The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-07-23
THE HOME ITS PROBLEMS AND INTERESTS
RESOLUTIONS OF THE SENSIBLE
TWENTIETH CENTURY BRIDF
To Make Her Husbands Home the Dearest, Sweet
est Place on Earth to Him.

/ To do my best. by all means. great
and small. to help saving. adding to
or spending our income. if from the very
first you will give me your confidence
about your possessions, and If you will
be always entirely candid with me as TO
the size and shape of your income,
2. To try my very best to let you
speak the first cross word If you will
remember to let me speak it.
3. Not to get up n violent headache or
n dangerous tOothache every time you
plan to go on a camp hunt or fishing
excursion if you Will take with me an
occasional outing. though IL be an after
noon long OF only a mile wide.
4. To let you praise your mothers
housekeeping as much as ever you
choose if you will never mfavOrably
compare the way your house is kept OF
your table served with the keeping of
the house or the serving Of the table of
any other woman than your mother.
5. To let one room or one corner Of
the house be always undisturbably yours
in which TO pile up in your own fashion
all the papers and brushes and books
and neckties and guns and relics you
want. if you will take some interest in
the affairs Of home and viii give lit
tie of your spare time and your brains
and your heart to helping IN the making
Of 1t a home.
G. To let you read your paper at break
fast every morning II at every dinner
You viii lay aside outside cares ana
thoughts and be as companionable ana
cheerful as If there We're company 20
dinner.
Z. To give you full permission to love
your mother and all your relatives as
much as you ought. if YOU Will never Iet
anyone IN your presence discuss my
faults, unless / am prtse.-t, too.
S. To let you smoke, II you care 70,
anywhere in your house, ana never
once TO pitch out of window. at the emu
OF the tOngs and my longest arm, your
pipe, though II be one a century old and
| as strong as Samson and Hercules ana
| Atlas all combined.
g During the dreadful, inevitable an
I nual upheaval which strikes in the
spring every well-ordered household, TO
/ have some room always looking Ike
/ itself. so that you may have one saIe
retreat II you will not look too martyr
| like about the other rooms or too
! savage.
/ 10 To bear IN silence a good many
medium sized headaches, If you will
show some sympathy for very big one
when IL comes.
| IL To keep myself on speaking terms
with current events cOmpaniOnable to
/ you. comprehensive to your friends
when they call ana COnNeTSlDte on u
4 few other themes than servants and
/ cobwebs and dress, If you will read
with me an occasional book not for any
mental improvement but for anything
but pleasure OF amusement.
! p To put aside any intimacy / may
have formed. If il interferes with your
4 happiness. not TO let any woman get in
/ innate enough in our house to come In
I by the back door or TO hear me mention
any Of your possible foibles or weak
I nesses II you will remember that your
/ wife needs at least a fourth az many
| evenings at the play or the concert or
the lecture. and quite rs many evenings
| OF your society, as your sweetheart did.
/ 13. Not 10 pry into your secrets II you
! want any, and never to mention 70 out
! siders your affairs. II you Will listen
! 10 the secrets / want to tell you.
/ u To dress as well as home as ycI do.
! j.. To do my OutmoSt best TO make
] home seem to you the sweetest place
| you have seen for many a day, II you
! Will lot me know in some way that you
think about me every day that you are
gone. and show me that you have looked
/ forward % your return by bringing me
/ some mcmeUtO Of your journey.
/ l6. Not 20 worry you with all the petty
i bitches in the household machinery, II
{ you will furnish the golden oil TO keep
/ the household machinery In running or
de-
| T. To try my best 10 become a rea-
i sOnabie being. II you Will sometimes lend
an ear 10 my intuitions.