HOW TO HAVE A LOVING WIFE.
A cokbespondent sends the following to the Phrenological Journal: —
If you would have a loving wife, be as gentle in your words after as before marriage; treat her quite as tenderly wheu a matron as when a miss ; d on't make her tke maid of all work and ask her why she looks less tidy and neat than when " you first knew her;" don't buy cheap tough, beef, and scold her because it does not come on the table porter house; don't grumble about squalling babies if you cannot keep up a nursery, and remember that " baby may take after pa" in his disposition ; don't smoke and chew tobacco, and thus shatter your nerves, and spoil your temper, and make your breath a nuisance, and then complain that your wife declines to kiss you ; go home joyous and cheerful to your wife, and tell her the good news you have heard, and not silently put on your hat and go out to the "club" or "lodge," and let her afterwards learn that you spent your evening at the opera or at a fancy ball with Mrs. Dash. Love your wife; be patient; remember you are not perfect, but try to be ; let whisky, tobacco and vulgar company alone; spend your evenings with your wife, andlivea decent Christian life, and your wife will be loving and true —if you did not marry a heartless beauty, without senses or worth if you did, who is to blame if yon suffer tliii consequences ?
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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 192, 20 August 1870, Page 2
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