Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1915 — A Wife’s Need [ARTICLE]

A Wife’s Need

A certain woman was restless. She was worn out, but it was not with physical Work. Her husband was wiser, perhaps, than most hisbands. He did not send her to the top of a mountain where she was the only inhabitant. He sent her to a resort where there were many new people, with new personalities and new topics of interest. She needed contact with the world more than she needed a cool climate. Frequently men who brush elbows with a dozen persons each day do not appreciate the solitude of their wives. Sometimes when a man needs r as a rest to get away from miscellaneous humanity, contact is just what is needed by his wife? Frequently even if she has enough feminine society she lacks the society of men. Perhaps her husband never really converses, or is able to converse, with her. A man hidden behind his newspaper at the breakfast table is not a creation of the comic paper; he is a too frequent fact. Too often his wife does not Interest him because the sphere which is imposed upon her is too limited. Yet she may have been so confined to her own thoughts all day that she feels she will go crazy if she does not have someone to talk sincerely with, or some other human excitement. Birds often divide the care of the young, and when the female leaves the nest it is stometlmes merely for change and rest. There are some who believe the French woman is more contented than the average woman in other countries because she has a share in the family business. She is a partner, instead of a sort of upper servant