Married People Would Be Happier.
By N. Y. Mail; Express
If home troubles were never told to a neighbor. If expenses were proportioned to receipts. If they tried to be as agreeable as in courtship days. If each would remember the other is a human being, not an angel. If each was as kind to the other as when they were lovers. If fuel and provisions were laid in during high tide of summer work. If both parties remembered that they married for worse as well as for better. If men were as thoughtful for their wives as they were for their sweet-hearts. If there were fewer silk and velvet street costumes, and more plain, tidy house dresses. If men would remember that a woman cannot be always smiling who has to cook the dinner, answer the door-bell half a dozen times, and get rid of a neighbor who has dropped in, tend a sick baby, tie up the cut finger of a two-year-old, tie up the head of a six-year-old on skates, and get an eight-year-old ready for school. A woman with all this to contend with may claim it as a privilege to look and feel a little tired sometimes, and a word of sympathy would not be too much to expect from the man who, during the honeymoon, would not let her carry as much as a sunshade.—N. Y. Mail and Express.