ADVICE TO BRIDES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 November 1939, Page 8

ADVICE TO BRIDES

SOME TIMELY OBSERVATIONS. Don’t bo in a hurry to furnish your homo from cellar to attic. Most people who are getting married rush around buying everything for the home so that it will be complete by the time they return from the honeymoon. This is. however, very unsatisfactory. It is better to get the. vitally necessary articles of furniture and then spend many happy hours looking around for the other things. Don't be in a hurry to show your man how clever you are in the home. It is better to let him think you can do very little and then give him pleasant surprises during those difficult first months of marriage. You see, if a man goes to the altar thinking that his bride can do anything, he asks for the impossible a few weeks later, instead of being pleasantly thrilled to find that she can make a decent batter pudding, or that she can be trusted to prune the rose trees.

Don’t be in a hurry to make firm friends with the neighbours. Be polite but don’t get too pally until you know exactly what kind of people they are. As a general rule such friendships are like bananas that ripen too quickly, coming over in the steamer, and are. therefore, useless when they arrive at the market and arc needed. Don’t be in a hurry to wear all the new clothes you have been getting together for the occasion. One can usually tell a bride by the fact that she is always appearing in new clothes. As a matter of fact, it is foolish to buy many: it is far better to keep the money and then enjoy bouts of shopping after the honeymoon, when, if you have been used to going to business, you may want something

to occupy your time. Don't be in a hurry to clear out all the old junk your husband has brought with him into the home. He is fond of those old pipes and whatnots. and it is unwise to make himthink that marriage means the giving

up of all the precious relies of his bachelor days. Take it easy, and slowly weed them out.