For Women FOR EASTER BRIDES

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 70, 23 March 1940, Page 3 (Supplement)

For Women FOR EASTER BRIDES

MARRIAGE is the largest business in the world! We invest our lives as well as our money, and we want the greatest returns on our investment. Why not make a real effort to beat the divorce racket? Here are twelve sure rules that will guide you past the big obstacles in marriage: 1. The first year, when you're getting to know each other, have a monthly check-up, in which you both agree to tell the other about the little things lie dries that are irritating. Promise not to get sore, but endeavour to change the faults. (They may be rattling your sou]), or leaving wadded damp towels in the bathroom.) Do this some night when you're feeling gay, and you'll iron out a lot of trouble. 2. When you each want to do something different, draw lots and abide by your luck! Be a sport! 3. Don't nag him about fixing things around the house, like the leaky faucet. Have a handy pad in a place where it will remind you both when you see it, and write down needed jobs! You'll find a note about sewing on some buttons! 4. Don't bawl each other out while you're still sore. Wait a day and talk it over quietly. He'll see reason, and you'll see his side when you cool off. 5. Don't ask about his day at the office. He wants to forget it. If ho

Twelve Rules To Help You Stay Happily Married

doesn't, and tells you on his own, look ; really interested. He'll even listen and be interested in your affairs. (i. Don't tell him at dinner about the grocer and the cleaning woman. He has troubles of his own; the house is your job. Take ten minutes a day'to read a worth-while article or piece of fiction —and discuss it at. dinner with him. See how he'll admire you; incidentally if you talk 'about what you've read you'll remember it and be able to carry on a company conversation so easily that lie will lie proud of you. 7. Try to get home before he does. Men hate to come home to an empty house. If you work, manage at least to have the table set and a kettle boiling. See how quickly he'll come into the warm kitchen to help. 8. Let him pick out a hat or dress for you once in a while. He'll like the most expensive things and will pay for 'em and be proud of his choice and you—whereas if you picked 'em out he might crab about the cost. 9. If he admires another woman, say something complimentary about her. Women make their husbands dwell on other women by. saying catty things

about them. A man will stick up for, the underdog, and lie lias to think about her while he's doing it! 10. When he brings unexpected guests home to dinner, don't groan. Jlake the best of it, even if you do have to add canned vegetables to the stew. Nothing gets a man peeved quicker than to invite company, and then have his wife let him down just when he wants to be proud of her. 11. Don't meet him at the door to bawl him out when he's late for dinner. Most likely he can't help it, and he's extra tired, and expecting you to jump on him! When you don't, he thinks you're a paragon! After a day or two ask him if he'll 'phone you when he's late. He'll remember next time because you were decent about it! 12. And now for the most important rule of all! Never go to sleep without making up a quarrel! It's easy to say you're sorry in the dark. If you don't make tip that first night it's harder and harder to stick to your side, because you both are ashamed to admit you are wrong—then after a while you don't seem to care, and the Divorce Dragon has you. Stick these rules in your mirror, and watch them work!