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Show )oroikyDix Talks WHAT IS YOUR WIFE WORTH? tafrTHY PIX the Wm-lil's Hulii i 1 Woman Writer , cond-hand Ford. tr-'ih J' ' '"" bar' to:': TL it inclined to think ti coi du ' r- fa ure thrown in k man make and ltomobllc cats Itj bough she had as a, : ) 'mil . ii un-m.k un-m.k fc'r f't 1 ' Ib r a in ihoes Id the ! . :, .i lli C ' ; n 'J pais drink proh of the gasollno that i . U wet and clean, and ' -: !- i. r.nd k'-'-I' terrioc. The ml islon tk j to put a mortgage r cottage. t & comfort, and stay, lii (urnnioni l" eourt B(.' i food wife ic nbovej ; if an automobile la Bom than you ca a la true mis no )oy rldi I n- i mi i .. i n fct Etny n.f-n prefer an Iki vltc and remain sln-tto sln-tto they may he.', i -!. r-j model of a car with Pi i pertaining then to, I ill; pad of headinc into It 'ia It i n -,tf. r of tu'e Ti'i.l. Vli;it , y,.,u tad? How much is i ':' F(a tldnk of tho1 ,J " In 1 mtlj mi isun Vi- "1ft which en- !i ' : . an ) nan after ho gets J Wd, the romantic nis. I1 loyalty of p. wife Mmi clin? to u man I1" reports, and '" him when all the I hi nee of the world turns away from him. Wo thin.: of the devotion of a wife that makes a woman toll over waah-tuhs. waah-tuhs. and cooking stoves, and slave over sewing machines, and make of herself a living sacrifice for her husband's hus-band's comfort asking no reward except ex-cept a kindly word, now and then and the knowledge that bhe is boosting boost-ing him up the ladder of. success. We think of the patience of wives that enables them to, put up with grouchy and surly husbands, and for-give for-give seventy times seven, slights audi Indifferences, and actual unfaithful-j ness, and still love the men in whom the balance of the world finds nothing noth-ing lovely. So when we try to measure tho alue of the love of a good wife we know that it is beyond price, and that not all the money in all the world could pay for it lint u wife has an actual and intrinsic intrin-sic value, aside from her sentimental value It is not without reason that th " most successful men in the world have nearly all been married men, andj thai astUt employers prefer benedicts to bachelors. Very f-w men ever pave any money before they get married, and almost every man who has risen from poverty to riches bears testimony to the fact that he Is really wife made. It was the woman behind the door who turnedt !u trick in his fortunes A wife is n,ot only a valuable asset as-set to a man. but her worth Is in direct ratio to his affection for her. If he loves her very much, Indeed, so much that he Is determined to dress her In silk attire, and hang her with jewels, and jive her a fine house to live in. and a limousine to "ldc in, then she is the powerthat raise.- every ability he has to the nth iow.r. She is energy, she is ambition, sh- is everything that sharpens a man's wits, and puts zeal In his soul, and makes him a go-get-ter. In olden times, men went out and nsktd thi ir llVOS doing deeds of valor for their lady loves. In these days, tho man who loves his wife hustles jOut. and makes money for her, which in. iy not sound as romantic, but it Is the manifestation of the same spirit I Fx en the women who are not good wives, the women who are selfish, and extravagant, are greater assets than liabilities to their husbands Many a man who would himself have leen content with Bmall things has done great things because he was forced Into In-to high speed to satisfy his wife's ln- satiable demands upon him There arc ambitious women who hae been worth ambassadorships, and even the presidential chair to their husbands wives who have cashed In their popularity in big practices to doctor husbands, worn, n ho' i r it has been a call to a fashionable church I to their husbands; women who have 'meant the Joy of living to th-ir hus-I hus-I bands. What Is your wife's value to you. Mr Husband'. Figure It out to yourself. I But be sure of this Your Lizzie is 'worth more than a Tin Lizzie. It is Ithe m'ii with pood wives, and not the men with fast automobiles who get th( i e. |