Democratic Sentinel, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1886 — Husband and Wife. [ARTICLE]

Husband and Wife.

A man has an eye for beauty in his wife. He notices the soft wave of her hair and fit of her gown with a sort of pleasurable pride, even after time and trials have dimmed the glamour of first love. The successful wife must represent to her husband all the virtues; must be sympathetic, and at the same time sensible. She must be bright, entertaining, and agreeable at home as well as abroad, and she must know how to preserve silence when it is desirable to hold her tongue, even though she is ready to burst with indignation. If she does not possess these qualities let her cultivate them most assidulously. And there is no trait that is such a powerful factor in household harmony as assimilat on—to become one in thought and purpose, to have kindred tastes and kindred wishes. The theory of the affinity of opposites was hopelessly explodejl long ago. The picture of a petite blonde Desdemona clinging to a swarthy Othello is very pretty, but if Othello's mind is out of tune with Desdemona, the affinity cannot exist. — Des Moines Mail.