Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1886-10-16
The Household.
CONDUCTED BY
MIS- julia N, Walters Thompson Sts, Tenn
JUDGMENT AND MANAGEMENT

1t requires both to successfully carry
on any kind of business, and he who
lounges around a saloon, or the man
who neglects his farm and idles away
his time whiting goods boxes at
the town or country store, or spends
half days at the shop, trusting to
"luck," may certainly expect the one
word, failure, to rise before HIM.
Thrice hard is the lot of the wife of
such man.
OF course, the business will not
prosper, left to the supervision Of the
chief clerk or overseer as it would if
the proprietor himself would be on
hand to keep things moving, and the
wife may just as well make up her
mind to take the little accumulated
savings on which she has bestowed
SO many perplexing problems Of how
to procure them with her limited
revenue, and with which she has
fondly hoped to purchase some covet-
ed poems, or a few of the limitless ar
ticles in the show windows, which
make woman, with any degree of
love for the beautiful, fairly forget
her station, while her eyes beam and
her heart fiutters to think that in her
portemonnaie she has the little roll
of bills that will purchase these beau
ties to adorn her home. But 1 say,
fshe is so unfortunate as to be united
to a man who has no business qualifi-
cations, she may turn away with a
regretful sigh, and buy cotton checks
and linsey for the brats.
o, I tell you, these two words have
adeeper meaning than many thought
less ones imagine. Girls should well
be taught then, judgement in their
selection of books, of companions, OF
articles of apparel, ofright and wrong,
and especially of their selection of
husband. Then they should be well
informed as to the management Of
everything pertaining to home-life
the husband included. If things
be in them and abound, there would
be fewer wrecks drifting on life's
ocean, and there would mot wave
of trouble roll across their peaceful
breasts"
Below are some suggestions have
clipped on the subject of the manage
ment of a husband, and they are well
worthy of being practice:
A FEW WORDS TO WIVES.
The Graphic.
Encourage strict confidence witt
your husband ; withholdnothingfron
him, and be patient in hearing all hi
would confde to you, that he may al
ways fly to you as his counselor ant
best friend.
Be punctual to a second in all en-
gagements with your husband and h
will be the same with you, and il
thus doing you will avoid much tina
is unpleasant.
Practice economy in taking care G
what you have, keeping strict &C
count of what you spend, buyini
nothing but what you pay for imme
diately, and making your account
each months expenses show you hav
more than you have spent. This is
great way to win mans respect, t
make him think he has a little say
ings bank upon which he can rely i
time of sickness and financial diff
Guilty.
Rule only by love. Strive to ca
out the best feelings of your husband
nature with continual loving after
tons, which, though they may /
small in themselves, make such
strong chain around his heart in tin
that he cannot turn carelessly asit
from you.
Go out always with your husband
but manage to make home so attra
tive that he finds no place so dear.
Dress better for your husband tina
for anyone else. Take a pride in h
appearance, that he may judge yol
heart by his own. Never allow hi
to see you slatternly attired. Eve
be tasty in kitchen dress or lookir
pretty over a kitchen board.
Be strong in your determinatic
never to gossip, to harshly critics
Nothing men so much despise as e
sip; nothing makes a woman rise
much in good mans estimation
to see her charitable, particular
with her own sex. "For large cha
ty does never soil, but only white
soft white hands,"
Put down your book when yo
husband enters the room and interC