RULES FOR HUSBANDS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 141, 14 June 1879, Page 4

RULES FOR HUSBANDS

Don't think when you have won a wife thafc you have got, ako, a slave., Don't think that your wife has less; feeling than your sweetheart. Her relationship to you is simply changed — I not her nature. Don't think that you* can dispense with all the little civilities! of life towards her on marriage. Sbe. appreciates these things quite as much as other women. Don't be gruff and rude at home. Had you been that sort! of fellow before marriage the probabilities are that you would be sewing on your buttons still. Don't make your wife feel incumbent on you by giving! her grudgingly. What she needs give as cheerfully aa if ifc were a pleasure for you to do so. She will feel much ; better, and so wiil you. Don't meddle wifch the affairs of the house under her charge. You have no more right fco be' poking your nose into the kitchen than she has fco walk into your place of business and give directions to your employeg. Don't find fault wifch her extrava-i ganee in ribbons, &c , while you waste money on cigars, tobacco, whisky, &c! Don't leave your wife at home lo nurse on the score of economy, while you go to theatres and spend money at billiards. Don't bolt your supper, and then hurry off to spend your evenings away from your wife. Before marriage you couldn't spend your evenings enough with her. Don't prowl aboufc till midnight, wasting your time in culpable idleness, leaving your wife lonely at home to brood over your neglect and her disappointment. Don't think that the woman whom you have solemnly promised to "love, cherish, and protect " becomes a servant for you as her part of the contract;. Don't think thafc board and clothes are sufficient for all that a wife does for you. Don't expect a wife to love and honour you if yoju prove to be a brute, and unworthy 6f her love and honour. Don't caress your wife in public and then snarl and

prowl at her in private. This proves thafc you are a hypocrite. Don't wonder that your wife is nofc as cheerful jM_she used to be when she labours irom ear] v morn till late at night to pander to the comfort and caprice of a selfish pig who haa nofc soul enough to appreciate her.