The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-04-26

Always be minute behind time in
everything.
Patience is q great and glorious trait
of character and almost all men lack it.
Keep them always waiting, and patience
will, of course, ensue.
If he scOlds, as very likely he will,
tell him not to be in such tantrum-
it is not becoming in man of his
age.
When he wants to read you some in
teresting item in q daily paper, tell
him to wait just one minute while you
do this or that. Newspaper paragraphs
will last, and if his interest in having
your sympathy in the bon mot dies out
with waiting, why. lett die.
1.-The is going away on the early train,
and asks you to sew button on his
shirt collar, let alone till morning.
There is no hurry. The later it is
sewed on the less likely it will be to
come off before he returns You can
do it in the morning while he is swear
ing over those cuff-buttons, which will
not 60 into their appropriate button
holes. Even if he does have to run to
| catch the train. never mind it'll do
him no harm. Running is good exer-
else, especially when a person has a
| sachel aud umbrella in one hand and
in overcoat and two paper parcels to
manage with the other.
Make him wait fOl his dinner. He
will have a better appetite. Nobody
| relishes dinner half so much if it is
all ready. He can whistle the tune he
knows, and trot his toes, and drum on
the table with his knuckles, and in
| dulge in various other soul elevating
amusements, while he is waiting.
And patience will be doing his work
all the time. Yes. to be sure.
| Ii he ventures to demonstrate, as
perhaps he will, wither him with a
look and tell him thatm men should have
| higher subjects Of thought than the
mere filling of their stOmachS.
Ii you are at all religious you can
throw in something about the .eternal
interests of his SOUL" by way of q
clincher. Hungry men generally like
to have geological questions brought
10 their notice. A man. head is clear
er, our psychologists say, when his
stomach is empty.
If he is going to take you to ride be
a few minutes behind time, especially
if he has a fidgety horse. Most men like
to wait at the front door, with the
horse curveting, and backing the buggy
over the curb-stone, and biting at the
lamp posts and shade trees, and paw.
ing up the gravel, and making things
generally lively.
Let the horse wait. 1t will teach
him to stand. Horses were made
to wait. 1t is their duty, and they
should be broken SO that horse flias, "a:
large as bumble-hees, may crawl OF
them by the quart, and they neve,
lift a tail by way of retaliation.
/ When you are going to church will
your husband contrive to bs a littl
behind. You can manage it readil.
enough by going back to your room
and curling those stray locks Of hal
above your eye brOws over again
And then you might as well edo owe
your chignon while you are about it.
Your husband must learn to wait.
And when you 60 into church tn
services will probably have com
menced, and it will be a diversion t,
the congregation to turn round an
look at you, and the Rev. Mr.. Juni
per's prayer, which will be in pre-
gress, will not seem half SO long wind
ed for the interruption.
Make him wait for everything, o
any occasion, and, by the time yo
have drilled him for fifty years, h
will probably have developed patien
disposition, or die.