Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1917 — Wives Who Bear Too Heavy a Load [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Wives Who Bear Too Heavy a Load

jl will be quiet and talk with you, ' And reason why you are wrong. /You wanted my love—is that much true?, And so I did love—so I dq; What has come of it all along? Men who have been the most ardent lovers are sometimes the first to for-

get to keep up their attentions after They know they have secured the treasure and what’s the use of bothering any Iff © r e concerning it? The girl whom such a man was wont to devise no end jpf pleasure for, taking ffer to all places of amusement, is after wedlock transferred to the kitchen. No matter how prosperous he grows, he

doesn’t consider that he should lift the burden of work from her* shoulders. Most young wives start in with a tight heart and joy for housekeeping. But the treadmill’of work which has no change shifting through it makes even a sunny nature despondent As long as a man has his good meals cpoked well, his home neat and clean, he is content to let it go at that. He sees the roses die out of his good wife’s cheeks. Her light step is slower. It rests with him more than he is iware whether in time the load becomes too heavy for her to bear or if he manfully shifts the burden from

By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY.

her shoulders to his. It doesn’t always require bringing in someone to do the work. There are other means to lighten the load. No matter how much he may appreciate home cooking, he should be wise enough to Insist that she shall accompany him out for a dinner occasionally oh Sunday. , The -restaurant to which he takes her may not be an expensive one. But the change of food and surroundings would do her a world of good. How delighted the overworked housewife is to hear her husband say: “Let me take a hand in helping you clear away the lunch dishes, that we majc-go-out for a walk this bright Sunday afternoon." With a helping hand, how quickly the work is finished. She is encouraged to don her Sunday clothes, primping a bit just as she used to do when she was a single girl waiting the coming of her beau. A husband should see to it that the evenings do not hang unpleasantly. There are old friends to call on, a lecture or movie to while away dull care. Just because she Is married, he shouldn’t suppose that she has lost her enthusiasm to go to a dance now and then. She may not care to trip the light fantastic toe, as she used to in other days, but pleasant memories eome to her as she looks on. It Is every husband’s duty to make his wife’s life happy. This she cannot -be if she has no pleasures. She is glad to save for him; make a contented home, do everything to further his interest. Why shouldn’t he try to make her burdens as light as he can? Her happiness should be his happiness. (Copyright, ( 1917.)