The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-05-14
HE AND SHE.
WHAT A HUSBAND LIKES TO SEE.


Who will have the meals promptly
served.
| Who will keep the match safes CON
stantly supplied
Who will provide a fine dinner every
day-with poor cook in the kitchen.
Who always has a smile and kiss to
greet him.
h Who never tells him that his breath
smells as though he had been drinking.
Who refers to her mother in a dispar-
aging sort of way.
1 Who will wear her watch instead of
turning her husband into sun-dial
Who can run the house, clothe her
self and family, and never ask for any
money.
Who won't lumber up the mantel-
pieces with Scent fans
Who has Il rich father-in-law who can
get pointers on ''corners.
Who won't hang his overcoat inside
out.
Who will consign her armchair tides
to the spare room.
Who will always have his slippers with
in easy reach.
Who won't poke him in the ribs when
he snores and who is too much of lady
to snore herself.
| her he has been to the ''lodoe.
Who doesn't awaken him in the mid
! die of the night with the startling in
| formation that there are burglars in the
| house
Who is as neat and tidy after mar
riage as before.
| Who, when she borrows his pocket
knife, viii return it promptly.
| Who will fix his cuf1-buttons in his
cuffs and his shirt-studs in his shirt.
Who will keep his toothbrush where
the children cannot get hold of it to
scrup the floor with.
Who doesn't insist upon his going
to church with her every Sunday morn
ING.
Who doesn't want him to 90 four
! blocks out of the way to tell the grocer
that 1.-The eggs didn't come
| Who win believe the biggest kind of
lie
Vino will listen with deferential at
tention when he tells her how his mother
does this thing and how she does that
thing.
Who likes to go off with the children
for a visit occasionally, and permits him
| to board at a hotel.
Who can spank the children without
his assistance.
Who is not only careful about darning
his stockings, but her own also.
Who doesn't get excited in a adry-goods
store and oyerdo the matter.
Who, when he comes home with
headache, doesn't ask him if he isn't
smoking too many expensive cigars.
Who doesn't tell him that the money
he spends for tobacco every week would
keep the children in shoes.
Who is willing that he should 90 to
New York for a week without expect
me letter from him every day.
Who, when he takes her for ride and
the house shics. doesn' t scream and grab
the lines.
Who isn't always complaining that
the kitchen stove won't draw
WHAT a WIFE LIKES TO SEE.
A husband who is not always "a little
short >
Who gets home at reasonable time
of night and in reasonable physical con-
dition.
Who always lets her know beforehand
when he brings n friend to dinner.
Who doesn't want to sleep until noon
every Sunday morning,
Who takes pleasure in buying his wifi
a Spring bonnet.
Who compliments her occasionally,
and calls her pretty, whether she is OF
not
Who, when he comes home late a
night, will come in like = man, and not
like a thief
Who can lie in bed while his wife
walks with the baby without swearing
Like a trooper.
Who isn't always telling her that times
are hard and business is poor.
Who will give her credit for working
IA hard as he does, and sometimes
harder.
Who is willing to put up with poor
dinner on Mondays.
Who won't keep the dinner waiting
and then growl because the roast is over
done.
Who doesn't labor under the impress
sion that cigar ashes on the carpet tend
to keep the moths out.
Who is willing TO give his wife half Of
the bed.
Who knows when it is time to get up.
and does not rely on his wife to arouse
him.
Who is blind to the follies of women.
Who takes his wife along occasional
ly when he ''runs down to New York
ION business.
a diamond ring charged.
Who when he takes his wife to the
theatre will not go out between the acts
''to see Il man.
Who will give her stated sum per
month for household expenses instead OF
growing about 1.-the bills.
Who won't sharpen his lead pencil on
the carpet.
Who will empty the ashes and carry
the coal when the cook has been bounced
for impudence.
Who, when he builds an addition
to the house, will allow his wife to ar
range for .scloset room.
Who admires his wife, and has the
common sense to tell her OF it.
Who will not whip off his little pint
bottle of champagne and think Hem
lock water good enough for his better
half
Who will not insist on having the pill
low with the most feathers.
Who does not require coaxing to get
his wife new dress or u piece of jew
elry.
Who will be as polite to his wife as
he is to other women, and will lift his
hat to her when he meets her on the
street.
Vino can be generous to himself if he
is only just to her.
Who is willing to share the evening
paper.