Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-12-28
DONTS FOR WIVES.

lovely times" you used to have
when you were s'free and SINGLE" or
your husband may wish that you We're
SO at the present time, and it is sad
| day III the life of any wife when her
| husband cherishes that opinion re-
| garding her. 1t is sadder day still
| for him
Don't treasure up all of your daily
trials for 20 ur husbands ears when
he comes home at night.
Don't tell him how bad the children
have been, or how hateful the kitchen
girl has acted, or how the stove
wouldn't draw, or how the clothesline
broke with the weeks washing on it,
or how the baby has cried all day, or
how badly the ironing has been done,
Or how the milkman left milk that
soured in an hour, or how little ice
the iceman left for 10 cents, or how
the grocer has sent bad eggs for good
ones. Don't add all these things to
the trials your husband has borne all
day. He has had his trials, you may
exception to the general rule, he has
not said anything at all about them
to you.
Don't "nag" at him all of the time.
That is the hatefulest little word 1
know of, and and the "nagging''
practice is one of the most vicious.
Much should be forgiven husband
who has a "nagging" wife, one whose
tongue is never still and whose every
word is of fault finding or complaint.
Such a woman is blot on the fair
face of creation, and her husband has
much to bear. Whatever else, you
may do, don't nag your husband.
Don't compare him to other men to
his disadvantage. Don't tell him that
you "do wish' he were like this wo-
mans or that woman's husband.
Nothing can fatter him so much as
your openly expressed conviction
that you have the best and kindest
and handsomest husband in all the
world. No doubt you told him SO
once, and even if you think differently
now, nothing but harm can come of
your telling him so.
Don't go around slipshod and SLOW
emily before your husband. He may
not say anything about it, but it will
have a demoralizing effect upon him
all the same. Don't come to the
breakfast table with your hair in
crimping pins because you are going
down town later in the day and the
crimp will all come out if you take
your hair down before breakfast.
Your husband wont see you when
you are down town, and he does see
you now, and wouldn't you rather
look your best before him than be-
fore any other man in the world? The
time has been when you would have
been mortified to death' had he
caught you with your hair in crimp-
ing pins.
Don't ask him to be both master
and mistress of the house. Don't ask
him what you shall have for dinner or
burden with all of the family market
SApOCU It'll ONSESOS
your servants or to do things, that
you, as mistress of your own home,
ought to do. He probably has his
hands and his mind full keeping up
his end of the row.
Don't look for perfection in your
husband He has not found perfec
ton in you, has he? Perfect men are
SO rare in this world that if one could |
be found he would be worth his
weight in gold as a dime museum
and perfect women are
equally rare. If your husband is "as
good as the average" be thankful |
that he is no worse, and bear in mind
that it rests largely with you whether
he grows better or worse.
Of course nearly all of these
''Don'ts" apply to husbands as we'll
as to wives Men are no better than
women, nor as good-they have their
failings by the score, but don't in
crease their shortcomings by showing
them the weak side of your own
characters.
Here is a diamond, here piece OF charcoal.