RULES FOR HUSBANDS.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 151, 4 June 1879, Page 3

RULES FOR HUSBANDS.

Don't think when yon have won a wife that yon have got, also, a slave. Don’t think that your wife has less feeling that your sweetheart. Her relationship “to yon is simply changed —not her nature. Don’t think that you can dispense with all the little civilities of life towards her on marriage. She appreciates these things quite as much as other women. Don’t be gruff and rude at home. Had you been that sort of fellow before marriage the probabilities are that you would be sewing on your buttons still. Don't make your wife feel incumbent on you by giving her grudgingly. What she needs give as cheerfully as if it were a pleasure for you do so. telic will fool much bettei, and so will you. Don’t meddle with the affairs of the house under her charge. You have no more right to be poking your nose into the kitchen, than she has to walk into your place of business and give directions to your employes. Don’t find fault with her extravagance in ribbons, etc., while yon waste money on cigars, tobacco, whisky, etc. Don’t leave your wife at home to nurse the children on the score of economy, while yon go to theaters and spend money at billiards. Don’t bolt your supper, and hurry off to spend your evening away from your wife. Before marriage you could not spend your evenings enough, with her. Don’t prowl about till midnight, wasting your time in culpable idleness, leaving your wife lonely at home to brood over your neglect and her disappointment. Don’t think that the woman whom you have solemnly promised to i: love, cherish, and protect,” becomes a servant for you as her part of tho contract. limi t think that board and clothes are sufficient for all that a wife (hies for you. Don’t expect a wife to love and honor you ii yon prove to be a brute and unworthy ot her love and honor. Don't caress your wife in public, and then snarl and growl at at her when you arc in private; this proves that you are a hypocrite. Don t wonder that your wife is nut as cheerful as she used to he when she labors from earlv morn till late at night to pander to the comfort and caprice oi a s-dusb pig who has not soul enough to appreciate her.