A HUSBAND’S LOVE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2743, 7 January 1882, Page 2

A HUSBAND’S LOVE.

It is easy enough to win a husband. Most any attractive little dumpling with a bright eye and coaxing voice cun gather in a noble husband, but it is pretty difficult to retain him. Noble husbands are thicker than hair on a dog, but the grand difficulty is to draw out their true nobility and secure it at home. | If the wife only understands her business she can introduce the soothing racket in her new field of operations and walkaway with the whole business. Most men like -to be loved and soothed. There is something in the man's great, rough, earnest nature that can be won quicker and easier with gentleness and pie than by the logic of the broom handle and a.bilious course of reasoning with bread and milk diet.

We have seen a girl who understood her business take a reformed road agent by. the nose, so to apeak, and lead him through life in such a way that he wouldn’t know but that he was the boss of the ranch. So perfect was the de lusion, that when she asked him to bring in a scuttle of coal, or get up in his night shirt and kill a burglar that he knew was nothing but a bob-tailed cow four blocks away, he always went and he felt as though he counted it a mark of special favor that a poor unworthy worm of the dust like him should be sought out and delegated to go and chase a lame cow across nine vacant lots with an old barrel stave, and clothed in nothing but a little brief authority and a, knit undershirt. We cannot exactly describe this magic power of a devoted wife over her husband, and we do not intend to try it. It is an unseen motive, a name less leverage that makes the husband get up in the dead hour of the night and set the pancake batter near the parlour stove.

A roan need not think that because he gets up and looks for. burglars in the night it is because be has no backbone. It is simply because he is the husband of a woman of whom he ought to be proud.— “ Boomerang.”