Show 1 i Wife vs he heA A Y BY y DOROTHY O T DIX DIX A YOUNG YOU woman tells me this tale of woe She Is married to a Rood good man with whom she t is is much in love lo and who loves lo her The They are poor people but the husband hus and Is a hard working in in ambitious young oung fellow and the wife is ig a thrifty capable a r woman who keeps the home hume as n neat nea t as aEl a n. pin and manages their theIL finances r wonderfully r There is hut but one ono thorn In this do Eden Before he was nn 1 the man nian had insured his life for 4 a thousand dollars dollar for his mothers mother's benefit and he refuses to make ove overs orel this policy to his wife on the ground that his mother Is an old worn woman an and that if he should die he wants ants to b be sure that she he will not be left d deg tute tute This Infuriates the wife nho hf 1 thinks that her hU husband band shows a a. alack lack of affection in not considering that if iC he were to die that she he also would be left without any monc money So bitter has the wife become on this subject that she threatens threaten to 0 leave her husband for tor the iJ shadow V of oC the In insurance urance policy hu J become a black cloud that has blotted out all of her ha happiness pi ess p This woman wants to know what I would do about thi this case Oh as for forme forme forme 1 me I should hould like to knock all three of these thes obstinate pig heads together 1 for letting such a a. silly thing ruin rula their lives JIves For the of oC a thousand dollars they are as sacrificing all of or the jo Joy y of or home and I Ilove love that might be he theirs Believe me me it Isn't worth It If It I were the wife I should consider consider con con- t sider shIel myself a a. lucky woman to be 11 married to a man who had enough gratitude and appreciation in his soul to want to safeguard the old ag age of or the thc mother who went clown down Into the shadow of the grave grate to bear him who toiled and sacrificed to rear him who watched b by his bed when he ho was wag sick and went without necessities that he might have luxuries TherA Ther is no nobler sentiment on earth than filial love Jove and the tho man who honors his mother is a a. mighty might safe le man to tie to He Is the kind of a man who also honors and protects his wife wile and is faithful and loyal Joal to her If It I were the mother in this case and nd perceived that in my greedy reedy avaricious avaricious cious clous law in was so eager cager for a a. poor paltry miserable thousand dollar insurance policy that policy that would ha have hato to come to her almost with her husbands husband's hood upon that it it that sh shwas she was willing to break up his home and make male him miserable to get it I should give It up to her without a single protest My y sons son's happiness and peace would be more to me than anything else Inthe in inthe inthe the world and I 1 would cheerfully go into an old ladies ladies' asylum rather than wreck his home I Of or course courso the real animus of or this famil family quarrel is probably not co so 0 J j much the mon money as it is the outcrop- outcrop n or between f fa ping plug of the eternal jealousy jealous 1 a mans man's wife wiCe and his mother and that Is the most common as well as the the- most pathetic tragedy In lh the world because it is so 50 useless A l woman knows that there i Is no conflict between the love IC she bears beau her mother and that she bears her husband because they are not of the tho same kind She can love each one devotedly without taking one iota from the other but she never never realizes that her hot husbands husband's feelings are controlled controlled con con- trolled b by the same natural law and that the better he loves his mother the more tender tender he is sure to be bo to hi his wife But if it a man had only one loaf of or bread and both his wife wile and mother mothe were hungry I should say that hi his duty was to feed teed the tho feeble old woman woman woman wom wom- an first first because she was not able to work while the young oung and strong woman was All such discussions are Idle b but t tit it is a a. curious thing that a man mans s wife wiCe and nd mother the mother the two women who love Jove o c him aim best on earth and should his happi happiness be willing to do most for r ness ness are are generally the on ones 3 that t silly nb male make him wretched b by their jealousies of each other other And it s a 3 whether its it's a wife's wiCe's love o love Jove poor o mothers mother's love Jove that isn't willing willingto or a to o make malc the sacrifice of oC the Joy of or a a. for tor the sake Mke of oC the family Camil quarrel Is who t unfortunate working hard man tho the two wom woo women women drying trying to do his dut duty by nearest to him en who are t I |