Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1882 — Married Folks Would be Happier [ARTICLE]

Married Folks Would be Happier

If home trials were never told to neighbors. If they kissed and made up after every quarrel. If household expenses were proportioned to receipts. If they tried to be agreeable as in courtship days. If each would try and be a support and comfort to each other. If each remembered the other was a human being, not an angel. If women were so kina to their husbands as they are their lovers. If fuel and provisions were laid in during the high tide of summer. If both parties remembered that they were married for worse as well as for better. If men were as thoughtful of their wives as they are of their sweethearts. If there were fewer silk and velvet street costumes and more plain, tidy house dresses. If there were fewer “ please darlings ” in public and more common manners, in private. , If wives and husbands would take some pleasure as they go along, and not degenerate into some toiling machines. Recreation is necessary to keep the heart in its place, and to get along without it is a big mistakes.— Sunday Courier.