The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-01-31
"DONT,s" FOR WIVES.
Little Things Which Will Make House
hold Happy


hold Happy.
| Chicago Herald
| Don't disturb your husband while he is read
| ing his morning evening paper by asking fool
| sh questions. He may be only reading the
latest scandal or divorce suit but he is just as
| much interested as though it were foreign news
| or market reports. Be patient and when he
comes across anything he thinks you can com
prehend perhaps he may read it to you.
Don't communicate unpleasant news or ask a
favor before eating The heart is not easily
| touched when the stomach is empty
Don't ever tell a he is ood-looking.
Some other woman probably will some time. and
in that case he won't know that her opinion con
ours with yours. He carries pocket hand glass
now, and he will shortly become addicted t.
BAHAMAS.
Don't ever tell man he has pretty legs. Men
who have been known to bear up under facial
compliments fail completely when they realize
their legs are noticeably good.
Don't put the morning paper at the bottom of
the pile, and don't have more than dozen diff
ferent places for the button hook.
Don't impose upon your husband just because
he is good enough to assist you little in your
homework. Don't leave the stove handle in the
red-hot stove, and don't ask him to empty the
ash hod. Draw a line on the ash hod and don't
run free horse to DEATH
Don't gather up all his receipts and notes that
he has put carefully away the sitting room
table-and tuck them in the fire the moment his
back is turned.
Don't monopoize every hook in the closet.
Graciously tender him nail for his very own
and then, in mercy, hang your Mother Hub
bard" your pelerine. your shopping bag and
your bonnet some other place.
Don't be inexplicit in giving directions When
you ask him to go stairs for your porte mon
naie tell him it is either on the table or in the
further corner of the left-hand of the upper bu-
reau drawer, or in the pocket of your brown
dress in the closet He will have no trouble in
finding tiff you can tell him Just where it is,
especially the pocket.
Don't ask him where ne has been the moment
he enters the house, or where he is going if he
starts out for walk before breakfast It net
ties him. and hate TO have such pointed
questions sprung upon them. Besides that, we
live under free flag.
Don't ask him to walk the floor with the baby
half the night A man who tramps industricusly
around billiard table three nights in the week
or buys an admission ticket to the opera can't be
expected to be on duty at home the other three
nights. Have mercy on him. and give the man
an opportunity to recuperate.
Don't waste your breath in useless vitupera-
ton against his favorite chum. Cultivate the
chum Yourself ostensibly-when your husband
is not around and matters will assume differ
ent aspect.
Don't put pins in your curl papers or let your
crimping pins bangle on your forehead They
are denominations and feminine implements Of
warfare that men despise.
Don't leave hair in the comb or your neck curls
where they will stick to his hair brush, Don't
put long hair on the soap or in his tooth brush
-purposely.
Don't mend his hosiery with cotton having
knots in 1t larger than a pea.
Don't scold him because ne leaves ashes in his
pipe. One of the privileges of married man is
to leave old pipe full of ashes in just the posi-
ton to empty the contents on the window sill or
mantel piece the momentit is touched.
Don't indulge in flights of temper when your
husband suggests how his mother did. Ii he OBJ
jects TO having eggs boiled in the tea-kettle and
prefers them washed previous to cooking en-
deavor to please him by INDUCING him in his fan
cies. In the meantime bring your sons up as
carefully as you can, and when they are married
you yourself will doubtless be held up as an exam
pie of virtue. and revenge is sweet
Don't be too prodigal in the use of kindling
wood. There is not fruit of his toll that man
guards az jealousy as he does his kinding wood
He would fam put it where thieves break not
through and steal. So. just because you have
free access to it, don't burn up enough to last
week in one dav.