The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-12

leads to some sort of an attack with
my. husband is when he. as mild a man
as eyer paid bills or dismissed tipsy
cooks. began to, excuse me, Miss Emil
". but 10 damn things Then / knew
John was i'll. and the crisis came when
he cot into a perfectly towering rage
with the end of a palm leaf that
tickleG his nose while he sat reading
mis- Sunday paper. l apologized for
and removed the palm, and when the
raeking headache developed l lightly
suggested the hot weather, touch OF
possible malaria and invited the doctor
in to tea.
well. the long and short of it was
John spent four days in bed, and I
bundled off the children and covered
myself with glory trying to keep my
lord in spirits, and at the same time
in his room. We never once let on il
was measles, that would have hurt his
dignity, SO the doctor and l talked on
basis of incipient typhoid, brought
on by Cuba. and overwork, and
alarmed him into obedience, while /
kept up his courage by wondering at
his superb constitution. Poor Jack. he
was scared into fits at the sight of his
temperature, for, man-hke, once per-
suaded he is i'll, he glooms over the
future, and l could easily have given
him a serious setback by watching
him with panied, anxious eyes, by tip
toeing around the room, tickling his
poor pulse, pleading with him to eat.
hushing all normal, familiar sounds
and begging him every ten minutes to
tell me how he felt.
How to Manage Sick Man.
Treatment of that sort drives a
man either in a rage. out of his bed,
! or puts him into alternate nervous
chiIls and fevers of sheer fright. The
proper nursing for ones husband is to
make his sick room look cheerful and
agreeable, walk around as If there was
| nothing to be afraid of and speak in
a pleasant, buoyant tone of voice.
! Gloat over his splendid resistive
powers when he gets down in the
mouth. for no man likes his constitu-
| ton to be impugned any more than his
/ honesty or his courage, and by prov
/ ing to him that, though il suffers ter
rible strains, it comes out always
ahead, you can fiatter and stimulate
/ him to his great benefit When the
time comes for the nasty dose allow
him to dictate it with all the naughty
words in his vocabulary Tt helps him
ne thinks, and then, when it goes dowr
with a whoop and a gurgle and more
!
| sure him you don't see how he does it
! that being a woman you would faint
lover the ordeal, and then he lies back
feeling himself strong, even in hi:
| weakness.
''As to feeding a sick husband, !
don't think there is a bigger mistake
than to poster him with requests as tC
what he would like, to wall at his Loss
Of appetite and TO ger up untempting
invalid dishes. Men are sociable crea.
lures, and if John is taking any soliC
food at all / dine and lunch and tea
| and breakfast with him. If l eat with
him he doesn't feel as if he were being
dieted. and, TO tell you the truth, bar.
ring a few really Injurious things tina
! the doctor may put on the menu ex
purgatorious, / always feed my sicl
man on the best and most various tn,
market can affOrd.I, We've had som,
really jolly meals on the Counterpart.
The last and most precious sacrifict
a wife can make TO her i'll or conVa
lescing lord is to yield her point in ar
gument. Now, 1 don't mean a high ant
noble fortitude when he grows alb
surdly angry over some foolish trifie
or a panied Christian silence when h
cOntradicts or stiffens himself to re
fuse his medicine. That attitude irri
tates, but l mean when he takes som
strange but harmless. notion in hi
head. contrive IL possible to let hin
have his way, and when anything mus
be talked over yield 70 him the ric
and rare delight of accepting his view
Yield slowly, for he will want to thor
oughly enjoy the sweets of victory, bu
yield nevertheless. and in after day
you can resume your old, original oh
stinate position and he won't contes
1t with you"
Its a pity" remarked Miss Emil
Lonely, as the lunch gong roare
through the hail, that you couIdn'
give some of that really sensible ad
vice of yours to our little friend GU
there, moping so tearfully under tn
lawn tent"
"Oh, she will find it out by and by,
assured Mrs. j. NJ. Bliss, rising wit
hungry alacrity. There is no schoc
for sharpening woman's wits like toin
ing the big class in matrimony."
EMILY HOLT.