PLAY THE GAME
MANNERS FOR THE MARRIED These few little rules for husbands and wives are suggested by an overseas writer, in the interests of domestic harmony—in public, at least. To the husbands she says:— 1. Do not behave in public toward your wife as if she were not there at all. Look at her as if she were a pretty woman—and not your wife. 2. Do not tell stories against her unless you have one or two compliments, too, to pay her that ring true. 3 Do let us have a little of that public school spirit at a party and play the game when the party isn’t going too well. Wives are exorted thus:— 1. Do not call your husband laughable pet names in public. Buy a dog instead. 2 Do not point out to him all the courtesies he has omitted to offer the guests, until they are gone—and then do it wisely rather than too well. 3. Do not spoil his funny stories by interposing when he tells them for the seventeenth time and gets them wrong. Plan the meals for next day instead, and when he has finished, laugh, woman, laugh.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20509, 29 August 1936, Page 11
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196PLAY THE GAME Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20509, 29 August 1936, Page 11
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