Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1890 — He Had to Be Amused. [ARTICLE]

He Had to Be Amused.

One rainy day at a summer resort one of the few women whoso husband shared her vacation asked in a discouraged tone: “What can be done to keep a man amiable in such weather?” Tho reply came from another wife: “Why should more be done for a man than for a woman? Nobody is longing for a wet day.” Further conversation led to tho conjecture that the anxious woman’s lord was so cross and unreasonable that she felt responsib.e even for the weather. Doubtless she was used t > his ill-humor. At home probably the children were sent to bed or kept quiet when he came in, unless, perMhps, he chose to play with them so boisterously for half an hour that half a day of patience or discipline was required to counteract the effect of such unwonted excitement. This, doubtless, is an exceptional case; but it proves my point and also a Turkish proverb, that “The house rests not on the earth, but on tho wife.” Among the other visitors at this hotel was an invalid with a timid little daughter. One morning the child whispered a “secret” into her mother’s ear. She had invited all the children to a 4 o’clock tea for that afternoon. It was a formidable piece of news; for “the children” meant an army of hungry mouths to fill, and resources were few. However, without a word of reproach or a gesture of impatience, the mother sweetly accepted and discharged her child’s obligation, whose unalloyed happiness must have been ample compensation for all the trouble, if, indeed, she felt it such. To the observers it was a curious evidence of entire confidence between mother and child, which promised much for their future happiness.