The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-02-20
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Don't trouble yourself to be on hand
promptly at your meals. Your wife will
keep your supper as warm as toast in
the oven for you. She enjoys your tar
diness. Don't hurry. It's vulgar to
hurry.
Don't begin to eat your breakfast as
soon as you sit down at the table. Bury
yourself in the morning paper first for
fifteen minutes. Then your breakfast will
be nice and cold and less liable to give
you the dyspepsia. Your wife enjoys
eating hers in silence, and then seeing
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 may
thereby be made of an inexperienced
and amiable wife.
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to the top of pictnre- f-o:,-~
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 JOY
fully rescued it from the picture, she
will be pleasantly reminded of the
hamper and of-you.
Don't neglect to kick up row if
your buttons are not all on and your
underwear in perfect order. Don't
spare any pains to encourage habits of
domesticity in your wife. Manly exer-
tions in this direction have been known
to transform light-hearted girl into an
incompatible housekeeper.
Don't allow the presene of company
to interfere with your appreciation of
your wife's perfection in housekeeping.
If you see dust on the mantelpiece, wipe
it carefully away with your pocket-hand-
kerchief. You will at once inspire your
friends with admiration for your thor
oughness.
Don't be tight-mouthed about the af-
fairs of your own home. If the cook
put too much butter on the steak, call
her in at once and reprimand 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 81
you gave her four weeks ago. Careless
ness in money-matters has been known
to engender extravaganza of a very Sc
rious nature in women. Never forget
the old sayings that "a woman can throw
out of the back door with spoon more
than a man can pitch into the front
door with shovel and 'wilful waste
brings woeful want.
Don't contract habit of telling your
wife where you go when you are out
nights. The female mind is very sus-
ceptible, 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 into your pockets.
The exercise may not be agreeable, but
, , the Impression you make may do you a
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 in.
terfere with her prerogative.
Don't refuse an invitation to the the
atre 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 any way, and if she sits up
and rocks the baby till IL O'Clock she
will be the more glad to see you when
you do come.
Don't deny yourself the pleasure of
being we'll dressed at all times. You
are business man and it is your duty.
To be man among men it is necessary
that you be we'll dressed. If your fam
lily love you they will desire you to look
like gentleman at whatever sacrifice
of comforts and necessaries on their
part.
Don't contract the habit of waking
the Children Kar II HE y0a 9sp d5, Aa RS aaR~Rsezed ~ez Ry
wife rises in the morning to build the
fire she feels as fresh as 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
lust where all the money goes to. Wo'
men are not experienced in monetary
matters. They are liable to pay thell
lady friends car fare, and they are fono
of ribbons. Some are even addicted tc
foreign missions.
Don't be too much interested in YOU
wife's ailments. Headache, Neuralgia
and pains in the back are common te
the feminine constitution. Tell her SO
and in time she may become quite he
roic. Sympathy generates hypochon
dria in many cases. Always suggest
disordered liver-it may have sooth
ing influence.
Don't permit your wife to question
the propriety of your drinking with you
friends. Ask her why does she drin
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