Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1881 — A Husband’s Love. [ARTICLE]

A Husband’s Love.

It is easy enough to win a husband. Blost any attractive little dumpling with a bright eye and coaxing voice can gather in a noble husband, but it is pretty difficult to retain him. Noble husbands are thicker than hair on a dog, but the grand difficulty is to draw chit their true nobility and secure it at borne. If the wife only understands her business slie can introduce the soothing racket in her new field of operations aud walk away with the whole business. Blost men like to be loved and soothed. There is something in the man’s great, rough, earnest nature that can be won quicker and easier with gentleness aud pie than by the logic of the broomhandle and a bilious course of reasoning with bread-and-milk diet. We have seen a girl who understood her business take areformed road agent by the nose, so to speak, and lead him through life in such a way that he wouldn’t know but that lie was boss of the ranch. So perfect was the delusion, that when she asked him to bring in a scuttle of coal, or get up in liis night-shirt and kill a burglar, that he knew was nothing but a bob-tailed cow four blocks away, he always went, and ho felt as though he counted it a mark of special favor that a poor unworthy worm of the dust, like him, should be sought out and delegated to go and elia-e a lame cow across nine vacant lots with an old barrel stave, aud clothed in nothing but a little brief authority and a knit undershirt. We cannot exactly describe this magic Cower of a devoted wife over her lmsand, and we do not intend to try it. It is an unseen motive, a nameless leverage that makes the husband get up in tne dead hour of the night and set the pancake batter near the parlor stove. A man need not think that because he gets up and looks for burglars in the night and is otherwise obedient, it is because he has no backbone. It is simply because he is the husband of a woman of whom he ought to be proud.— Boomerang.