The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-07-19
MANAGEMENT OF HUSBANDS
HOW WIVES MAY MAKE MARRIED LIFE
SUCCESS.

"Lucy Grey" in the last number of
the Kansas City "Independent ad-
dresses sensible little sermon to 'sthis
years crop Of young Brides" and tells
them as follows chow to make married
life the success it should always be-:
"June is the month of brides, and
Kansas City is now witnessing the
usual rich harvest. 1t is to these
brides-happy- faced creatures in a
perpetual futter-that l want to ad-
dress myself. The average young ma
irons library is invariably overstock-
ed with fat cook books, volumes on
babies, essays on gardening, helpful
household hints, ETC., but never, by
any chance, little brochure on the
management of men.
"Man, the central figure of the de-
mestic department, is boycotted on the
family bookshelf His management
and care-often most difficult and in
tricate matter-has been left for the
bride to try her prentice hand on.
Hundreds of girl pilots wreck their
domestic barks on the unsupported
shoals on the honeymoon voyage.
cit is easy to manage man when
once you are married to him is the
first and fatal proposition laid down
by inexperienced girls who find their
6ances restive and inclined to kick
under the tight feminine reins of an
engagement. Older and wiser women
know that it is much easier to manage
a man when you are not married to
him.
mo it is most assuredly woman's
province to manage her husband and
make the best Of the man and the mar
riage ordained on her by the fates pre-
siding over these matters. That is
she was mainly created for, though Of
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"After all, it is such clumsy ,inartis-
tic proceeding to take part in turning
out the ill-sorted, pickering marriages
of which there are far too many exam
Piles nowadays. 1t is such misera-
bic confession Of failure on the very
threshold of life for woman to admit
that she cannot get on with her hus-
band If young man engaged in
business falls into the bankruptcy
court his friends may be sorry for him,
but there is invariably flavor Of con-
tempt mixed with their pity. In the
greater number of cases the failure has
resulted from neglect of work or lack
OF common sense. He is bad mana
ger
"Now it is woman's special busi-
ness to make her marriage success.
OF course in marriage, as in commerce,
there must always be a small percent
age of absolutely unavoidable failures
allowed for. But in nine cases out of
ten marriages would turn out comfor-
tably and happy enough if there res
pective partners invested as much en-
ergy and interest in the marriage bus.
mess as they put into the affairs of
Literary or country club. Many modern
women strive to become golf or tennis
champions. Why are no wife cham
pionships opened up to competition !?
1t is much easier to be prize 'putter'
than to be an artist in the management
Of men. If submit articles to an ed
itor and subsequent public it is clear
ly my business to please both. Simi-
larly if l marry a husband it is equally
my business to carry the partnership
through to happy and comfortable
end.
"Now the marriage business is al
most entirely in feminine hands.
Women are very much in the habit of
complaining that many professions and
callings are closed to them because Of
their feminine gender. They forget
that the central and leading national
business Of marriage and home making
is left largely to women. 1t is very
remarkable that woman, who trains
and cducates the entire family Of citi-
zens, should covet the post of police
man or cultivate an ambition to direct
municipal drainage schemes.
"The responsibility Of making or
marring a marriage rests almost en-
tirely with the feminine partner. A
man devotes eight or ten daily hours
to office or shop, for it is his end ofthe
business to keep things at home going,
his province, pleasing or otherwise, to
pay the bills. The wife's end Of the
business is to manage him and make
the home happy and flourishing. She
ought to put as much energy and vested
capital into her department as the man
exercises in his business. Unless she
is prepared to do this the woman part
ner in the matrimonial firm is not
pla ying fair. The dividends of home
happiness will not pan out unless a
woman invests all her capital in the
firm; and this capital must be shrewd-
ly divided among the several conflict
ing branches OF the domestic concern.
"Some women back the babies too
heavily and have nothing left to invest
in the man Of the house. Others de-
vote too much time and funds to dust
ing and spring cleaning and take too