Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1881 — Married People Would be Happier. [ARTICLE]

Married People Would be Happier.

If home trials were never told to n kissed and made up after every quarrel. If household expenses were proportioned to receipts. If they tried to he aa agreeable as in courtship days. If each would try to be a support and comfort to the other. If each remembered U>e other was a human being, not an angel. If women were as kind to their husbands as they were to their lovers. If fuel and provisions were laid In during the high tide of sumni >r work. If both parties remembered that they married for worse as well aa for better. . If men were as thoughtful for their they were for their sweethearts.

If there were fewer silks and velvet street qratumes and more plain, tidy house dreeoM. If there were fewer “please darlings,” in public, and more common manners in private. If wives and husbands would take some pleasure as they go along and not degenerate into mere toiling machines. Recreation ia necessary to keep tlie heart In its place, and to get along without it ia a big mistake. If men would remember that a woman can't be always smiling who has to cook the dinner, answer the doorbell half a dozen times, and get rid of a neighbor who has dropped in, tend to a sick baby, tie up the cut finger of a two-year-old, gather up the playthings of a four-year-old, tie up the head of a six-year-old on skates, and St an eighty ear-old ready for scliool, say nothing of sweeping, cleaning, etc. A woman with all this to contend with may claim it as a privilege to look and feel a little tired sometimes, and a word of sympathy would not be too much to expect from the man, who during the honeymoon wouldn't let her carry as much as a sunshade. — Saturday Evening Mail