STRAY NOTES.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 648, 8 July 1921, Page 7

STRAY NOTES.

(By “Don Quixote.”)

Husbands are the things every girl wants until she gets one. Yes } they are funny things and take a lot of managing, the advice given by one old lady of much experience was “Feed the brutes,” and there Is such a lot of truth in that caustic remark, If “wifey” wants a new hat or a pair of shoes, it is a good time to introduce the subject when “hubby” is in his slippers in front of a nice fire and after a good dinner.

They run in types, too. Quite low down in the scale in the drunken biute, who makes life a hell on earth for the woman who took him for “better or .worse” and found it only for worse. There are not very many of this kind, for which let us be very thankful.

Then there is the snapper or growler. He is an ill-mannered cur j nothing pleases him; let his wife toil fiom morning till night,, her , lord and master will never be satisfied. I knew a man once who had a mania for tea at all! sorts of unholy hours. He would wake the wife of his bosomy,at one p’cloclf on a cold winter’s morning with the words: “ I think I could take a cup of tea, Alice,” and she, poor fool, would huddle on a dressing gown and make it for him. On one occasion she had collected a nice lot of dry chips to use for these nocturnal peregrinations, consequently in a very few minutes she had a cup of the steaming beverage ready for him ? and as she had been so quick he decided the kettle hadn’t boiled and insisted on her , doing it all over again, and she, poor thing, having burnt all her dry chips, was hours and hours getting another boil from the reluctant kettle and when she did bring it in got severely reprimanded for waking him cut of the first sleep he had had for hi on ths.

And then there is the “bear with the sore head.” He says very little indeed, to his wife’s harmless prattle, He often returns nothing but a grunt, he is not very companionable and, his wife often thinks life would be better without him.

Some women manage to provide themselves with jealous and woe betide them fi they receive the slightest ) attention from any strange male. I know of one man who took his young and pretty wife, to the theatre and got .it into his head that a fellow w ? as looking at her through a pair of opera glasses. Nothing would induce him to believe it was hot her fault, she must have something, and in next to no time she found herself dragged off home.

Then there is the poqr fool of a man that makes a slave of himself to his wife’s whims and fancies. She has a good time alright, and is undoubtedly a very lucky woman, but he says good bye to happiness and peace and all that makes life worth living.

Arid the man who is wedded to his money bags, in the | race, for gold, home and love and wife and children take a very second place. The rise and fall of stocks and shares is of more interest ,to him j than any of the abj>ve. Golden sovereigns shine with an allure more potent than them

! ail.' Well the time will come when j his stiffened-'fingers will not close i on one.' the gold he has amassed with

, so pinch, care and forethought will fce squandered by his heirs, and nought remains of his life’s great work.

But there are many and great exceptions. There are' husbands who

e considerate and just, who are

ji chums in the real and true sense of j khe >vord Life with them is worth j the living*, when sorrow comes and

j come it must "into each life some ! rain must fall, some days he dark and i dreary ’’ then they are sympathetic, j and their arms “are a pleasant rej fugc in time of trouble/’ So they | and their partners drift down the j stream of life, together in storm and ! sunshine, their mutual love the bea- : con that guides them on their way. | They are an example to all of what ! a perfect earthly love can be. their only dread their parting, their great- | est hope that they may go together.