The Daily Tombstone., 1886-01-19
DOn'ts For Wives.
Chicago Herald.l

 paper by asking foolish questions. He may be only reading the latest scan- dal or divorce suit, but he is just as much interested as though it were foreign news or the latest market re- ports Be patient, and when he comes across anything he thinks you may comprehend perhaps he may read it to you.
 Don't communicate unpleasant news or ask favor before eating. The heart is not easily touched when the stomach is empty.
 Don't ever tell man he is good looking. Some other woman probably will some time, and in that case he won't know that her opinion concurs with yours. He carries pocket hand glass now, and he will shortly become addicted to pejamas.
 Don't ever tell a man he has pretty legs. Men who have been known to bear up under facial compliments fail completely when they realize their legs are noticebly good.
 Don't put the morning paper at the bottom of the pile, and don't have more than dozen different places f1r the button-hook.
 Don't impose upon your husband just because he is good enough to as- sist you in your housework. Don't leave the stove handle in the red-hot stove, and don't ask him to empty the ash-hod. Draw line over the ash-hod, and don't run free horse to death.
 Don't gather up all the receipts and notes that he has put carefully away on the sitting room table-and tuck them in the fire the moment his back is turned.
 Don't monopolize every hook in the closet. Graciously tender him one nail for his own-and then, in mercy hang your "Mother Hubbard" your pelerine, your shopping-bag and your bonnet some other place.
 Don't be inexplicit in giving direc- tions. When you ask him to go up stairs for your portemonnaie, tell him it is either on the table, or in the fur ther corner of the left hand bureau 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 he has been the moment he enters the house, or where he is going if he starts out for a walk before breakfast. It nettles him and men 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 industriously around a 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.
 s Don't waste your breath In useless !, vituperation against his favorite chum, Cultivate the chum yourself-onten- sibly-when your husband is not around, and matters will assume diff ferent aspect.
 Don't put pins in your curl papers I or let your crimping pins dangle on l your forehead. They are abomina- l tions and feminine impliments of war, s fare that men despise. S Don't leave hair in the comb or your 1 neck curls where they will stick to his s hair brush. Don put long hair on the soap or in his tooth brush-pur, posely.
 Don't mend his hosiery with cotton g having knots in it larger than a pea '' Don't scold him because he leaves 0 ashes in his pipe. One of the privi leges of married man is to leave ar
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