Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1898 — A WORD WITH HUSBANDS. [ARTICLE]

A WORD WITH HUSBANDS.

Give Yoor Wife a Little Praise and See How It Works. “If husbands only knew, or, If knowing, only cared, how very much'their words and manners affect the temperature of the home world, they would never, by word or deed, leave it enshrouded in gloom,” argues Mrs. A. M. Marriott, in Woman’s Home Companion. “To most wives the husband is the sun around which every thought revolves. There is scarcely an instant in which his presence is not felt as she goes about her work, or even when at rest. If she is preparing the meals, the way John likes this or that, or some remark he has made about some article of food is recalled to mind; if she looks about her she sees his hats and coats hanging pn the hooks, and the hats invariably wear the same expression John’s face wore when he left in the morning; a jolly, good-humored look, if he went away pleasant; if angry, a gruff, defiant attend-to-your-own-busi-ness air takes the place of the so lately gentle pliable shapes in felt, and fairly bristle with wrath over some trifle, but still enough to obscure the sun in the little world for many a weary day, perchance, ere it is seemingly forgotten. “There is no true woman but will repay her husband over and over again for kind, thoughtful treatment. He is ready to call her childish, and she may seem so to him; but one thing Is sure —a woman never forgets. All little deeds of love or thoughtfulness sown by his hand yield a certain and abundant harvest. She may love her home better than any other spot on earth, yet she sometimes gets so weary of the daily routine of never-ending duties that fall to her lot that she cannot help an occasional feeling of envy for those Avho have more time for recreation, for going abroad, for all the little things dear to the heart of every woman, but which the stern hand of duty most effectually debars her from enjoying. Still, for all that, she would not for the whole world exchange places, even if she could, Avith any other woman, leaving home and John—dear old John—as the price of her freedom from care. * * * If your Avife has been a faithful and true Avife to you, tell her so. Do not think it lowers your manliness any to let her know that she still has a place iu your affections. She has toiled early and late for you and your children, through sickness and health, and self-denial has grown to be her motto. It takes but little from her loved ones to make her happy, so do not begrudge her a Avord of praise noAV and then as her just reward, and of far more value to her starving heart than gold. There are some things which money can never buy, and Avounds Avhich it cannot heal; but love levels all obstacles, overcomes all difficulties, and immeasurably sweetens life.”