The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-01-25
eRAIsE YouR WIEE.
A Woman Tells Husbands How They Ca
Make Themselves Agreeable.

A Woman Tells Husbands How They Can
Make Themselves Agreeable.
Praise your wife, man! For PHYS
sake give her little encouragement
it won't hurt her. She has made your
home comfortable, your hearth bright.
your food agreeable. For PHYS sake,
tell her you thank her. If nothing more.
She doesn't expect it; it win make her
eyes open wider than they have for these
last ten years. But it will do her good,
for all that-and you, too. There are
many women to-day thirsting for a
word of praise-the language OF en-
couragement. Through summers heat
and winters toll they have drudged un-
complainingly, and so accustomed have
their fathers. brothers and husbands be-
come to their labors that they look for
and upon them as they do TO the daily
rising Of the sun and its daily going
down. You know that If the floor is
clean. labor has been performed to make
it so. You know that if you can take
from your drawer clean shirt when
ever you want it, somebody's fingers
have toiled. Every thing that pleases
the eye and the sense has been pro-
duced by work, thought, care and ef-
forts bodily and mental. Many men
appreciate these things, and feel graft
tude for the numberless attentions
bestowed upon them in sickness and
health Why don't they come out with
hearty why, how pleasant you make
things look. wife," or 81 am obliged to
you for taking so much pains?" They
thank the tailor for good fit; they
thank the man in the horse-car who
gives them a seat; they thank the lady
who moves along in the concert-room;
in short they thank every body and
every thing out-of-doors; and come
home, tip their chairs back and their
heels up, pull out the newspaper, scold
if the fire has got down, or, if every
thing is just right, shut their mouths
with a smack of satisfaction, but never
say Il thank you" / tell you what,
men, young and old, If you did but
show an ordinary civility toward your
wives; If you gave one hundred and
sixteenth part of the compliments you
almost choh1ed them with before they
were married; If you would stop the
badinage about whom you are going to
have when number one is dead (such
things wives may laugh at, but they
sink deep sometimes;) If you would
cease to speak of their faults, however
banteringly. before others - fewer
women would seek for other sources OF
happiness. Praise your wife, then, for
all her good qualities-and you may
rest assured that her deficiencies are
no greater than your own.-Ladies'
Home FGsttor.
-Bunco Canvasser - al can't ue
mfstakeni Arn't you a son of the
Widners, of Richmond" His Prey
''No; I'm son of Cannon, of Salt
Lake City, and you don't want to fool
round tn muzzis, young fellow. -
Time.
Mrs. Brown" Tell me, Nellie,
was your husband much embarrassed
when he proposed to youp' Mrs.
Younghushand-"N Not nearly so much
as he was liter the bills for our we'd
ding reception came in,"-Boston
Transcript.
Major McTavish-"M Fitch, /
want you to know the Rajah of Gavin
pohr, one Of our most eminent dis
ciples of Brahma." Mr.. Fitch (of
nlinois) y" Proud to meet you, sir
It's tn best breed that ever laid an
egg. ."-Judge.
Cashier (stopping Mr.. Dumley)-
'tBy the way, Dumley, see that your
bank account is overdrawn to the
tune of hundred and fifty dollars. +"
Dumley--'- = All right, old man; if you
send boy down to my Office with a
statement of the whole business, I'll
give you a check for the amount.