p. 16 | When Marriage Is a Failure

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 26, 1911

When Marriage Is a Failure

If neither husband nor wife has married for love, but merely for money, convenience, or any other mundane motive.

If the meals are ill-cooked and badly served, and dirt, discomfort, and disorder reign supreme in the home.

If two young persons rush into matrimony, and take upon themselves all the burdens of married life when too young to realize the responsibility of it.

If husband and wife are prone to have a “few words,” and do not know how to keep silent on certain subjects.

If the income, when well managed and made the most of, can not cover the expenditure.

If the husband be a faddy, fidgety man, perpetually prying into household matters, and thinks he knows more about them than any one else.

If both parties are resolutely resolved to see only the worst side of each other’s character.

If the husband tries to be mistress as well as master, or the wife master as well as mistress of the house.

If, when dark days come, husband and wife forget that they have taken each other for better or worse, for richer or poorer.

If the wife is a fine lady, totally ignorant of even the rudiments of domestic economy, and thinks more of her dress than of her husband’s comfort.

If the husband is a domestic tyrant, or the wife a slatternly, scolding vixen. — Christian Herald.