Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-08-09
Suggestions to
Brides and Bridegrooms.

Suggestions TO
Brides and Bridegrooms.
Words of advice to married individuals
have become SO frequent that in many
cases they are stale, Hat and Improbable
The following hints by Dorothy Dix are
50 piQuant, pithy. and to the point, that
all may read and profit thereby.
Let all husbands make up their minds
to give their wives 4 regular allowance
instead OF doing the market money out
to them q penny at time This will
keep them from being glad when you are
dead. Nothing ever really reconcies any
human beng To being financially de-
pendent on another. Women loathe be
ing beggarS just rs much as men do, and
the insurance money consoles many Il
wife for the loss of good husband.
Pay their wives as many compliments
as they did their Sweethearts. Being
married does not destroy a woman's APP
petite for bon-b0ns.
Tell their wives that they appreciate
their services and their sacrifices. Wives
are the. only laborers on earth who work
for their board and clothes, and even a
servant deserves a tip now and then.
DO their parts towards making home
happy. A home is Il vehicle designed for
span to draw, and one horse cannot
pull it out Of the mud.
ANciHtlhteE That WUlie nome Is q WOnl-
ans sphere. ii is not particularly eXcit-
ing and eXhilarating to be shut mp III
the house all day with Il lot of little ty-
rants who are crying and fretting and
humping their noses and yelping moth
err every minute. There is no other
such martyr as mother. and she needs
TO have brightness and change brought
INTO life. One Sunday afternoon nursing
the baby will reduce an able bodied man
TO the verge of nervous prostration.
Think what seven days a week OF it
means and when You go home at night
don't bury yourself in the newspaper
Take your wife out to the theater as
often as you can, and when You can't
talk to her. Entertain her. Tell her the
bright things and the funny things you
have seen and heard down town.
Remember that the children are yours
Just as much as they are hers. and don't
shunt all the responsibility of raising
them on her. Don't make your own
hearthstone the dumping ground for all
your troubles.
Don't forget to tell your wife every day
of your life that you love her. Love is
the coin that pays Il woman for ever
other hardship and sacrifice in life.
Let all wives make up their minds to
keep their little worries and aggravations
to themselves. Husbands have troubles
of their own, and it can't be very com
forting to a man who has wrestled all
day with his own problems to be met
at the front door with Jeremiad of domes-
tic woes.
Use more tact in dealings with their
husbands. Only Il fool dashes herself to
death against stone wall when there is
an easy path around it.
Have forbearance and discretion
enough to refrain from introducing top
les of conversation on which she
knows she and her husband hold diff
fnPnOt lNlonntinu ia IN
front OF Il bull never did anything yet
but stir up trouble.
Cut the arguing habit. Argument is
death to love.
Remember that the daily spat ends in
the divorce court.
Remember that matrimony doesn't
give one license to wear Mother Hub
bards and eat onions. Don't throw away
your bait because you have caught your
fish. He might wriggle off of the hook.
Remember that a prompt and pointed
answer does not turn away wrath.
Remember that ''he" pays the freight,
and is entitled to the very best that the
house can give-the most comfortable
chair the things he likes to eat, the
sweetest smiles, and the tenderest love
and consideration that his wife has in
her repertoire.
Remember that Il wOman's part of the
matrimonial bargain is making Il COM
Portable home If she fails in that she
has defaulted on the contract and de-
serves to be sent to the penitentiary.
Remember that when she married She
did it of her own free viii and accord.
She knew the risks and took them with
her eyes open. and if there have been
trials. and anxietios have come. she has
no right to regard herself as 4 victim and
blame her husband She was lust an
anxious TO marry him as he was to
marry her.
Not to tell her domestic troubles to
anybody not even her mother. Until a
woman gets ready to relate the story of
a husbands misdoeGs III the divorce court
she owes it to her own dignity to keep
silence.
Remember that laugh is lightning
rod that will carry domestic atmospheric
disturbance safely into the earth.
Remember that men like appreciation
just as much as women do. The average
American husband works like a dray
horse from morning to night to support
his family, and when he does not get
even thanks for the sacrifice he makes
he must wonder whatever made him
fool enough to burden himself with n
family.
Remember that tenderness. love, con.
sheraton. gentleness. patience, and
brightness are the qualities that best
adorn a wife They are 0ld-fashiOned
virtues. but the world has never i'm
proved upon them. Use them every day
of your life. and the coming year we
will see a falling off in the divorce bust
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