The Young Wife.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9, 1 September 1906, Page 54

The Young Wife.

Xf you mean to be a comfortable person to live with, study and master the intricacies of good house-keeping. But you are not to stop there. You must continue to cultivate your mind, first for your own sake, but also for your husband’s. Do not allow your mental development to come to a full stop. He is learning all sorts of fresh facts every day. A man’s life and his continual association with others who think, tend to encourage the natural proclivity he has for mental growth. Men are built that way.

However pretty and well dressed you are—and both of these delight him he will feel it to be a great draw back if you are not interested in most of the things that interest him. That which a man likes best (in conjunction with good housekeeping) is a cheerful, smiling philosophy and intelligent interest in things in general, and in himself in particular. He hates being irritated by fretful pessimism, and he hates beThg bored by dull vacuity. To continue to be the woman your husband loves best will be your greatest happiness: but to be also the most interesting woman he has ever met will be your greatest pride.