Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-12-12
ADVICE TO HUSBANDS.
Points for the Consider,
alton of Seekers After Connu-
bini Felicity.

Don't trouble yourself to be on hand
promptly Mt your meals. Your wife will
keep your supper as warm as toast in the
oven for you. She enjoys your hardness
Don't hurry it's vulgar to hurry.
Don't begin to eat your breakfast Ms
soon as you sit down at the table. Bury
yourself in the morning paper first for
about fifteen minutes. Then your break
last will be nice and cold and less liable
to give you the dyspepsia. Your wife
enjoys eating hers in silence and then
watching you bolt yours. 1t increases
feminine amiability.
Don't hesitate to remark on the thin
ness OF the coffee and the toughness of the
steak. Remarks on the dement's of the
food are encouraging to young house
Keepers, and an accomplished cook NAV
thereby be made of an inexperienced and
amiable wife.
Don't hang up the towel when YOU
have finished using it, Toss it lightly to
the top OF u picture frame or onto the
headboard OF the bedstead Your wife
expects to put it in the clothes hamper.
anyway, and by the time she has walked
few yards on the bed-springs, or joyfully
rescued It from the picture, she will be
pleasantly reminded Of the hamper and
of-you
Don't neglect to kick up u row if your
buttons are not all on your underwear in
perfect order Don't spare any pains to
encourage habits of domesticity in your
wife. Many cxertions in this direction
have been known to transform light
hearted girl into an Incompatible house
keeper.
Don't allow the presence OF company to
interfere with your appreciation of your
wife's perfection in housekeeping. Ifyou
see dust on the mantelpiece, wipe it care
fuily away with your pocket handker-
chief. You will at once inspire your
friends with admiration for your thought
fitness.
Don't be tied-mouthed about affairs in
your own home. If the cook puts too
much butter on the steak, call her in and
reprlmand her in stentorian tones. You
support the house and it is your privilege,
Don't forget that you are the captain.
Don't feel any hesitancy in inquiring of
your wife what she did with the SO YOU
gave her four weeks ago. Carelessless in
monetary matters has been known to en-
gender extravaganza Of very serious
nature in women. Never forget the old
saying that "a woman can throw out of
the back window with spoon more than
man can pitch into the front door with
shovel, and "willful waste breeds woful
want"
Don't contract habit OF telling your
wife where you go when you are out
nights. The female mind is very suscep-
tible, and what she don't know won't
trouble her.
Don't fail to break up few articles of
furniture the first time she reads one of
your letters or looks in your pockets. The
exercise may not be agreeable, but the
impression you make may do you good
turn in the future, as she is liable to find
something she would not approve of.
Don't trouble yourself to look very
thoroughly for anything you can't find,
because you might find it and thus inter
fere with her prerogative.
Don't refuse an invitation to the theatre
on your wife's account. Don't mind
about sending her word, and go right from
your place OF business. She will conclude
by 10 o'clock that you are not coming
anyway, and if she sits up and rocks the
baby till II she will be the more glad to
see you when you do come.
Don't deny yourself the pleasure OF
being well dressed at all times. You are
q business man and it is your duty. To
be man among men it is necessary that
you be we'll dressed. If your family love
you they will desire you to be gentle
man ut whatever sacrifice OF comforts and
necessaries on their part.
Don't contract the habit OF waking cas-
lily. You will be often annoyed by the
children if you do, and when your wife
rises in the morning to build the fire she
feels as fresh as n bird, and she loves to
see you enjoying the refreshing slumber
of an innocent child. DON'T let her know
you are awake.
Don't allow your wife to handle any
money in running the house. Pay all the
bills yourself, and then you know just
where all the money goes to. Women
| are not experienced in monetary matters
They are liable to pay their lady friends
car fare, and they are fond of ribbons
Some are even addicted to foreign mis-
sons.
Don't be too much interested in youl
wifes ailments. Headache, neuralgia
and pains in the back are common to the
| feminine constitution. Tell her SO, and
in time she may become quite heroic
Sympathy generates hypochrondria in
many cases. Always suggest disor
dered liver-it may have soothing in
fluence.
Don't permit your wife to question the
proprietry of your drinking with YOU
friends. Ask her why does she drinl
tea! "Tea?" Eyes, teaw That is q
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