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The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)
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Publisher: Jalin Library
Pages: 222
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
SISTERLY DISCOURSE WITH JOHN'S WIFE CONCERNING
JOHN.
J
ohn is not John until he is married. He assumes the sobriquet at the altar
as truly as his bride takes the title of Mistress or Madame. Once taken,
the name is generic, inalienable and untransferable. Yet, as few men marry
until they have attained legal majority, it follows that your John-my John-
every wife's John-must have been in making for a term of years before he fell
into our hands.
Sometimes he is marred in the making.
The most loyal wife admits to her inmost self in the most confidential sea-
son of self-communion, that she could have brought up her husband better
than his mother or whatever feminine relative had the training of him suc-
ceeded in doing. An opinion which, I remark, is not shared by the relative in
question. The mother of a growing son will know how to sympathize with
her Mamma-in-law, when her own son-
-will a-wooing go, Whether his mother will or no.
3 MARION HARLAND
I am John's advocate and best friend, but I cannot withhold the admission
that he has some grave faults, and one or two incurable disabilities. Grap-
pling, forthwith, with the most obstinate of these last-I name it boldly.
John is not-he never can be-and would not be if he could-a woman. Tak-
ing into consideration the incontrovertible truth that nobody but a woman
ever understood anotherwoman-the situation is serious enough. So desper-
ate in fact, that every mother's daughter of the missionary sex is fired with
zealous desire to mend it, and chooses for a subject her own special John-in
esse or in posse.
This may sound like badinage, but it is uttered in sad earnest. The wife's
irrational longing to extract absolute sympathy of taste, opinion and feel-
ing, from her wedded lord, is a baneful growth which is as sure to spring
up about the domestic hearth as pursley-named by the Indian, the white
man's foot-to show itself about the squatter's door. Once rooted it is as
hard to eradicate as plantain and red sorrel.
I brand it as irrational, because common sense shows the extreme improb-
ability that two people-born of different stocks, and brought up in different
households-the man, sometimes, in no household at all-should each be the
exact counterpart of the other; should come together provided respectively,
with the very qualities, likes and dislikes, that the partner needs and prefers.
Add to the improbability aforesaid the inevitable variance of views upon
divers important subjects consequent upon the standpoint masculine and
the standpoint feminine, and the wonder grows-not that some marriages
are unhappy, but that a large percentage of wedded couples jog on comfort-
ably, and, if not without jar, without open scandal. That they do speaks vol-
umes for the wisdom of Him who ordained marriage as man's best estate-
and something-not volumes-perhaps, but a pamphlet or two-in behalf of
human powers of philosophical endurance.
Before going farther it would be well to look our subject in the face-inspect
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