TOUCHY HUSBANDS.

Otago Witness, Issue 1191, 26 September 1874, Page 21

TOUCHY HUSBANDS.

Women have their faults, it is true, and very provoking ones they sometimes are ; but if we would all learn, men and women, that with certain virtues, which we all admire, are always coupled certain disagreeables, we might make up our minds more easily to accept the bitter with the s^weet. For instance, every hus-band*-..'we t -Relieve, delights in a cleanly, well-ordered house j free from dust, spots, and unseemly stains ; the painstaking machinery necessary to keep it so he never wishes to see, or seeing, too often forgets to praise. If, then, his wife, true to her feminine instincts toward cleanliness, gently reminds him, when he comes home, that he has forgotten to use the door-mat before entering the sitting-room on a stormy day, let him reflect, before giving her a lordly, impatient, ungracious "pshaw !" how the reverse of the picture would suit him — viz., a slatternly, "easy" woman, whose apartments are a constant mortification to him in the presence of visitors.

It is a poor return, when a wife has made everything fresh and bright, to be unwilling to take a little pains to keep it so, or to be properly reminded if forgetful on these points, upon which many husbands are unreasonably "touchy," even while secretly admiring the pleasant results of the vigilance of the good housewife.

Speaking of the Crown Princess of Germany, the London correspondent of the Australasian says — " She has grown very stout, and looks older than she really is ; huh she is so unaffected that her face always pleases, and she has all the intelligence of expression which characterised her father, the Prince Consort, without his stiffness and reserve. Her children are all very plain ; indeed, the Queen's grandchildren have not much beauty among them, except the second son and the second daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales. Prince George Frederick (whose namesake won ,the Derby), and the Princess Maud of Wales are beautiful children, with glorious blue eyes, and a fair, share of their sweet mother's gentle and dignified grace."

The London correspondent of the Australasian remarks :—": — " TheJadies have had their field day in London, 'and spoken, with the oratory for which \they are becoming famous, in supporter Mr. Forsyth's bill for giving the suffrage to householding women. Miss Cobb replied with some vehemence to Professor Goldwin Smith's attack in Macmillan's Magazine, "the knight of the rueful countenance," as she called him; and she asked, ' if Aphra Ben wrote bad dramas, was she worse than Charles 11. or Louis XV. , who acted them?' The ladies' cause has lost an admirable woman 'and a bold champion in the Viscountess Amberley, daughter-in-law of Earl Russell, 1 who has been suddenly stricken down with one of her children by diphtheria. The .Senate of the University of London has declined, by a majority of 17 to 10; the'request of the majority of Convocation, urging the Senate to apply for a new charter, with power to the University to admit women to degrees."