Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1911-10-08 | Page 35 | Where a Man's Best Friend is His-Mother-in-Law

ir- ir rr A m MAr MANS MAN'S mS PS ii BlEST BEST iFS l i FRIEND IS ITS S If HIS I S 1 11 IN llA LA LAW W Y m n v. v I Ill rn u u. u OP or TT is Is known to most travelers In the tho rural districts IT of oC northern China Chino that tho local Jool magistrates are frequently called upon to adjust domestic dif It Is also known that these thelle disturbances disturbance of ot tho the peace ace rarely occur where the wife's mother 1 is I. A K a member of ot the household Why rhy do you run away wa from your I once oneo asked an unhappy Chinese husband whose wife had haled him before beCore a a. magistrate Cant you make ml her obey you ou 1 Alas las I have ha no mother law answered the man There is no one In fn my house to keep It and m my wife will In order Tho The trembling wretch assured mo me that In hi his part art artor of or tho time country nine men out of or ten are aro afraid of or their wives If It they have no mother law to protect protect protect pro pro- them thorn t tIt It Is true truo that from prehistoric times the dignity of or the tho mother has lies been regarded In China as hardly Inferior to that of oC the tho th father Among tho the rural classes It li ht customary for the tho wife's mother when mother when elie Iho Is a widow widow widow-to to assume charge chargo of oC her son laws ws w's home and as these marriages es are pro-arranged pro with little attention paid to the feelings of or the tho bride these 0 I J r r 9 s sC t C G t M t d 1 p w m claw T 1 TiVi tasT K iV O v y r young wives do not start out with that blind love lovo for their h husbands ban Is which characterizes most moat occidental occidental occidental dental wives of or a ft parallel class clans Accordingly the husband I Is apt to find rind his bride willing unwilling It If not mutinous But If f he IB is so fortunate OJ as 55 to have have V C a mother law whose own experience has bM taught tl h her r the value valoe of a wife's submission the chances ar are favorable that In time the bride who was wa- wo unwilling SlUnK will be trained to submission and end cheerful obedience Then If It she bears boars a ft eon Bon or or two which 1 I. I the great desire of at every Chinese husband both partita parties have havo a fair prospect of or serene sereno and dignified dig dignified dig domestic existence It would astonish most husbands In Europe and ana America to observe tho the severity with which a mother In tn northern China will treat her daughter If It she lacks in duty and Md respect to her husband It Is Isone Isone one of at those topsy conditions which eo so often otten to western eyes Ces gives the whole celestial empire tho the appearance of ot standing on Its HI head hend And If It the husband Is weak enough h not to stand upon his marital rights right mother law may be trusted to give him some somo wholesome discipline as ns well Itis It ItIs ItIs Is truly a land Jand where often otton a 0 mans man's best friend Is his mother in sl l D DC C r