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

Don't trouble yourself to be on han,
promptly at your meals. Your wife vii
keep your supper as warm as toast in tn
oven for you. She enjoys your hardness
Don't hurry; it's vulgar to hurry.
Don't begin to eat your breakfast a.
soon as you sit down at the table. Bur,
yourself in the morning paper first fol
| about fifteen minutes. Then your break
fast 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 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 a 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 eXertions in this direction
have been known to transform a 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
fully away with your pocket handker-
chief. You will at once inspire YOUR
friends with admiration for your thought
,ulness.
Don't be tied-mouthed about affairs in
your own home. II the cook puts too
much butter on the steak, call her in and
t prlmand 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 |
our wife what she did with the So you
ave her four weeks ago. Carelessless in
monetary matters has been known to en-
lender extravaganza of a very serious
lature in women. Never forget the old |
aging that "a woman can throw out of
he back window with spoon more than
man can pitch into the front door with
shovel" and "willful waste breeds woful
rant" t
Don't contract habit of telling your
life where you go when you are out
lights. The female mind is very suscep-
bile, and what she don't know won't
rouble her.
Don't fail to break up few articles of
lrniture the first time she reads one of
our letters or looks in your pockets. The
xercise may not be agreeable, but the
IMPRESSION you make may do you good
i'm in the future, as she is liable to find
she would not approve of.
Don't trouble yourself to look very
thoroughly for anything you can't find,
ecause you might find it and thus inter-
re with her prerogative.
Don't refuse an invitation to the theatre
n your wife's account. Don't mind
bout sending her word, and go right from
our place of business. She will conclude
Y 10 O'Clock that you are not coming
1yway, and if she sits up and rocks the
aby till II she will be the more glad to
,e you when you do come.
Don't deny yourself the pleasure of
cling well dressed at all times. You are
business man and it is your duty. To
: a man among men it is necessary that .
,u be we'll dressed. If your family love :.
ou they will desire you to be a gentle
an at whatever sacrifice of comforts and
,ceSSaries on their mart
Don't contract the habit of waking cas-
Y. You will be often annoyed by the
lildren if you do, and when your wife ,
ses in the morning to build the fire she
els as fresh as bird, and she loves to t
e you enjoying the refreshing slumber
an innocent child. Don't let her know
,u are awake.
Don't allow your wife to handle any
oney in running the house. Pay all the
lis yourself, and then you know just I
here all the money goes to. Women :
e not experienced in monetary matters.
hey are liable to pay their lady friends .
+ fare, and they are fond of ribbons. :
,me are even addicted to foreign mis- :
ons.
Don't be too much interested in your 6
fe's ailments. Headache, neuralgia
I'd pains in the back are common to the
minnie constitution. Tell her SO, and
time she may become quite heroic. =
generates hypochrondria in
any cases. Always suggest a disor- =
red liver-it may have a soothing in
renee.
Don't permit your wife to question the
oprietry of your drinking with your
ends. Ask her why does she drink
a! "Tea?" eyes, teal" That is a
argument. Tea will fetch