Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1917 — ONE Gin THAT MONEY WILL NOT BOY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ONE Gin THAT MONEY WILL NOT BOY

A very neglectful husband recently asked his wife what kind of a present

she wotfld like him to buy her. She did not know what to make of the suggestion; he had grown so cold and brusque of late y9a rs. Many a Christmas had gone by and he had not even considered her feelings sufficiently to put a stick of candy or a postage stamp in the stocking which she never failed to hang up. The empty stocking did not seem to be

a reproach to him. He neither saw nor heeded her remarks concerning it. No wonder she gasped when he asked her to name a gift she. would like. “One that would not be costly," she added; “yet I do not .know of any place where it could be bought!” She went up to him quietly and laid her arms about his neck. “The most precious gift you could bestow upon me would be just a little love, tenderness and affection, such as you used to show me in our courting days.” She bravely kept back the tears .that tried

By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY.

to. force themselves to her eyes. All ijf a moment the busy business man saw he hqd been remiss. “It’s a bargain!” he said huskily, returning her caress. “Fronrthls time you shall have a full measure of all the love you crave.” » One little heart touch of this kind will bring even the most boorish husband to his senses. The trouble is that most wives are too proud to sue for the love which they believe should be theirs without having to ask for it. Many husbands mean well, but they forget that the love which is as free as air, yet which money cannot buy, is worth more to a loving wife than diamonds or rubles. A husband cannot well put love into a wife’s stocking, yet his affection should prompt him to bring her some remembrance, be it little, that she may know he was thinking of her and the desire was in his heart to make her happy r .With all a man’s wealth, he should know fuir well that it is impossible to buy the true love of a youthful heart, if his heart has become cold in the passing years. The hearts of the children one cherishes cannot be bound to parents by the almighty dollar. Love never can be weighed against dollars and cents, social position or aught else. The poor man is rich, if there’s some one who has given him a wealth of love.» (Copyright, 1917.)