Show TH THE GREAT I II DISCOVERY OF Off A I TEAMSTER I IBY BY DOROTHY DIX OT long ago ago I wrote a little artiCle article arti arti- N NOT cle in which I expressed the thc opinion that love and appreciation tion were the tho great gleat and only solvents for tor all alt the domestic misery miser about us I said bald that I thou thought ht that all that was needed to streak the drab and drear matrimonial horizon with gold and purple was Just for tor husbands and wives to have some sign made to them that all their sacrifices and labor were not In vain I said that I was convinced that the disgruntled and antI disillusioned men mail that wo we s saw w all about us would find jo Joy and not weariness in their dally daily toll to support their tam families Illes If It only their wives and antI children would hurl afew a afew few tew bouquets at father and Od nd husband while he was still alive instead of or waiting waiting- to lay all of ot their flowers lowers on his gravo grave I said that it was one thing to bend every energy to keep a wife soft sott and warm who told lold a man every da day of or his life lite that ho was the finest and most admirable admirable ad ad- mirable husband on earth and she thou thought ht herself herselt the luckiest woman Inthe Inthe in inthe the world to have gotten him and it Wa was quite another pair of or sleeves for tor a aman aman aman man who took all of ot his work and worry worry wor wor- r ry and sacrifices for tor granted and with thank ou and who whined n nover nver a you and antI complained because ho he didn't make more money mone and antI couldn't give her hor the clothes and the Jewels and antI the automobiles automobiles automo automo- biles blies that richer women omen had t r ii 11 e. e T nd fht Of or J. J I U LI u. u the morbid unhappy dissatisfied that we knew would find home making the most Interesting and thrilling oc oc- In the world instead of ot the thc dreariest and antI dullest business extant U ii only their husbands had the human Intelligence to realize how disheartenIng dishearten dishearten- lug Ing It is to labor for tor a boss bOBS who always bats you ou when you OU make a a. mistake and never praises you OU for tor a I. I triumph The Reason Why I 1 said that women found marriage a n failure because their husbands did not think it worth wh while Ie to pay them compliments com Coni- or to tell them that they loved them or that they over eyer perceived that their wives were bearing burdens cheerfully under which a a. hero might b bI have fainted tainted and fallen I said that thal It was one thing for tor a woman to slave and work eighteen hours a a. da day for tor liar her to wear shabby clothes and live JIve In a cheap little home for tor a a. man who told her over every day how howIt It hurt him that he could not give her hot every pretty Jewel he saw and dress her like a princess and save her dear hands from an any labor and it w wa wast another another another an an- other thing to b bo be poor and antI shabby and hard for tor the sake saito of oC a man man who grunted and grumbled every time lime ho lie was asked for tor a penny and who never nevor noticed that his wife wa was offering up her bel youth and beauty as a sacrifice before him In a 8 word my contention was that It the tho hardships of ot married life that men and women resent It is the tho fact I that husbands end and wives do not appreciate elate the sacrifices that arc made for them and anti that it i is only love love love-love love that j expresses ItseLf ij In words anti and deeds deeds- that robs roba these sacrifices of ot their bitterness bitterness bitterness bit bit- and antI makes them worth while It I 1 always pleasant to have our theories confirmed by actual experience and so I am am going to quote a a part of or a aletter letter that I have havo Just received bearIng bearing bear- bear Ing upon this article to which I have referred The letter is 15 from a poor woman who works in a muslin underwear factory whore where she runs a power machine for tor fifty long hours a week for tor the wage of ot 58 8 Married a Teamster She Sho fell teU in love 10 ovo with a splendid young tell fellow ow a teamster who sho gets 10 a week weak and they got married Having Havinga a lot of ot common sense the girl did lid not give she up her place at the factory when she married but continued to work and the two of or th them m are arc boarding in a comfortable place and saving every ovary cent possible of their combined earnings to start a little home as they did not want to begin housekeeping overwhelmed with debt to the tho instalment furniture In n nil n ha t been abi able to ogi give her er nothing h g-b g but t. t I love and who still has to slave over O her sewing sewing sew sew- ing machine writes mo me this Wo We e have ha been married over oer a year now and wo we have never had hall a cross crossL crossI crossword L I word worl and I did not know that any one ono In this world could be so happy as I am We Wo have nothing that rich people have hae but m my husband docs does not go IO to saloons saloons' lor places of that sort and he never goes out without malie melIe melie me ma lie makes lOakes very little mone money but he gives me mo every cent he be gets lie cant can't give me fine tine clothes but ho loves me inc with a love that few tew men menever menever menever ever give a n woman Every da day he lie tells mc me that lie he never had an anything but me mc and antI that I am the best thing that God ever e gave him livery Every night when we va come home homo from our work worle he l kisses my hands hantIs that have havu tolled toiled so hard all da day Do UDo you ou think that I mind working for tor a man like Uke that Do yoU vou t think that It hurts me that he can cant can't t give me fine tine cioth clothes s when he gives me a lovo love JIke that No a a. thousand times no riO His love makes everything worth worthwhile while This is a bona bonn fid fide letter In it the writer says that her husband wa was left nn an orphan when a little child and that he be never had hatI any opportunity to get set getan getan an education or even learn a trade trado Perhaps ho is ignorant in books but buthe ho he had the supreme wisdom to solve the great reat matrimonial problem that has stumped tho the wisest philosophers and sociologists when he kissed the tho work hardened hands of ot his wife wIre That kl kiss s made her willing to work them to th the bone tot lot him And Ild th tho I i same thinK thing would hare have the sam lIam effect on any other living woman Let Lot all aU the unhappily married follow tollow the example of ot this couple for couple for tor It its ita and only love that makes make tho the domestic wheel go round without break breaking ing |