The Shasta courier., 1863-01-31
A Confidential connunle.ti. For Ladies.


There are great many oversights in thi.
world-we grow more and more convinced
of the fact every day of our life. There ars
on the treatment of poodles, and books on
the treatment of canary birds--how does il
happen that nobody ever wrote on the treat.
ment Of husbands? Mostof us, in the course
Of our teens, come across some rash and in.
experienced youth or other, who is willing
20 buy our calico, and chop our kindling
wood for life. Saying "yes" is compar-
atively easy affair-but it is quite another
thing to understand the management of the
captive, when he is once wedding. ringed.
There wouldn't be so many swelled noses
and pink eyes if the women knew just how
to play their rds. We have noticed this
kind Of thing a good deal-and here's our
theory.
In the first place. we never should cry
No, if he threw three-legged stool at our
head, or denied us four bonnets in year
and we don't know which Of these atrocities
is the worst. Women make terrible mis-
take when they dissolve into tears, and
thereby allow a man to see just how far his
capacities for making them miserable can
extend. He may give up the point for one
occasion, and go off peaceably--but the next
time he won't fail to use the weapon they
have put into his hands. Ladies don't cry
it is not worth while
Secondly, we shonld never take him out
shopping with us. Let him imagine that
dresses sprout out Of the ground made
and trimmed, with the wnaiepsnes. and the
hooks and eyes sewed on-and that artificial
flowers come full blown on the tops of bon
nets. There is nothing so bad for wearing
off the bloom Of romance as seeing mans S
wife pricing flannel and chaffering with a
pert shopman to get a ribbon two cents a
yard less than it is fairly worth. It's a
perfect disinfectant of loves fever. Besides
all this, a man is apt to lay up your trifling
extravagances in the fourth story of his brain
and rake out again triumphantly, when he
wants reasonable excuse for SPENDING
money on his own account. Move should
do our shopping sub rosa, if we understood
what was best for oursef!
We should never put Goals on the fire, as
long as lie was sitting by. Never, even if
the fire went out. and we crystalized into an
ice-female. He would probably watch US out
of the corner of his eye, 70 see if we meant
to take any steps about the natter until the
coal scuttle became perfectl unavoidable
We shouldn' observe it. however-we should
be totally absorbed in our book or overwork.
Once let woman do such thing, and she
may keep doing it for the rest of her life
Make memorandum of this fact, girls j.
may be useful some day.
We should take it for granted that he
wanted us to to read all his letters-if he did
not, he ought. What business has man
receiving correspondence that his wife can't
see? And it requires a good deal of moral
courage on his part, to interfere, after his
better half has once broken the seal, and
commenced to read the contents of pink
note.
We should never ask him if he intended to
go to church with US, but come smilir down,
with our best bonnet and lilac kid gloves and
a whirlpool of founces, just as the bells be-
gan to ring. He might groan, but he would
take his hat and accompany us, neverthe-
less.
We might go on and give forty wise max
inns, but what's the use? There is knack
in these things that can't be acquired, but
comes by nature. A man ia like that nea'ie-
animal the horse well driven, he will 90
with silk thread for bride. But the
moment an unskiiful hand assumes the reins,
he becomes several degrees less governable
than Bengal tiger without any breakfast.
We have great respect for a woman who
can henpeck her husband scientifically
Jenny Ttorne.