Show Trust in Your Wife I Were men to confide more in their wives they would be better Women I have a finer and more exact sense of honor than men their ideas of right and I wrong are not perverted by motives of expediency I ex-pediency and sordid calculations are less apt to influence their judgment is I Whenever a thief or an embezzler brought to justice we generally read tha the mans wife is prostrated by the knowledge of her husbands crime This conclusively shows that she was in ignorance igno-rance of his wrongdoing and no one is more astounded by the climax than the woman whose naihe has been dishonored And it is on her the greatest blow falls the pity of the world if pity is extended to her is tempered by scorn and be she ever so innocent she never escapes a certain amount of condemnation be corpse or Eno Would Gray now a a fugitive or Ward a convict if they had confided in their wives We believe not Had Gray gone to his wife and said i have I taken t money from my corporation to speculate with but I will repay it when the market turns we think his wife would have said Put it back make restitution tell the directors and we will be just as happy without our carriage car-riage or our summer cottage A woman naturally shrinks from the thought of wrongdoing The man a selfdeludec fool easily persuades himself that the money is only a loan hfrhasa sure thing and no harm can be done by his borrow ing what he needs No such Jesuitical sophistry beguiles the wife She knows it is a theft and cannot be made to see it in any elVr Ight Nowa 1 then we hear of man failing because ut the extravagance of his wife and daughter Now andthen we hear of a man who can say in the words of Owen Meredith r When they asked me about it I told them plain Love it was that had turned my brain How should I heedwhere my hand had been When my heart was dreaming of Celestine True now and then a man steals for his Celestine but how often Woman I is societys balancewheel and the man who does not confide in his wife leads a life which cannot admit of the light of day being turned on it Washington Post |