Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-10-27
Are You a Good Wife?

eyes, do YOU ever wonder whether
he in thinking that the best invest
ment he made in his life was when
he bought you a wedding ring, or
what a fool killer was doing not to
get his number on the day he under
took to be your meal ticket for life?
If you are curious on this subject,
apply these acid tests to yourself:
Have you thrown away the salt
with which you caught your fish?
You baited your hook with good
looks. You were always clean and
fresh and dainty with your hair
combed so becomingly, and your nose
nicely powdered, and you feet and
ankles so trim and neat. Have you
grown sloppy and slovenly and dow
dy? Do you screw your hair up into
a little hard knot, that would make
the Venus de Milo look like scare
crow, because its the easiest way to
get it up? Do you wear run-down-at
the-heels slippers around the house
and consider a much-be-soiled kimo-
rta good enough to adorn yourself
in for a mere husband? 1t takes a
man with a superhuman talent for
loving to keep enamored OF a woman
who looks as if she needed to be sent
to the laundry, and whose kisses
taste like cold cream.
You also baited your hook with
flattery. You made the poor sucker
who nibbled at that alluring tid-blt
believe that you thought he was the
biggest, strongest, handsomest, WIS
est man in the world. When he ex-
pressed an opinion, you appeared to
think it was the utterance of an ora
Gle. You asked his advice and let him
tell you how he would run the world
if he was at the head of things. You
laughed at his sentries and applauded
his jests.
Have you quit burning incense at
his feet? Do you interrupt him In the
midst of his best story to tell him
that the woman next door has got a
new hat? Do you remind him that
yuo raed the joke he has just told
in the column of the funny paper!
Do you openly fout his opinions, and
criticize everything he does, from
the way he has his hair cut to his
pronunciation?
1t must be terrible disllluslonlng
thing to marry woman because you
think you are getting an admlrlng
audience in her, and then find out
that YOU have got a cricket on the
hearth who the president of the
Amalgamated Order of Lady Knock
ers.
So many women never think of
their husbands as anything but their
children's father, a convenience mer-,
cifully ordained by Providence to
supply the wants of Johnnie and
Tommy, and Mary and Janey. He has
no rights where the youngsters are
concerned and if he has to be work
ed to death to indulge them in every
tsinoSsir greedy young hearts
crave, Ill, its a pity, but 1t mas 70
be done. ~AiMEH zee
Are you one Of these all mother
wives? Do you let your husband sit
up alone while you hold the baby's
hand while it goes to sleep until some
other woman begins to hold his hand!
Are YOU merciless in squeezing
money out of him for the children?
Do YOU let him see that he is no real
account in the family, and that your
first thought is for them, not him?
There are NOT many men SO hnmPle,
and with so little self love that they
enjoy knowing that they are nothing
but the cash-register in their homes.
Are you a good house-keeper? No
matter whether you have every other
virtue under the sun, but are a poor
cook and keep messy and untldy
house, you are failure as wife.
It's Just as much a woman's busi..
ness to be thrifty and economical and
spend her husbands money wisely,
as it is his business to make the
money.
What sort of dinner do you sit
YOUR husband down to at night? Did
it come out of paper bags or is 1t the
kind of a meal that man thinks
cheerfully of all the way home? DO
YOU buy finery that you cannot al
ford, or do you keep within your IN
come. A man can't think many nice
loving thoughts of wife when he
realizes that she has sold him into
bondage to milliners and dressmakers
and that his whole life work goes to
their enriching.
Are you a good spoht? Have you
rot the courage to smile and buck
Your You husband up when things go
wrong with him? Do you make him
feel that no matter what happens ne
has got one loyal friend who will
fight with him, back to back, to the
bitter end? Or are you one of the
winners and complainers who are al
ways fretting because they can't
have things like Mrs. Astorbilt and
who take the last bit OF nerve out Of
a man by telling him they don't
know why he can't get along as well
as some other man?
Do you show your husband any ap-