Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1892 — Marriage Is a Failure [ARTICLE]

Marriage Is a Failure

When a wife thinks more of her relatives than of her husband. When she believes that her husband must love her whether she deserves it or not. When she stoops to her husband’s level and tries to equal him In being mean. When she fails to realize that patienoe and gentleness are more natural to her than to a man. When a wife marries for convenience, and pretends that she marries tor love. When a wife pays too much attention to her husband’s old vows and not enough to the nature of the man she married. When a wife insists that her husband shall be as good as his mother and not as his father. When a wife always sees something about other men to admire, and nothing about her husband to appreciate. When a man is patient and cringing with men and impatient with his sick children. When a man expects that a wife can buy as much tor $1 as he can with $2. When a man frets because his wife did not love him before she knew him, or when a man expects a better horn# than he provides. When a husband smacks his lips in recollection of his mother’s cooking, forgetting that his appetite was better as a boy than as a man. When a woman imagines that all the women are in love with her “plug” of a husband. * When a wife expects the fact that she is a motner to compensate for all her failures. When a man says he cannot control temper with his wife and children, ..althongh they know he controls It In ,the presence of a large muscular enemy. a man is a liar, and his wife When a man 4* liberal and fair with everyone except his wife.