SOME DON'TS FOR HUSBANDS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1467, 13 February 1886, Page 3

SOME DON'TS FOR HUSBANDS.

Don't trouble yourself to be on hand promptly at your meals. Your wife will keep your supper as warm as toust in the oyen for you. She enjoys your tardiness. Don't hurry. Its vulgar to hurry. Don't begin to eat your breakfast as soon aB you sit down at the table. Bury yourself in the morning paper first for about fifteen minutes. Then your breakfast will be nice and cold, and less liable to give you the dyspepsia. Your wife eDJoys oatiDg hers in silence, and then watching you bolt yours. It increases feminine amiability. Don't allow the presence of company to interfere with your appreciation of y«.ur wife's perfection in housekeeping, if you see dust oil the mantelpiece, wipe it carefully away with your pocket-handker-chief. You will at once inspire your friends with admiration for your thoroughness.

Don't feel any hesitancy in inquiring of your wife what she did with the £1 you gave her four weeks ago. Carelessness in monetary matters has been known to engender extravagance of a very serious nature in women. Never forget the old saying that " a woman can throw out of the back window with a spoon more than a man can pitch into the front door with a shovel," and " wilful waste breeds woful want."

Don't contract a habit of telling your wife where you go when you are out at night. The female mind is very susceptible, and what she doesn't know wont trouble her.

Don't; fail to break up a few articles of furniture the first time she reads one of your letters or looks in your pockets. The exercise may not be agreeable, but the impression you make may do you a good turn in the future, as she is liable to find something she ivould not approve of.

Don't refuse an invitation to the theatre on your wife's account. Don'c mind about sending her word, and go right from your place of business. She will conclude by 10 o'clock you are not coming anyway, and if she sits up and rocks the baby till 12 she will be all the more glad to see you when you do come. Don't deny yourself the pleasure of being well dressed at all times. You are a business man, and it is your duty. To be a man among men it is necessary that you be well dressed. If your family love you they will desire you to look a gentleman at whatever sacrifice of comforts and necessaries on their part. Don't allow your wife to handle any money in running the house. Pay all the bills yourself, and then you know just where all the money goes to. Women are not experienced in monetary matters. They are liable to pay their lady friend's car fare, and they are fond of ribbons. Some are even addicted to foreign missions.

Don't be too much interested in your wife's ailments. Headache, neuralgia, and pains in the back are common to the feminine constitution. Tell her so, and in time she may become quite heroic. Sympathy generates hypochondria in many cases. Always suggest a disordered liver—it may have a soothing influence. —Exchange.