Omaha daily bee., 1886-10-17
Some Reasons why Husbands Should
Not Stay ut Home.

Men about home, writes the author of
How to Be Happy Though Married. " in
the London Queen, all day are fidgety,
grumpy and neutrality-suspicious. OBJ.
jectionable in short This is the case
very often with authors or parsons, or
painters; but it is particularly apt to be
so with the unemployed, such, for in.
stance. as oflicels and business men, who
have retired or are out of harness for a
short time. The spirit of mischief is
never at loss for a job for paterfamilias
if it catches him idling and lounging
about-neIther at work nor at play. It
stlrs up his bile and irritabilty and in
cites him TO the reform of domestic
abuses. 1t kindles his sanitary ardor,
and sends him poklng and shifting about
lnconvenently into all corners of the es-
tablishment; or sets him about the cur
tailmcnt of housekeeping expenses, or
the amendment of various unmethodical
household proceedings all of which, how
ever right and proper, tend TO disturb
domestic peace and qulctude, and to
make the women of the house devoutly
pray for the time when business shall
call the disturber sway Immediately
after breakfast, and keep him away till
toward evening. We have known clever
men who were always thinking of new
theories and "fads" about the manage
ment Of children and other parts of
family government. Such men torment
their wives and injure the health of their
children when they allow these theories
TO interfere with common sense and
practical experience. The following case
will illustrate what is meant A GER
tain family had the youngest members i'll
with measles. The time was winter, and, =,
amongst his other prescriptions for their
benefit the doctor ordered that the room
in which the patients were should be Kept
free from drafts of cold air. Everything
went on comfortably, and all were con-
valescent but the two youngest one about
three years of age and the other fifteen
months To them their father came
one day in January; the temperature was
higher than usual, he wore great coat,
and had walked fast about mile up hill
at noon under winter sun. He was
warm, and when he. entered the sick
chamber he found it sitting. Being q
bustling sort of man, and very opinion.
ated, he ordered the children and their
nurses to leave the Sitting chamber,
where none but salamanders could live
and 90 into another room where the air
was pure, and sweet, and cool"
Remonstrances were vain, and the poor
patients were packed off to an unaired
bedroom. Within one hour the young
est child was affected with Group, and in
n few more the second became equally
i'll. Both died within three days, victim!
to pedantry and obsunacy. But the
pedantry and obstinacy. would probably
never have had such fatal results if the
father had not been idling at home.
A man can never pull with his wifi
until he learns not to interfere with wha
does not concern him. He who car
trust his wife, should no more meddl,
with her home concerns than she shoulC
poster him with questions about his bust
ness. There will be no peace if he pok,
over the weekly bills, insist upon know
ing how much each thing is per pound
and what he is gong to have every da.
for dinner Ii is, indeed, almost a sin,
qua non of domestic felicity that pate
familias should be absent from home a
least six hours in the day Jones aske,
his wife: "Why is a husband like Dough-
He expected she would give il up, and h
was going TO tell her that it was becaus,
woman needs him; but she said it wal
because he was hard to get off her hands
OF course, ike GgGITJy- ether good rule
this one of non.intervention may be car
ried too far, rs it was by the studiou
man who said, when servant told hin
that his house was on fire, go to you
mistress; You know / have no charge c
household matters No doubt occasion
too glad to take counsel with his wife i
business cares while she may have to r.
member all her life long, with gratitud
and love, some season of sickness G
affiiciion when he filled his own plac
and hers too, ashamed of no womanis
task and neither Irritated or humiliatc
by ever such trivial household cares.