A HUSBAND'S LOVE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16020, 11 September 1915, Page 6 (Supplement)

A HUSBAND'S LOVE.

Every woman believes in her innermost heart that her ; presence will be sufficient to repay her husband for the giving up of all that made life gay before he married her that once the* wedding vows are spoken, he will longer sigh lor ■ his club, or seek the society of the companions of his bachelorhood; and that he will be happy to live a tete-a-tete existence with her for the rest of his life. 1■ :— -V: The quiet young girl, with a limited outlook of the • world, * thinks that her husband will be quite; satisfied ; to * settle down to this humdrum life; content to have tlie whole of his future bounded.by the four walls of'his house; his evenings filled with stories 'of the household's doings during the. day. . "• . The young husband, sincerely in love with his bride, is, perhaps, satisfied for some time, then the deadly monotony of the home life oppresses him. He becomes restless, and seeks some excuse.; for spending an hour or two awajj from home. The wife is conscious, perhaps, of a thange of relations between them, but it is only ■*» vague consciusness,' hardly defined at first; - later ,it resolves itself Into resentment at her. lonely evenings, while her husband is meeting. a " man of business" at the; club. Not for a moment - does she imagine that the remedy lie 3 in her own hands. Her husbandries, wearied of the sweet sameness of his v home, and it is dangerous for a ■ wife's happiness when a husband's interest begins to flag. ;. '. It; would be ' difficult to state exactly what a man requires in a wife; but it is certain that she should be at once the ! loving companion, and the - wisest confiI dante. A husband wants a woman with'a gay smile on her lips; tears are his abomination; his wife must always be ready to see the bright, = happy side -of; life. Then she must be prepared'to listen and:, help him in ; his * perplexities; to . put the matter in a nutshell, a wife must be able to rise to every ; occasion. : A' woman can never, be sure "of a man's love. If she grows haH,. cold; and cynical after marriage," she can *onlv blame | herself for the • corresponding change in | the man she has married. No woman | can afford; to%allow this state of things ; *°. exist;.her busbahd's love is of the I most vital importance; nob onlv her own welfare, but the well-being of her children is at stake. _■■•*'■ •- , No woman need.worry over tbe possibility of her husband's love growing less after marriage she hastolytorretam the happy ways that charmed during the days of courtship, and instead $>i decreasing, his affection will deeneh with the. passing of. years. .■«»..."',/, :*S. 'T '"