Lexington gazette. [volume] (Lexington, Va.) 1871-1962, 1900-08-01
ADVICE TO HUSBANDS.


she is well dressed she reflects credit
on you, and the casual passerby may
think, when be meets you escorting her
oft some fine Saturday or Sunday, that
she is your sweetheart. II you have
good taste, choose Der dresses, and
decide upon the style in which they
M to be made up. If you have never
studied the subject and no not know
rod from terra tia, you had batter
leave her clothes severely alone, Or in
sist that she stick to black and white.
Persuade her to wear bonnets; they
lcok much more married. And You do
not want her-when you are not there
to be mistaken for one Of d ana'S dam
sells.
If her "get up" doesn't snit you,
don't wait to mention it until you are
we'll on your way somewhere. Screw
up your courage and brave the matter
out in the hall. Never mind If she
relieves the corporation of little
street sweeping; it may be a dirty
habit, bnt it looks graceful. Do not
remark unfeelingly, when she COM
plains that she hates going down hill,
"ILat's because you wear your boots
two sizes too small" Forget all you
ever learned when boy at the art
school about sandals as the ideal for
f otwear.
Abstain from going to your club
every night; it isn't fair to take
woman away from comfortable hom2,
where she had pleaty of society, and
having established her in suburban
home, with damp plaster en- the walls,
leave he, night after night to weep
over her fancy work, aad wish she was
single.
Return home, on the nights when
you make merry with your friends, at
respectable hour. 10 come back
with the milk is not duly realizing your
responsibilities as the head of house
hold. If you creep upstairs in you r
stockined feet in the chill and early
dawn, do not think to elude Nemesis
by putting back the lands of the clock
to little past midnight; your wife is
sure 10 wake, and though the prevari-
eating grandfather" strikes one, the
dlgmal echo of the milkman's cry will
condemn you.
Bring her ban'h OF flowers every
Saturday when you return from the
office; she'll be 50 delighted you re-
membered her. Even if you area busy
nan, don't let her birthday go past
with put giving her some token of afec-
tion-a book, or bangle, a muff or q
wcIkbox-anything, 1t really doesn't
mater what, so long as it is something
other women have and she has not.
When she is ill in bed and you go
to see her, don't pace the room a, if it
WAS a quarterback, with thick, heavy
boots or ones that squak. Resist your
natural inclination to ask, injuredly,
how longs she's going to stop tn s1e.
When the doctor says she is t. be kept
quiet, don't play comic opera music on
the Ipiano downstairs with one finger
or practice your old singing exercises.
AS soon as she is convalescent take her
for drive, but do not precipitate her
into a ditch or collide with watering
cart
Comfort her when she is distress ed,
even if you cannot quite make out what |
all the trouble is about; stroke Ter
hair, pat her or the back, tell her to |
cheer up, and trust to understanding
the difficulty by and by. If she wants
to cry, don'tstop Ter; let her get it 0vel;
1t will do her good. Only don't ,e-
mark when she's coming around, 'Now,
go and look what fright you have |
made of yourself" Sympathize with
her with her when the housemaid gives |
warming and the cook skedaddles in |
the night,
Don't fly into temper every time |
she mentions her old sweetLearts, or
remark sarcastically you "wish to good
ness she had married one OF them
Listen 70 the little list, aud if it gets
more than you can bear, a'ly men
ton your own. Don't storm like |
March hurricane if she walks down the
street with another man or values
with a former lover. Trust her and |
let her amuse herself.