DON’TS FOR HUSBANDS.
A Subscriber’s Answer to “Don’ts for Wives.” 1. Don’t marry a woman for love and make her a slave, Women are to be loved as well as to be helpful. 2. Don’t spend all your money on your friends and starve your wife at home. 3. A stylish husband and a poorly clad wife do notjnako a good pair. 4. Don’t forget a husband can spend more in five minutes at the card table than a wife would spend in a year. 5. Don’t think the way to keep a wife’s love is to be smiling and flirting with other women. 6. Don’t make confidents of other women while you have a kind and loving wife at home ; if she was worthy of your name she is worthy of . your confi dence. 7. ' Don't grumble over trifles; if another party puts you out of temper, do not go borne and blame your wife. 8. Don’t forget your wife’s happiness depends on the husband ; if she has been a faithful wife to you for twenty years, love her and tell her so, and it will add more beauty to her face than paint or powder. 9. Don’t forget to be truthful and honest to your wife ; do not be deceitful towards her. Honesty of word and deed is far above wealth to married couples. 10. Don’t forgot a woman craves for l ove —it is her whole existence ; her homo is her kingdom ; and you as her husband ( ore responsible for the sunshine and happiness that surrounds that home. 11. A good wife will need no telling as to what her husband’s comforts require, and a good husband worthy of the name, will do everything in his power, to lighten the burden of life for bis wife.
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Patea Mail, Volume XXXIX, 3 July 1914, Page 3
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