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GOOD HUSBANDS.

''Who make the best husbands"
! asked the question once of a girl
who, says Harriet Lemaitre in the
Baltimore Herald, was very devoted
to her own way. and always vowed
she would not marry, because a man
would be such a drawback to her
amusement.
Who make the best husbands" she
answered. why. men in the navy, 1
should say, because they go away on
| three year voya ges."
But that is an opinion that probably
| few other women are prepared to
give.
Women Go not, as a rule, prefer
husbands whom they will see only ct
| friend might have been told that she
would be better off without a husband
at all.
Yet. on the other hand, think wives
viii agree with me that a husband may
/ be at home too much. ! mean that the
man who is always about the house.
| and never goes out for his work or his
| interests. is apt sometimes TO prove d
| little trying.
He sees too much of the working of
i things-in fact. household matters are
| mysteries, in their details, TO men. and
/ it is only the finished and completed
i results that appeal TO them. They are
1 too apt, when they are much al home.
/ to interest themselves in things which
| they have no real concern.
SO the best husbands are generally
| those who leave their households a lit
| tie to themselves. and who have not a
talent for meddling.
A good husband should have a good
I temper Nothing so sets the wheels Of
4 q rri1 ac haa \
/ He makes everybody miserable. The
! woman who is married to a drunkard
| is the most TO be pitied of any wom-
| an that lives, but il she has a sister
/ in adversely ii is the wife with a
| thoroughly ill-tempered husband.
A good husband must be considerate.
| and ready, in some degree. to put him
self into his wife's place. He must
| remember that she is weaker than
| himself. and that many of the cares
| and troubles that seem TO him foolish
| are heavy and real trials to her. He
! must look upon his wife as something
more than just the woman who keeps
his house and orders his dinners; he
must bring some Of the romance and
| poetry of his counting days into his
| married life and keep il there
He should be proud of his wife, and
| fond of her and like her company bet
ter than that Of anyone else. He
should study her little tastes and fan
cies, and not laugh al them. He should
| think il a greater pleasure 10 give her
| pleasure than to secure il for HIM
self; and he should treat her with the
| respect he used to show her when they
| were engaged.
But, above all, 10 make a good hus-
band. a man should have had a good
mother. Not only is she the standard
| by which he measures other women.
but his treatment Of her is generally
the key TO his treatment of a wife.
/ wonder how many mothers think
OF that when their boys are in the
| nursery ] wonder how many of them
! remember that they are training a fu-
| ture husband for some other woman,
and that il rests greatly In their hands
whether or not she is 90 be happy
! wife or a miserable one7
II we sll realized that how much
less we would hear OF unhappy mar
( riages and women dissatisfied with
their lot There IL only one conclusion:
] The good mother trains her son 70 30