THESE TRYING PROBLEMS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 414, 25 January 1909, Page 10

THESE TRYING PROBLEMS.

• v-. Some : most interesting things »üb- ■ lished in domestic, journals are to bo iound -among. ; the answers to correspondents. There a kindly'.light is thrown upon the dark . .mj.steries,.- pf)'-, social etiquette, and -..the most ...Ueliqate/taatters. are subjected -to expert ' "Sntioisrn';",,wliile: the "reader gains an insi«bt into many a little budding romance .'..-Who could read without a ;friendly sympathy.: 'tho i< -following,'question?— .- . ■.-• , is it proper.to stand at the gate with a young man who has escorted '•■ one.- home P-.. asks young Miss Ada S. : Not moro than:five minutes at jon«rest says the .experienced adviser. That, would Eupposed|r allow the two young people to ■exchange a ■ few words about'the pleasure of their evening, possibly arrange for some future/meeting,; and take leave of brio another with: the- necessary cordial courtesy iritis early-in -the evening tho girl'mav ■ask.'the ; man';to come in, and' if he accepts '.he should.'Jh'ot'-'stay •■ longer than : half .an ■ h'our at'tho'most. ... '- ' ■■ ■-.-.., HOW THE AVIFE SHOULD SPEAE OF ;-Vv--. -.:,HEE HUSBAND.°..- ;-.■ i ' "-.Does 'a'.Tvifo. who speaks of her husband as 'IMr..—" .-address: him in the same -way when others are present? .-..'.- -■■It'is,'Crari'"who aeks, .and the problem that troubles Clara lias worried many an--1 .o,ther;;';niore especially the people to whom a- wife will speak: of, her husband in'this 'formal-'way. , ■■ ; " ,: ■ -.-■•." "■'•' Mo, says the expert advisor very proper]?; ' /slitJ; ealls- his Christian -name, but !-'slibiild/.not <use a ipet uamo when others ■ arolikely • to' Mar her. j It is an American custom,,l.believe, to speak of one's husband • as.>' f Mr. -^- r —" and is somewhat ridiculed ! by : ,other -nations, who claim that we do not refer to"our daug'hter as "Miss , . ; " -or our son>at "Mf. —■ -r." An English wife uses her husband's Christian name in speaking oJ him, I amiold; but the French seem : ■better--tff«have»solved the difficulty; husthere.; refer., , to.; each" flthor 4as "my wife" and "my husband."- t . '\