sense te to understand her husband and understanding him she devoted herself to his happiness which was her s ingle purpose in life her outrageous taste in dress might e expose x pose them both to ridicule in the aristocratic circles in which they moved her other shortcomings might embarrass the prime minister but all that was unimportant in the face of 0 an understanding and devotion which a man with disraeli 3 qualities of heart and mind could not fall to appreciate and to respond to mary anne knew what was good for her dizzy she relaxed him and she fortified him for his great task she was good for him and she made him young distinguished love her commonplace and middle aged as she was so that after her death no one could take talie her place and for the rest of his life his note paper was edged in black reflecting on the foregoing a worn wom an writer whose views on life are universally respected makes the fol lawi lowing n 9 ca comment in ment I 1 thought of alary mary anne when a woman oman I 1 knew complained of the girl her son married in her ion ton the girl s upbringing t and training were the last in the world to make her a good wife and her attitude on life Is all wrong in these times of stress it seems she la Is easygoing frivolous even extravagant extra and ana tt ti e joke of it says her mother inlaw in law Is that her husband regards her as per feet she gets appreciation that Is given to few good wives arbitrarily I 1 im in afraid I 1 turned upon this woman and said your son 1 has a good wife if she makes him f i happy ashes good f f C bell syndicate service |