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Love, sense and patience. Those are the three
important elements necessary to happiness in marriage.
Much has been said and written of the woman
who keeps her little worries and troubles of the kitchen
and nursery to entertain her husband with when he
returns home after business hours.
She has been chided and urged to remember how
much her husband needs her cheerful face to greet
him at home and her bright, hopeful conversation to
drive away the load of cares which beset his weary
mind.
All this is very true. There are always women
who forget that man's business life is not one perpetual fete, and that his home is frequently the only
place to which he can turn for real rest and peace of
mind.
But observation impresses upon my mind the conviction that very few business men leave their office
and shop worries and anxieties behind them when
they enter the domestic door and eventide.
They carry them into the home and expect the
wife to be entertained with them. If she endeavors
to change the subject they feel that she is not interested
in their affairs, and that she is heartless and indifferent.
If they do not talk their worries at home, they
act them, which is quite as bad, if not worse.
I have seen a happy, optimistic, loving woman's
face, beaming with pleasure at the sound of her husband's latchkey in the door, changed to sadness and
depression in half an hour by the gloom and nervousness of a really kind-hearted man, who had not the
forethought or self-control to throw his business
troubles off before entering his home.
Even if a man is so tired and worn by a swarm of
