HOME, SWEET HOME.
" Make home a home, aud make it one in every Benaa of the word, " writes a lady correspondent in an American paper. "My husband ia a great smoker ; he love? to play cards, dominoes, and chess ; he is at perfect liberty to smoke in any room in tho house, and I am always ready and willing to join him in the different games. I endeavour in every way to be not only a helpmeet, but a companion to him, and the result has been that I have and enjoy his society ; he prefers spending his evenings at home with me to seeking other society. I cannot understand why women will run the risk of losing their husbands' society and love merely for the sake of satisfying an over-fastidious tasta. If they do not like tobacco, did they objoot to his using it during the days of courtship ? And if they objected then and failed, why did they marry ? If men will not give up such hibita at the solicitations of their sweethearts, it is not, likely they will be persuaded out of them by their wives. Therefore I think it unwisa for a woman to riok her happiness by quarrelling with her husband over a venial fault, the existence and extent of which she knew and perfectly understood before she took upon herself the duties of a wife."
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Otago Witness, Issue 1456, 11 October 1879, Page 23
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231HOME, SWEET HOME. Otago Witness, Issue 1456, 11 October 1879, Page 23
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