SHOULD A MAN CONFIDE HIS BUSINESS TO HIS WIFE?

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3393, 8 December 1911, Page 3

SHOULD A MAN CONFIDE HIS BUSINESS TO HIS WIFE?

A much vexed question answered by an experienced writer and deep thinker. Pause a minute and think about her reply. It depends upon tho wife. There are women who are capable of sharing responsibilities and wise in discharging them. There are other women—dear doll women-—who need to have all the difficulties of existence simplified, all the little problems of life smoothed out and solved for them by another. When they are made that way they are only delightfully decorative bits in the scheme of life. So it sometimes happens that when a man has married a girl because of the sunshine glint in her hair, or the shadowy depths in her eyes, he has not always acquired therewith tho clear brain and the steady hand that may help at the helm of his business affairs, and lie cannot now expect his v.ifa to share very much the burden of his responsibilities. But there are otehr marriages more than beauty deep. Sometimes they are even those lare ideal unions that are mentally and socially and every wav equals.

Then, it is tiie woman’s right to know and the man’s right to share with her every pulse-beat of existence—even to the annoying details of bis daily business perplexities. Always she can help him endure them. Sometimes she may help him to solve them. Wherever there is a man’s achievement- there is always in the background feminine inspiration and feminine sympathy that is the complement of his strength. Somewhere there must always lie a woman to whom lie can go and say, “I’m tired- dear;” and when she has answered, ‘‘Tell me all about it,” difficulties that have been as mountains begin t-o fade away like mist. For every man who succeeds this woman exists.

Think about it, oh, little wife, as you turn the new gold band on your finger! Hadn’t this woman hotter be you? Inevitably when site is not she must be the other woman.