Advice to a Young Wife.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 51, 24 May 1884, Page 4

Advice to a Young Wife.

Never disturb a man while reading his paper. Never ask a fat man for anything while pulling on his boots. Never speak to a man until he has had something good to eat. Never discuss servants at table. When you want anything wait until your husband has had his breakfast, and then help him tenderly into his coat, and while behind him, smoothing his collar the right way, ask for it. When he looks injured and plaintive examine his plate ; there is sure to be a vacancy. If he comes to breakfast looking on the eve of sobs ask not the reason, for he will answer that he had but one towel. If he lies on the sofa after dinner and shakes the house with his snores, accuse him not of sleeping, for he is "merely thinking with his eyes shut." If he says he is "going to the club for an hour, dear," bid him adieu for the evening. If he loses his handkerchiefs everywhere but at home, let him have his own way about it, that the washerwoman is dishonest without your knowing it. If you want him to do anything never tell him it is good for him for he will not be ti«d to a woman's apron strings.

"Hi ! where did you get them trousers?" asked an Irishman of a man who happened to be passing with a pair of remarkably short trousers on. " I got them were they grew," was the indignant reply. "Then be me conscience," said Faddy, "you've pulled them n year too soon 1"