Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1909-12-10
ACT UGLY AT HOEs
|. A WORD, ABOUT FRETFuL AN
FAuLT:FINDINe HusBANco.
Too Many Men Vent on the Family
Circle the irritation They Have
Been Restraining All Day
Necessity for "Growiery."

Men are apt to fall into careless
habits at home They thoughtlessly
perhaps, speak sharp words tina
strike and stick and sting like arrow
in the heart.
They are not so abroad. They are |
thoughtful to other women, and smil |
their sweetest smile. But at home
too often. they are careless in speecl |
and unmindful of the effect of theil
words
They are perturbed with the mean
ness of men they have to do With in
business, and they come home fretful
and, without thinking, vent on the
home circle the irritation they have
been restraining all day.
Did you cook the fish | bought?'
said a husband coming home at night
Yes, my dear"
Il should like to know how you
cooked it. I'll bet any money you
have spoiled it for my eating
Taking OFF the covert thought so
| Why in the world did you fry it?"
| My dear, l thought you preferred
it fried"
You thought no such thing. Why
didn't you boil it?"
The last time we had fish boiled
it aud you said you liked it fried. Bat
have boiled some"
And she lifted cover, showing the
shoulder of cod nicely boiled.
"A pretty dish, this!" he exclaimed
Boiled fish, chips and porridge. II
you had not been the stupidest woman
you would>have made chowder."
She Immediately placed before him
a dish containing an excellent chow
favorite dish
"Fayorite dish, indeed" growled
the grumbler. | would rather have a
boiled frog"
This was a common expression of
his and had been anticipated, and SO
she uncovered big dish, and there
was large frog indeed
Mrs. Carlyle said of her Thomas:
IF he would only be satisfied! But
| ! have had to learn that when he
does not find fault he is pleased. and
that has to content met"
Mrs. Carlyle described his home.
coming. She had everything ready
for him-his dinner, his armchair, ev'
erything as comfortable as possible
| He arrived and she says:
After he had just greeted me, what
do you think he did? He walked tC
the window and shook it and asked
Where's the wedge of the window?
And until he found that pleased wedge
nothing would content him. He sale
the window would rate and spoi
all"
Jean Paul Richter save: Distance
Injuries love less than nearness."
People are more polite when they
r do not see too much of zach other.
There Is generally greater harmon.
when a husbands duties necessitat,
r his remaining several hours of tn
day from home.
To the husband the wife will appea
more lovely after such absence thai
t if he had been idle about the ipnus
IS all day.
L Let the husband have den, or
N "growlery," to which he may III
" when the animal sbon's he ma'lSc
y dangerous" and let the wife Nhe
| she gets Sulky so 10 hef pooaoi
~ from the French term boulder" c
Is '.sulking ROOM" an apartment as net
essary in every well-regulated HON
le as bathroom, and so In the grow
N cry and the "boudoir" may be ALL
r. waited the very much married" fee
II ing.
All hope abandon We who ente
le here" might appropriately be II
as scribed over the door where preside
" a growing husband or fault-findin
nagging wife-and husband-nagging
IN as bad as INTERCHANGEABLE
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