The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1891-03-26
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4 Guod Wife.
In order to fill the bill as good wife,
a woman should possess certain quali6ca-
tions and almost any man can tell you
just what these qualifications are.
In the first place, she should be good.
looking 1t makes man feel discourag.
ed to see homely woman around his
house, and to feel that as tfle goes on
she will be growing palmer right along.
She must have a good temper. A
man does not want to be nagged. 1t
makes home distasteful to him, and he
does not feel as if he ought to be blamed
if he frequents the public house and the
club room.
No matter how cross and illnatured
he may be, his wife must be sweet "a
soft answer turneth way wrath, he says;
and when man quotes Scripture he has
got you fast.
If he is cross he has reason for it he
will tell you. A mans life is full of
cares and perplexities, and all woman
has to do is just stay at home, and see to
the house, aud look after the children
and servants.
She must meet her husband with a
smile, this good wife OF his, and no mat.
ter if she has the headache, or the cook
has given notice, or her new dress is o
horrible misft, or her next door neighbor
has got more expensive set of parlor
curtains than she has, and has been iu to
tell her about them, she must smile all
the same.
She musu't ask him troublesome quea.
tions about the lodge meeting which kept
him last night till long past midnight,
and she mustn't mind the smell of cloves
on his breath. Some mems breath have
natural Glove smell.
She must always be ready to find his
hat and gloves. Hats and gloves have a
mania for getting lost, and it takes a
woman to find them every time.
No man living ever yet found any Of
his dry goods, without first turning the
house upside down. and declaring that
the thing sought for was not in the
housel
She must be delighted when any OF
his relatives come to pay her visit, and
take the privilege of prying into her
domestic affairs, and Of tellisg he7-that
she will certainly send "poor brother
John" to the poor house, if she keeps on
using so much sugar and wasting SO much
coal
She must bear with cquanimity the
said Johns allusions to mothers flip.
jacks and mothers gingerbread" and she
mustn't feel hurt ifhe lays dyspepsia to
that cake she had for snpper last night.
She mustn't mind it if he resds the
newspaper and rattles it, too, when her
head aches enough to split, and instead
of petting her and being distracted with
anxiety as be used to be. a husband
can't be expected to hold this way It is
too much of strain. But if his head
aches, she must be ready with camphor,
and bay rum, smelling salts, and the fine
ccmb, and the electric hair brush, and
she must Danish the children and mune
the door bell, and attend to him, and if
she steps. into the back yard for q minute
to get breath and talk over the last fash
ion book with her next door neighbor,
he feels bitterly wronged, and thinks
himself the most forbearing of men if he
does not apply for divorce.
A good wife must be on the alert at all
times to sew on buttons. She must study
the science of collar bands. She must
never weary of trying to get bis shirt
sleeves just right.
She must not wake him up in the night
to help her listen for burglars, and she
must not think of sending him down
stairs to see if the back door is fastened,
or to discover whether or not the cat is
shut up in the pantry. The back entry
oil.cloth is as cold as the ice on the polar
ocean, and he might catch his death.
She must take her colicky baby where
her husband will not be disturbed by its
crying. It always did set his nerves on
edge to hear baby cry, he will tell her,
in the voice of man bitterly wronged
and imposed upon.
There are great many other qualities
requisite in good wife, but of course
everything cannot be looked for in one
woman, and if you are a wife, and want
your husband to love you, try and be
what ne describe, and he will quote you
to his second wife as a model of all the
womanly and wifely graces.-C2ara Au-
gusta, IA Saturday night.