PRAISE YOUR WIFE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXVII, Issue 4, 6 January 1891, Page 4

PRAISE YOUR WIFE.

Praise your wife, man ; for pity's sate, give her a little encouragement — it 'won't hurt her. She made your home comfortable, your hearth bright and shining, food agreeable — for pity's sate, tell her you thank her, if nothing more. She don't expect it; it vrill make her eyes open wider than they have these ten years, but it will do her good, and you too. There are many women to-day thirsting for words of praise, the language of encouragement. Through summer's heat, through winter's toil, they have drudged uncomplainingly, and so accustomed have their fathers, brothers, and husbands become to their monotonous labours that they look for and upon them as they do the daily rising of the sun, and its daily going down. Home every day may be made beautiful by an appreciation of its holiness. You know, if the floor is clean, manual labour has been performed to make it so. You know, if you can take from your drawer a clean shirt whenever you want it, that somebody's fingers have ached m the toil of making it fresh and agreeable, so smooth and lustrous. Everything that pleases the eye and sense has been produced by constant work, much thought, great care, and untiring efforts, bodily and mentally. It is not that many men do not appreciate these things, and feel a glow of gratitude for numberless attentions bestowed upon them m sickness and m health, but they don't come with a hearty " Why, how pleasant you make things look, wife !" or, •' I'm obliged to you for taking so much pains." They thank the tailor for their " fits ;" they thank a man m a full omnibus who gives them a seat ; they thank a young lady who moves along m a cconcert-roomm — m short, they thank everybody out of doors, because It is Hie custom ; and come home, tip their chairs back and their heels up, and pull out the newspapers; grumble if their wife asks them to take the baby, scold if the fire has gone down, or, if everything is just right, shut their mouths with a snap of satisfaction, but never say, " I thank you." I tell you what, men, young and old, if you do but show ordinary civility to those common articles of housekeeping, your wives, if you ■would give them the hundred-and-sixteenth part of the conrpliments you almost choked them with before you were married, fewer •women would seek for other sources of affection. Praise your wife, then for all the good qualities she has, and you may rest assured that her deficiencies are counterbalanced by your own.