The Wisdom of Wires.

Otago Witness, Issue 2728, 27 June 1906, Page 73

The Wisdom of Wires.

A man's wife often knows more than he knows about a great maay things, and while he need not lower himself in her estimation by admitting her mental superiority, it is sometimes well for him to silently recognise her superior intelJicence and profit by it. '

If he be a wise man he will not be too ready to come into accord with the opinions of his wife, but will affect a great deal of wisdom of his own, even though he knows that he has none.

It never increases a wife's respect for her husband to know that he is her inferior in anything ; and it certainly does not increase her respect or affection to have him intimate by word or look that she does not know anything at all. The judgment of the average woman regarding the disbursement of money is often better than that of the average man. It is often better when it comes to spending money for domestic purposes. It takes a shrewd shopkeeper or marketman to get ahead of the average woman, while a marketman who is yet new to the business finds it easy to work off stale wares on the average man, and the most conceited man might as well acknowledge frankly that his wife can attend to most of the affairs of her own household better than he can attend to them for her.

Women very often have the most acute perception regarding business affairs. There would probably be fewer failures in the business world if more men would "talk business" with their wives instead of taking it for granted that "women don't understand anything about business."

A daily exchange of confidence and a mutual respect for each other's opinions will do much toward making the wheels of any domestic establishment run along smoothly.