Hints to Wives.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 995, 27 March 1891, Page 4

Hints to Wives.

For a home to be truly happy, it should possess a peaceful atmosphere. If a wife wants to realise the highest form of domestic bliss, and to receive the same unlimited adoration that she had from that individual who was her lover ia the days gone by, one of her chief endeavours should be to retain it by deserving it. Perhaps the first essential hint to wives is to understand how to keep the household expenses well withiD the sum she knows is set apart weekly for that purpose. She should inaugurate and maintain a system that will let her husband’s pockets rest in peace, so as to avoid those ‘ nasty jars ’ men complain of when their wives worry them for money at most unexpected times, and for—to the husband most unreasonable expenditure. Men worry at times greatly over those trifling, teasing expenses of which each single expense is small, but of which the sum total is comparatively enormous.

The next hint for the wife is to remember daily that a well fed man is not only happier and healthier, but is more easily managed, and altogether far more amiable than a poorly nourished specimen of the genus biped. Let the wife arrange her table and

her cooking with the knowledge that the quickest and the surest way to gain a man’s heart is through hia stomach, The next hint is—don’t worry the husband. He has probably as much worry as he wants in his business. He is Dot prepared for an extra dose when he comes home. When hia work is done he wants first —a feed—-and then perfect rest. See that he gets both. Don’t annoy him—if he is a sensitive man—by having the honse in a mixed condition. Let each article have its own appointed place, and see that everything is in its place. If the husband is a smoker, and after dinner wants his soothing pipe, don’t let him worry by having to search half over the house for it. Let the pipe, tobacco and matches be in a Bpot where he knows where to find them. It would be a pool* sort of a husband that would not appreciate these efforts, and meet them more than half way. Another hint is for the wife to exercise as much courtesy io the husband as she did in the courting days. Don’t imagine that a man dislikes the many small attentions you pay him before marriage. In those days to him you were more than a mere woman—you are a personified angel. Keep up that illusion in his mind after you are married, and your home will be like an angel’s—a perfect heaven. Dora.