Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-16
FOR MARRIAGEABLE MEN.
A Veteran Speaks Out of the Burden O
 His Experience.

His Experience.
 My son, wish to give you little ad- vice on the subject of matrimony. suppose you will be married some day, for marrying sort O runs in the family. Your mother and are married, and your grandparents on both sides, so far as I know, were all married for several gen. erations back, so that it is highly prob able that you will in time follow the family example.
 Now, there are two things that wo- man dotes on-namely, a helpless baby and helpless husband. Helpless about the house, mean, though, as for that matter, there are hundreds of women who marry men who are as shiftless about getting a living as they are help less about the house, and they will just wear themselves out in supporting the creatures and find perfect happiness in their labor.
 It is good thing for man to know how to sew, and to knit, and to darn that is to say, if a Elan is always to be a bachelor-but if you are up in all these accomplishments never let your wife know it. At all events, never put your knowledge into practice. No woman with mind of her own can bear to have man puttering at woman's work. She cant help despising him, handy though he may be. It seems to her as though she had married a woman.
 In case of emergency you may feel like washing the dishes or sweeping the floor or carrying water for the washing, but do not give way to the temptation. If you do, however, do the work in as awkward a manner as possible. Break 8 dish or two, fill the house with dust or scatter water all over the house. You will never be asked or permitted to try your hand again.
 During courrship you waited upon the woman. Now she is your wife, let her wait on you. It is kindness to her, for it is an acknowledgment of her su- periority over yourself It is delicate and easily rendered flattery, which, while saving you an immense amount of drudgery, cannot fail of making her on good terms with herself, which is the very essence of happiness.
 Should your wife ask you to split wood for her, or kindle the kitchen fire, or rattle down the furnace, you will see tO IL ClldG you ClulOeI up IIlc Celldr, SCdU- ter ashes about the kitchen floor or fill the house with coal gas. When next there is wood to split, or fires to build, or furnaces to rattle down, she will do it herself.
 You will thus give an opportunity of telling to her acquaintances, with su- preme zest, what an awful mess you make of it when you undertake to dc anything about the house, and in process of time you will have nothing to do but to be waited upon as tenderly as though you were an infant in arms.
 Of course she will be mistress of the establishment and boss, but what of that? It pays to be bossed if the boss will do all the work. There is good deal of nonsense going about being under petticoat government. It is the most de- hghtful form of government imaginable for the governed. You just let a wife have her say. and she is willing that you should do nothing but rest yourself and admire her smartness.
 You just follow my advice, my scn, and your married life will be a bed of roses; neglect it, and you'll have nothing but cark and care and heaps of hard work in the bargain.