WHAT A HUSBAND EXPECTS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 16 September 1913, Page 2

WHAT A HUSBAND EXPECTS

A husband looks for, and should receive, sympathy in his home. Because of the cares'of business, when he is out in the cold, striving to ea.ni a living, there are a thousand, worries and disappointments and frets of temper. He goes out all day, and fights a battle, sometimes a hand-to-hand one, to provide bread for those dependent on him, and to keep/' the home going smoothly and well. When he comes back from his work he expects a little consolation. He wants to unburden his mind, and tie Condoled with, and cheered, and encouraged. When he fin'ds no interest in his cares and troubles, only a determination to have as much money to spend as usual, no matter how and where it comes from, he finds the struggles with life considerably '-'harder than it was before, or than there is the Very faintest, need for it to be. He expects brightness. To come home tired-and worn out in mind and body, nerves overstrung, and at full tension, and then to be greeted with ill temper or with melancholy, this is generally the last straw. If.a wife wants to drive her husband to his club or to the tavern, she can't select a quicker way to do it. Men are not like women - , to whom the association of home is so strong that they cling to it, even when all that made it has gone and crumbled into dust. When'a man's home i« not what he expects it to be, he has a trick of leaving it to look after itself without more ado. And.a wife need never be surprised to find herself and the unsatisfactory home left to their own devices. Most or all—he expects love: An unloving wife can never make her husband happy. She may fulfil all her duties * toward him. There will be only a cold performance of grudging Bestowal, not the warm, unstinted giving that comes from* the heart. Love makes homes beautiful and delightful—it sweetens daily life, and helps one to endure troubles, The wife -who really loves her husband will not need to be told how to make him happy. She will give him all he wants or asks for in his home, and she will find

that he will repay her by preferring that home to any place on earth, and echoing the words of the dear old song that there (is no place like it.