The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-31
DON'T BE YOUR HUSBANDS
VALET, WISE WOMAN URGES
She Gives the Engaged Girl Some Advice About Surrendering the
Best Chair, and Other Little Sacrifices.
BY ADA LYNN.

f<-HEYRE enough to make a girl swear to live in single blessedness
all her life, these glmpses she occasionally gets into tn Ives of
the married people around her." remarked the Girl in the Big Chair
closing hr book with a bang IN looking vindtctvay at the peting rain out
side.
The wise Woman closed her book too. why, dear?" she asked, in tones
family curious. what a speech for IN engaged girl to make"
Cant help it, It's the sad TRUTH" said the Girl in the Big Chair, with a
shrug "Tve been reviewing all my married friends in my mind. n can't
think of m couple IS happy as they ought to be-. Look at Bessie Blake, for
instance. She's a lave to lei husband, and. in spte of the fact that she adors
him. l do moi believe she is over happy Why he's almost orgotten no" 10
joke, as she used to be h jonet girl of Is ALL
"Now all she thinks of is Bens comfort. and she's forgotten IL about max
ing herself look pretty IT taking a. interest in anything Deliver m from maj
riage if will transform me as quickly nd completely as it has changed her'
"h, my dear, my dear exclaimed the Wise Woman, why d o not1
profit by suha mistake IS Bessi is making. instead Of deciding tina there's 10
that in a way it is all her W fault? She always as paid her husband too
much attention. Even in the days Of their engagement she found it a pleasure
to wait Oh him, trying to fulfil his wishes eve before they were uttered. Now,
after three years of marriage, she has developed into a drudge and he has
waxed fat and complacent unde her inistrauons.
"a woman is a fool who begins married life by waiting o her husband"
went OIL the Wise Woman with a smle which suggested reconectons II Early
struggles. IF The does that she is bound to wait OF him all his he. lust THINK
Of the number OF women who have to get up early in the morning tic light thu
fire. while their husbands lie in bed until the house is warm. Think OF the
thousand an m things they have forced upon themselves in the a of
duties which by their very nature should be their husbands.
Husbands are naturally selfish. They 10 lot realize how completely they
play the Sultan let when their wives give them the chance. They take the
services of their better halves without ever thinking of them IS services.
"My DEAR III concluded, when yu get married make u your mind to
the room when he comes IN, let him take another. Who Ia a better right to it
than you?
BE his comrade and heIpmeet but do lot be his vart. Let him get his own
newspapers and slippers, md BIO SURF to make him bring in the coal and wood.
AS mi as you demand attention you'll get it, ant nj longer. Take my advice
and you'll be happy III our life. I'm only expoundlng my W system, and I
pride myself IN tho fact that it's worked out pretty well"
I'll think 1t over" dcmurey announced the Girl lin the Big Chair. Seeing
that our wedding day is st anyway"
"Wen" and tn yes of the Wise Woman opcned wide "why all this taK?'
"oh just conversation" was thu reply Of the Girl in the Big Chair.