SISTERS-IN LAW.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 178, 18 July 1908, Page 3

SISTERS-IN LAW.

Men are often placed in some little difliculty as to how they should treat their wives' sisters, especially if they have never had any sisters of their own. Indeed, sisters-in-law expect a little different treatment even from what sisters do. A legal relationship cannot replace the early associations of family life, and an intimacy founded in later years ncv«r becomes quite the same. Sisters-in-law expect a little more deI Terence than sisters do, while they have I the same brotherly affection. A man I calls his sisters-in-law by their Christian names, and kisses them. They can render him many kindly attentions and services, and he, on his part, should always be willing to do the same for them. Tf a man is fond of bis wife he-gener-ally feels kindly towards her family, anil wants to stand on agreeable terms with them. Some husbands have a disagreeable way of not liking to have their sisters-in-law much about the house. They want their wives to themselves, and resent it if they express a '.l wish for their sisters' society.

This is both selfish and unjust. A man should remember that a young wife is often lonely. He has, perhaps, taken I her out of a large and merry family, and he expects her to be quite content with the slender companionship of a man who is . away all day. Naturally she must have many dull hours, and, also] 1 naturally, she would like to have about llier the sisters who have always been her companions uutil now.