Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-02-18
aDoNTs. EoR WIVES.


Don't disturb your husband while he
is reading his morning or evening paper
by asking foolish questions. He may
be only reading the latest scandal or
divorce suit, but he is just as much in
terested as though ii were foreign news
or market reports. BE patient, and
when he comes across anything he
thinks you can comprehend perhaps he
may read tit 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 a man he is good look
ing. Some other woman probably will
some time, and in that ease he won't
know that her opinion concurs with
yours. He carries pocket hand-glass
now, and he will shortly become adj
dicted to pejamas.
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 different places for the
button-hook
Don't impose upon your husband just
because he is good enough to assist you
a little in your homework. Don't leave
the stoYe-handle in the red-hot stove,
and don't ask him 10 empty the ash-hod.
Draw line ON the ash-hod, and don't
run free horse to death.
I l., Il
notes that he has put carefully away on
the sitting-room tablc-and tuck them
in the fire the moment his back is
turned
Don't trade off all his old clothes for
a pair Of China dogs and then tell him
about il.
Don't monopolizc every hook in the
closet. Graciously tender him one nail
for his very own and then, in mercy,
hang your Mother Hubbard your
pclerinc, your shopping bag, and your
bonnet some other place.
Don be inexplict in giving direc
tons. When you ask him to 20 up
stairs for your portemonnaie, tell him it
is either on the table. or in the further
corner Of the left-hand side of the upper
bureau drawer. or in the pocket of your
| brown dress in the closet. He will have
10 trouble in finding it if you can tell
him just where il is, especially the
( pocket.
/ Don't ask him where he has been the
m21lent he enters the house, or whece
| he going If he starts out for q walk
/ before breakfast Ii nettles him.
and men hate to have such pointed
! questions sprng upon them. Besides
4 taat, Wc live under Il free flag.
Dou't ask him 70 walk tie floor with
the baby half the night. A man who
| tramps industri susly around billiard
! table three rIghts in the week or buys
I'M admission ticket to the opera can't
be zpocted to be on duty mt home the
! other three nights. Have mercy on him
and give the man an opportunity TO re-
/ cuperatc.
Don't waste your breath in useless
Yitupcration against his favorite chum.
Cultivate The ehum yourself-ostensibly
whtH yor husband is not around,
and matters viii assume different
aspect.
Don't put pins in your curl papers or
/ let your crimping pins dangle on your
forehead. They are denominations and
feminine implements Of warfare that
men despisc.
Don't leave hair in the comb or your
neck curls where they will stick to his
| hair brush. Bon { put long hair on
the soap or in his tooth brush-pur-
! poseg.
Don't mend his hosiery with coarse
cotton having knots in it larger than a
pea.
Don't be unreasonably vexcd if he is
not ready for church as soon as you are.
If he doesn't start to get ready till the
bells begin 10 ring. you mustn't expect
the same result as with yourself, who
had thc whole morning before you.
Don't scola him because he leave:
ashes in his pipe One of the privileges
Of a married man is to leave an old pipe
full Of ashes in just the position TO emp
| ty the contents on the window-sill o.
the mantelpiece, the moment it i,
touched.
Don't ina.lee in flights Of tempe,
when your husband suggests how his
mother did. If he objects to having
eggs boiled in the tea-kettlc. and pre-
fes them washed previous 70 cooking
endeayor to please him BY INDUCING
him in his fancics. In the meantime
bring your sons up rs carefully rs You
can, and when they are married, yol
Yourself viii doubtless be held up as al
example u virtue; and revenge il
sweet
Don't be too prodigal in the use o
kindling-wood. There is no fruit of hi.
toll that man guards as jealousy as hi
does his kindling-wood He would fair
put it where thieves break not through
and steal So, Just because you hay,
free access to it, don't burn up enough
to last week in one day
Don [ parley for the last word in ;
discussion. The sooner you discover
that it is a pleasure you must forego
and make up your mind TO relinquish i
entirely, the sooner you have chanc,
for peace in the family, and a long lif,
OF treside oontentment. Haryot Holt
IN Chicago Herdid.
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