EDUCATION OF HUSBANDS.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 490, 13 April 1869, Page 3

EDUCATION OF HUSBANDS.

(From Punch?) How suggestive is the new year of bills ; and bills of house-keeping! It is fearful to reflect how many persons rush into matrimony totally unprepared for the awful change that awaits them. Husbands ought to be educated. We should like to have the questions put to young and inexperienced " Persons about to Marry," Are you aware, Sir, of the price of coals and candles ? Do you know which is more economical—the aitchbone, or the round ? How far, young man, will a leg of mutton go in a small family? How much dearer, now, is silver than Britannia ? Please to give the average price oF a four-poster? Declare, if you can, rash youth, the sum, per annum, that chemisettes, pelerines, cardinals, bonnets, veils, caps, ribbons, flowers, gloves, cuffs, and collars, would probably come to in the lump. If unable to answer these inquiries, we would say to him, " Go back to school." He that would be a husband should also undergo a training, physical and moral. He should be nirther examined thus : —Can you read or. write amid yells of a nursery ? Can you wait any given time for breakfast? Can you maintain your sarenity during a washing-day? Can you cut your old friends? Can you stand being contradicted in the face of all reason ? Can you keep your temper when you are not listened to ? €m you do what you are told without being told why? In a word, young sir, have you the patience of Job ? If you can lay your hand upon your heart and answer "Yes," take your license and marry-~not else.