Advice to Brides.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 38, 23 February 1884, Page 3

Advice to Brides.

Love is blind, but love is not deaf. So don t snore. Bo not be in a harry to buy all the new fabrics you see. A richly dvessod woman runs the risk of boing mistaken for a servant girl. Do not threaten to go homo to your mother often er than live times a week. As you don't go he may eventual!}' begin to doubt your sincerity. Do not got angry when your husband first asks you to darn his stockings. Smile sweetly and suggest that it would be cheaper to buy new ones. Have a houso with a furnace in and keep both it and tho range going over night. That Avill improvo your chances for happiness (300 per cent. Your husband's wardrobe will frequently require repairs in tho way of buttons. Always leave the needle, thread and button bag where he caw get them. If your husband complains that you cannot cook as his mother docs, comfort him w ith the reflection that you probably will by the time you are us old as she is. JVlanv women make a practice of piote&ting against the word "obey" in tho marriage service after tho marriage has taken place. This is a mistake. Do not protest against it. Quietly ignore it. If you told him you loved the odour of tobacco while he was courting you. do not begin to speak of smoking as " a horrid disgusting, beastly habit " right after you are married. Wait at least a week. If you need a pair of new .shoes say nothing about them, but get the money for something else, and then while lie is away slip out and .select the shoes yourself. Even a pair of sevens look small to a man so long as lie docs not know the number. If you have a pot dog always keep him around, and then w hen your husband relaxes his attentions fly to tho dog for comfort, hugging and kiting him right before your husband. If lie gets mad and kicks ihe dog, it "will be a sure sign that he still loves you. Kemomber that getting mariied is no reason why you should shut yourself up in the liou.se. Accept all invitations just the same as before, and have a good time. lie comets home and finds both you and the iiic out, he will realise how cheerless life would be without you. In the course of a month your husband will probably ask why you never go near the piano any more. All men do. An effective reply is to hunt up an old book of exercise, and practise three hours every evening for a week while ho is at home, lie will attend to his own affairs after that. —"Philadelphia Cull."