The morning news., 1894-06-29
KEEPS HIM At HOME.
A Husband Who Has Studied His
Wife'S Success.
A Few of the Thousand Dainty Little
Articles Put Forth by a Devoted
Wopaon

Woman.
From the New York Press.
The absence of the husband from bis
home appears to be growing evil. Being
a home keeping man, have been asked
how my wife manages the matter.
1t is not an easy subject to handle, since
it involves the mention of many small
items which, insignificant in themselves,
become important when massed together
in the aggregate.
For keeping husband at home is not
to be accomplished by any one single act
it is the thousand and one acts which
weave the silken rope, strong as steel,
and scarcely felt.
To obviate any idea that 1 am tame
cat sort of man, it is perhaps necessary
to say that / have travelled and roughed
1T over fair portion of the globe, and to-
day am an active fellow, fond of outdoor
sports and muscular recreation, and that
L have been married nearly fourteen
years. Yet | find my chief pleasure in
the company of my wife. 1t is very few
evenings that an hour after business closes
| am not at home, and it does not seem to
me that it is one evening month l go out
again alone.
L
have TO try to tell.
In the first place would describe my
wife as just a woman, and all that term
implies; independent, self-respecting, up
right, charitable, kind and rigidly strict
in matters of truth and money.
ALWAYS FINDS HER AT HOME.
go home always to find her there,
glad to see me, no litter around, but a
cozy, fairly neat room having an air of
quiet and repose, and the indefinable
sense that the one thing necessary to
complete the home picture comes in
when l open the door. There is no dis
cord, seldom any visitors, no crying of
children, no fuss, but repose and well
come.
In short, return to find a companion,
one who never prizes into my business
matters, but one who is interested in
them and who is capable of passing an
opinion experience has taught me not
lightly to disregard. She will intelli-
gently talk over any project of future
work or the position Of any present busi-
ness, but it is always myself who must
broach the business topic
At $50 dinner is ready. The table is
always attractive, and, without ostenta-
ton or display, find that any idly ex-
pressed wish of mine as to certain dishes
has been noted and the dish produced. l
can see that, while the tastes of others
have not been neglected, mine have re-
ceived special attention-often to the OK
tent of preparing dishes which l am fond
of, but which my wife never eats. re-
monstrate, but she laughs, and the dish
appears again in due course. The food is
generally cooked much better and
infinitely more delicately prepared than l
get it in the best restaurant in the city,
and l know that the care and supervision
solely in my behalf, for l believe but few
women will take the trouble to ''cook"
for themselves individually.
BREAKFAST ON TIME.
Breakfast is always on hand, and has
the impress of the same kind and yet it
seems to me that seldom or never see
my wife in the kitchen, except when
she makes the bread twice a week.-Mrs.
also being done especially for my personal
taste.
After dinner we call upon friends or
we have theater tickets or some one is
coming in. This we know beforehand, as
a rule, for my wife does not encourage
surprise parties" If it is an off night,
we have a little good music for an hour
smoke good cigar and confine my smoke
to one room in the house, and then, while
my wife takes up her work, read aloud.
find her willing to go anywhere with
me, to do anything, delighted to go for a
drive or couple of days fishing trip,
yachting trip in the vacation, ready to
don her rubber skirt, coat and sou'wester
and plunge into the flying spray that is
the breath of life to me. If it is a drive
into the country, botanizing ramble into
the woods, a visit to some old historic
spot, she is interested, ready 10 grasp all
the pleasure in it.
FINANCES.
From the first she has known my in
come and all its fluctuations, and have
never known her to ask me for money
Whatever was the figure mutually set for
our household expenses, etc, has never
been exceeded | know that there are no
bills, and bother my head little about
house matters, for by the comfort l and
all receive, well know that the most is
and always has been made of everything,
and my interests and hers are Identical.
During the day, if chance to come
home, find her devoting herself to the
children, taking walks, paying visits
and generally giving them her attention
in preference to anything else. There
are romps and fun; but in babyhood the
loving training began--that when
came home the play must be quiet, and
there must be no "athletics,'' unless
Joined in, which up to date is no uncom-
mon thing for half an hour. They are
well hammered, fairly good, and not one
iota of trouble from one years end to
another.
NO "TIDYING UP" THE DESK.
Being literary man, l have den, in
which is kept my typewriter, papers,
clippings aud all the litter which per-
tains to the craft. These are never
touched. If / leave piece of paper on
the table to-day it will be there month
| from to-day, moved and busted, of course,
but the table will not be "tidied up" AS
an instance, my wife thought box cum
ningly partitioned inside would help me;
and so, with some strips of cardboard
and some strong thread, she made one,
lust what l had been wanting for years
! and did not know it; but she did not put
the papers In it.
| Since my youth have been accustomed
| to take a cold bath every morning, the
water just the temperature it runs from
| the faucet Winter mornings it was, of
| course, rather cold dressing. The first
| thing that happened was curiously
warm dressing robe, of a material / never
| saw equaled for changing warmth and
comfort, and which superseded the ordi-
| nary bath towel material robe as effect
! lively as the electric light has gas in the
public buildings. Then after a space
/ came pair of home knitted wool slip
pers, and l thought my gamut of luxu-
| rious bath room comfort was touched to
| the highest note of Its register. / was
| wrong, for the succeeding winter saw a
! Number carry a pipe from the gas jet and