Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1917 — HOW HE HAS TAMED HIS WIFE [ARTICLE]

HOW HE HAS TAMED HIS WIFE

One Undeserving Husband Demonstrates the Value of Blarney’ in Domestic Life. Uncle Green’s wife has never said a cross word to him. She bus plenty of fight in her, and he does enough |_o make her kill him, but she never abuses him. When he reaches home, after spending her last dollar on his friends, writes Claude Callan In the Fort Worth Star Telegraph, he says: “After what I have done you shouldn’t have let, me come into the house. Here lam married to rhe best woman in the world, and then I go and act like a dog. You _wark_likc_a_ slave and then I go act this way. It Is a pity that such a woman couldn’t have got a man worthy of her. The way I have acted ever since we married, and the way you have worked and Worried, it is a wonder you don’t look older than your grandmrrthen but In spite of it a* you have kept your youth, and here you are looking Just as young as you did twenty years ago. I don’t want you to give me any supper. It will be more -than -I doserve if you’ll let me go to sleep Jiungry on the back porch. I’ll declare. Maggie— Is that you; Maggie? You~are looking so young that I couldn't believe my eyes. And, Maggie, while I don't ask it, if you want to give me a little sip of tea, it will help me wonderfully. But I know I don’t deserve it any more than I deserve such a good wife.” Then she says to him: “You have your faults. I guess, but you are far ahead of the average husband for all that, and now you sit here and warm yourself go<)d while I go heat 'up the supper. We didn’t have anything but bread and tea tonight, but if you think you’d like it, I’ll broil you a piece of bacon.”