Why Every Man Should Praise His Wife.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXII, Issue XII, 19 March 1904, Page 64

Why Every Man Should Praise His Wife.

Apparently there are some men in the world who would not be likely to live long if by any possibility they should be betrayed into praising their wives. The man of this description is a s.dfsullieient creature, who evidently believes that creation was instituted for his benefit. He is a little surprised and a good deal annoyed that things were not arranged more to his liking, but he tolerates the arrangement, not becaus ■ he approves of it, but because he cannot help it. The wife of this man is a woman whom no old-maid should envy. Ami no old maid should ever marry this man when his wife is worn out and laid in the grave; if she does she will regret i. to her latest day—that is, unless she has backbone enough to put the man where he belongs ami keep him there. And it is never pleasant to any truehearted woman to feel she has to mas ter her husband in order to live comfortably with him. The man who never praises his wife will find fault with everything on every possible occasion. It is the easiest thing in the world to find fault—easier than the proverbial sliding down hill. It gets to be a habit with, some men. and they are hardly conscious when they are exercising it. Why cannot r. man show his wife tha he appreciates her efforts to please him? Why cannot he praise th. pudding of his wife as well as the cooking of her neighbour, Mrs Jones? Why cannot he speak kindly of her mince-pie, and charitably of her sponge-cake? Why cannot he say that the new hat is becoming to the face of the woman who loves him? Kind words make his wife happy, and no decent ma nought to withhold them.