Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 November 1888 — Ideal Husbands and Wives. [ARTICLE]

Ideal Husbands and Wives.

It may be truthfully taid tlni L less tlian one-fourth of the women who marry know’ what they are doing. They have no idea of -what their duties are, much less the r rights. About all they know is that they are getting 11 arriad. Is there any wonder that so many are disappointed and with themselves out of it V If is perfectly right that a woman should have an ideal husband, but more important that she should have a distinct notion of what constitutes an id al wife. There’s where tlie trouble li s. They all want ideal husb mils, but never seem to think that men may want ideal wives. Men imagine that a wife will make them happy, aud women think that all thev need to put an end to their troubles is to secure a husband. How sadly b >t.li are disappointed. The wife who expect \ her husband to make her happy is so edoomed to disappointment; so is the man who expects the same from his wife. We make our own happiness, and in doing so we make others hap;#y. Whenever young women begin trying so lit themselvas for wives then a newsocial era will be g n to dawn. Thera will be more happy home-, less poverty, fewer divor>es, and a better moral atmosphere. There is a great ileal i f room lor men t > improve in the same line. Comparatively few of them have definite id as iu regard to the home life they expect to live. If they do picture such a thing, they follow the outlines traced by some sentimental novelist. It is an imp msible sort of place, in which In installs an angel. Nectar takes the place of coffee, and the bread plate is filleel with lotus.— Pittsburg Dispatch.