TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR MEN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 294, 6 May 1911, Page 9

TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR MEN.

1. Pick out. a wife with as much caro as you do a horse. Investigate her pedigree, and find out if she is kind, gentle, tractable, good tempered, willing to work in double harness without shying or bolting. 2. Don't marry until you are ready to settle down. As long as von want t.o train with the boys keep single. 3. Don't marry until 'von are able to support, a wife. 4. Don I. shoo away the stork from your house. Every married couple to bo happy must have a common interest, and there is no such common interest as a baby. 5. Don't, boss or lie bossed. The ideal marriage is not an autocracy, but a partnership. 0. Settle the financial question the day you are married. Make vour wife a failallowance, and compel her to keen within it. 7. (live as much time and thought t.o your wife as you do to vour business, and show as much real 'heart in her as you do in the stock market. S. Make it a rule to toll vour wife at least once a day that you are as much in love with her as you were when you courted her. and that she gets better looking every year of her life. i). See. that your wife has plenty of work to do, mixed in with plenty of'fun. Tt is only idle and neglected women who have "affinities." 10. Never let. your mother or your wife's mother live in your house. ' An in-law is the harbinger of domestic strife and the first aid to divorce.