The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-07-19

Others spend too many
office hours, or hours when they ought
to be on the household exchange, in
social pleasures and outside interests.
A strict attention to home business
on the part of woman usually results
in happy household unless she makes
the fatal mistake Of managing every
other branch in the home excepting
the man! There are two motives in
managing man: One is to manage
him to ones own selfish ends, the other
is to use tact and discretion to the end
Of making better and happier man of
him.
"Cynics say that women never learn
by experience. Anyway most of us
know wives who, out of "pure cussed-
ness," continue day in, day out, for
quarter Of a century the one practice
that they know will exasperate the
partner of their joys and sorrows to
the point Of homicide. A boy of Is
killed his sister with a hatchet. Ar
rested Immediately after the deed, he
said in extenuation, She wouldn't be
lying there if she hadn't nagged.'
Which is the philosophy of the man.
agement Of man in a nutshell.
"People rarely quarrel over the large
and important issues of life. But they
will fight to the death about the things
that don't matter. Sensible, rational
couples with grown-up families have
bickered since the first week of their
marriage over some trifling detail that
they would laugh to scorn if they
heard the people next door quarreling
about it. In most families there is
some small bone of discord, which crops
up again and again at every meal-a
mean contemplate cause of strife that
none agree to bury decently once and
for all. Between husband and wife
some petty difference gradually grows
which touches each on the raw when
ever it appears with Jack-in-the-box
regularity. A tactful, womanly man.
agement in the early stages would pre-
vent the stupendous growing power Of
these matrimonial bogies.
"The new woman asks why her sex
should do all the forbearance. Simply
because nature has made the province
Of home-making the feminine end of
life's business. Goodness knows the
modern man works hard enough for
his living in the rough scrimmage of
commercial competition. Married wo-
men are relieved of the brunt and strife
of business life and the responsibility
of paying the rent. Maybe mans
temper is little Short when he comes
home from work. No doubt he has
faced 20 men with short tempers and
small patience in the course of a busi-
ness day. His wife can eternally face
one; and it is the privilege of her part
nership to soothe and manage a tired
man after hard day spent in the tur-
moil of city.
''It is easy to manage a man if you
let him have his own way on half a
dozen small points. If you interfere
in these you will have to take back
seat in the matrimonial coach. MAN
age him in regard to some idiotic little
trihes light as air, and you may make
him your willing and admiring slave
for all time. Man is an easy-going
mechanism ON the whole so long as he
is handled with care and consideration
in the small things of life.
"That woman who prides herself on
always 'blurting out everything in
the course of domestic councils must
take her place at the bottom of the
matrimonial class, for she has never
learned the A B c of her wifely pro-
fession. 1t is we'll to remember that
though it may be good for woman's
nature to be open, like that of clock
face, it is not desirable to carry the
comparison further by telling all she
knows
"On which precept perhaps hang all
the law and the prophets with regard
to the noble art Of the management of