Know When to Accept

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12453, 22 May 1926, Page 15

Know When to Accept

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“When John and I were first married, he wanted to buy me all sorts of luxuries, and I refused because I thought it was wrong to permit the extravagance. Now, although he is far better off he never suggests anything of the kind. I am sorry that I did not encourage him in the first instance 1” Thus a wife whose husband is sadly deficient in those small courtesies of giving that make such an incalculable difference to women’s lives. She, like many other women in the early days of marriage, did not know when to accept. Her constant refusal of gifts, outings, luxuries, etcetera, had the logical effect of dissuading her husband from preferring them: Possibly he vented his instinct for giving by bestowing such attentions on other women. If he did, one should not he too severe on him. Most men like to think of themselves in the role of benefactor; so why not let them practise in the right direction ? Many a woman whose lot in.life has been less prosperous in later years than in the early ones has had cause to regret that she did not avail herself of the good things which life offered her then. One can be over-cir-cumspect. A little of the “Hang tho expense!” snirit is admirable in a man. Let the wife be careful how she frustrates its benign influencel

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