Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-03-01
How to Have Patient Husband.

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Always be minute behind time
in everything.
Patience is 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 probably he
will, tell him not to be in such tan.
trum--it is not becoming in man of
his age.
When he wants to read you some
interesting item in the daily paper,
tell him to wait Just one minute, until
you do this or that. Newspaper par.
agraphs win last, and if his interest in
having your sympathy in the bon mot
dies out in waiting, why let it die.
II he is going away on the early
train. and asks you to sew button
on his shirt collar, let it go till morn
ing. 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
swearing over those cuff buttons,
which will not go into their appropri-
ate button holes. Even if he does have
to run to catch the train, never mind (;
it'll do no harm. Running is good
exercise, especially wien person has
sachel and an umbrella in one hand,
and an overcoat and two paper par
cells to manage with the other.
Make him wait for his dinner. He
will have better appetite. Nobody
rellshes dinner half so much if it is
all ready. He can whistle all the tunes
he knows, and trot his toes. and drum
on the table with his toes, and indulge
in various other soul-elevating amuse-
ments, while he is waiting. And pa
thence will be doing her work all the
time. Yes, to be sure
If he ventures to demonstrate, as
perhaps he will, wither him with a
look, and tell him that men should
have higher subjects of thought than
The mere filling OF their stomachs.
If you are at all religious, you can
throw in something about the Setter
nal interests of his SOUL" by way of a
clincher. Hungry men generally like
theological questions brought to their
notice. A mans head is clearer, our
Psychologists say, when his stomach
is empty.
1.-The is going to take you to ride,
be few minutes behind time, espec-
tally if he has fidgety horse. Most
men like to wait at the front door, with
the horse curveting and backing the
buggy over the b,stone, and biting
at the lamp.posts and shade trees and
paving up the gravel, and making
things generally lively.
Let the horse wait; it will teach
him to stand. Horses were made to
wait; it's their duty, and they should
be broken so that horse flies, as large
as bumblebees, may crawl on them by
the quart, and they never lift a tail by
way of retaliation.
When you are going to church with
your husband, contrive to be little
behind-you can manage it easily
enough by going back to your room
and curling those stray locks of hair
over your eyebrows over again, and
then you might as we'll do over your
chignon while you are about it. Your
husband must learn to wait.
And when you go into church the
services will probably have commen-
ced, and it will be a diversion to the
congregation to turn around and look
at you, ard Rev. Mr.. jumpers prayer
which will be in progress, will not
seem half so long winded for the in
terruption.
Make him wait for everything, on
any occasion, and by The time you
have drilled him for fifty years, or
less, he will have developed patient
disposition, or he will have gone off
to play cavalier to some woman who
is never behind time-Kate Ihorne,
IN the Ne,0 York Weekly.