THE MAN 'WHO MAKES TEE BEST HUSBAND.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 45, 22 February 1905, Page 10

THE MAN 'WHO MAKES TEE BEST HUSBAND.

The man who makes tae nest lrasliand is the man who is not mean. Of all creatures to live with, the mean man is the most likely to cause his wife to rue the day she became his. It is not only stinginess in money matters that is repulsive—though that is" bad enough. The mean man stints in the housekeeping. but is generally lavish enough about himself. It is the poor wife who has to bear the jar and fret of all the housekeeping niggardliness. But meanness goes beyond that. It stoops to actions -that cover the wife's chock with blushes, nnd fill her heart with shame and anguish. No man who is mean can keep his wife's love, unless he drags hrr down to his own level, and that the greatest harm he can do hor.

The man who makes the best husband has a temper calculated to boar the wear and tear of everyday life. He does not fly into a passion at a trifle, or vent his rap;p at things nobody on earth can help. He may show his righteous wrath on occasion, and let fly at persons or tilings that deserve it. but he doesn't talk for hour? afterwards and make evervbodv about him miserable.

A good proportion of men who take to drink do it because they have nothing pI-o to fill thtir time. When a man takes to doing nothing from choice, look out for that man. He is pretty sure to be getting into bad ways soon.

The best of husbands is considerate; he takes care of his wife. If men had any idea how women love to be taken care of and looked after, they would, perhaps, exercise their own powers in that direction a little oftener.

Consideration smooths a wife's ways for her. When a husband comes home at night, mid >he meets him, tired and worn with the burden and cares of the day. of which lie knows nothing, a kind word will ehcpr and comfort her as nothing cl=e will. JShe is bettor pleased to have him notice and praise her efforts to keep the house going well, than if be brought her a present of a new bonnet; and when he tries to save her from a little worry she feels a gratitude and a devotion to him that are cheaply bought by the trouble he has taken.

The man who make? the best husband i- unselfish. After all. that covers all iho rest. Consideration, generosity, good temper, all are summed up in that one headjnj. for the unselfish man possesses them all.

Marriage, is so much an affair in which, if he is so disposed, man gets all the kernel? and women all the shells, that it depends entirely upon him whether she doubles her joys and halves her sorrows, or does exactly the reverse.