SHOULD HE MARRY?
The Man—
Who goes home to grumble and growl;
Who thinks he can keep house much better than his wife;
Who cannot remember his wife’s birthday nor the anniversary of their marriage;
Who believes that no one below the status of an angel should be his helpmate;
Who decides his wife is “fixed” for the season if she has one new gown;
Who imagines a woman’s bonnet should cost about $1.95;
Who fancies that his wife exists for the comfort and convenience of his mother and sisters;
Who provides himself with a family and trusts in providence to produce a home and something to eat;
Who labors under the delusion that his wife’s money belongs to him;
Who advises his sick wife to be up and doing and she will feel ever so much better;
Who doesn’t know what a woman wants with ready cash when she has credit at a dry-goods store;
Who forgets his manners as soon as he steps across his own threshold;
Who thinks a dining-room carpet should last a lifetime;
Who constantly talks about supporting a wife, when she is working fourteen hours a day, including Sunday;
Who declares it all nonsense for a woman to want a ten-cent bunch of violets when she hasn’t seen a flower for five months;
Who quotes the Apostle Paul on the “woman question” and firmly believes the mantle of the holy man has fallen upon his shoulders;
Who looks upon his wife as a mental waste-paper basket into which he dumps the chips of ideas he has collected during the day.