Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 142, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1910 — LOVE SINKS TO THE STOMACH. [ARTICLE]

LOVE SINKS TO THE STOMACH.

Danish Wife Learna Pinochle and In a Good Entertainer. “After marriage love sinks to the stomach. ’there is no doubt of it, my friend. The old adage is right.” Here is a suffragist, a good suffragist, from Denmark, who has seen life and who knows. * "Three husbands have I had,” says she, according to the New York Evening Sun, “and of what I speak I am certain. My first was an Englishman —a race reputed difficult; my second was a Dutchman out of Holland, a good man, though Dutch; my third is a German, an ‘echt Deutscher.’ Yet' from all these three have I received never anything but respect; and for why? I have known my business as a wife. That is it in a fistful, yes. After marriage love sinhs to the stomach.” Mme. Volkman, the president of the Independent Woman’s Suffrage Club in Harlem, speaks with the conviction and authority of experience. “Let us come back to that duty of a wife. Evening comes. The good wife prepares for her husband an excellent repast, adorns herself within keeping of his means and from 6 to 10 o’clock of an evening is she her husband’s company. "Pinochle she must learn, also dominoes. If she has no taste for these things that does not signify. It is her duty. A man will stay in his home quite content evening after evening so that he can put between his teeth a good pipe and sit down at ease to pinochle. “I know what I say. Three husbands have I had and with each one it was the same. Now once a week there comes to my home a small club of my husband’s. Three friends and pinochle that makes for him his pleasure. That is my husband’s one outside diversion. Ten cents or so changes hands for a pastime and for one evening I am relieved. "Perhaps you ask: Is it not hard for an active woman of brains night after night to sit opposite her man and to play at pinochle? That is neither here nor there, my friend. Some sacrifice is necessary to all success. Only from a contented man will a wife get all what for she ask's. Only from many contented men will many wives receive that woman’s suffrage.”