HOME TRUTHS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 35, 6 March 1909, Page 3

HOME TRUTHS.

WHEN LOVELY °WOMAX WEEPS. When lovely woman weeps there is nothing more to be said-. Tears are the natural weapon of a wife. They will ijring a man to his right mind sooner than anything. However lierce the liglit, however stubborn the man's defence, nothing can resist the salt Hood when, finally, lovely woman unlocks the gates of her eyes. The finest argument, the sanest logic, might, right—one and all defences are drowned in the flow of teaS's.

Every woman knows the power of tears. £onie 'women are careiul to resort to this weapon ouly in a dire emergency; some remain cry-babies all their lives, and some carry, the practice of ervrag so far as to cry. now and again, for nothing. The uncalled-for tears serve the purpose uf making the brute realise very thoroughly what a brute he is. Every man knows that when a woman cries, all is up. Every man knows that the kisses of repentance aloije will dam a Hood of teai\s. Vet so little does human nature change that this game of has endured ever since the> Garden of Eden until to-dyy. At this very mwneml, a thousand little wives are crying; a thousand brutes are on their knees, giving hi and kissing, aud now, in this new moment, a thousand wives Imve won a thousand victories. It stauds to reason that tears involve waste —waste of energy, of vital tissue, of nerve-power, and of salt-and-water. True, they may produce kisses and loving, repentant husbands; this end, however, might be achieved by other less wasteful means. Fewer tears' would mean happier homes. This suggestion, however, is not so much a.s to say: "Ladies, pray, don't erv." Kather is it to say: "Men, pray, consider -whether yt»u could not cease continually to drive your wives to the point ot' tears." j It will be a. new idea to many husband-# that it is a good plan to nip domestic tills in tho bud'. The truly wise husband is he who gives in to his wife, at the beginning, n.ot at the end, of a discussion. Since a victory to the- wile is fore-ordained, a vast ainouut of vital tissue is to bo conserved by following this simple plan. Cloutbs of dissension should be allowed to grow no bigger than a man's hand on the far horizon. At all casts?, the threatening little cloud should be blown away before it can burst in a tearstorm. Kven if a man has to cat his w r ord>s within three seconds' of uttering tlu'iiiI—tho 1 —tho sacrifice is worth while. For, though tears may secure peace and a now happiness, yet. like dripping water from a roof, they are powerful to wear awav the foundations of a house.