THE WIFE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 September 1941, Page 2

THE WIFE

FCWERS FOR GOOD. The powers of a wife for good are irresistible. Home must be a seat of happiness, or it will be forever unknown. A good wife is wisdom, strength and endurance to a man. A bad wife, confusion, weakness, discomfiture, and despair. To enable a man to keep his vigour and encounter the labour and troubles of life, his home must be a place of peace, repose, cheerfulness and comfort. If your husband looks a little troubled when he comes home, don't say -what ails you?” or “you are jolly quiet." Don’t bother him; don’t pout and be sullen. He will tell you of his own accord if need be, what’s wrong. Let him alone until he is inclined to talk and try and be sociable. Don’t let him find buttons missing on his things. A missing shirt button has frequently produced the first breach in married life. Don’t complain if he pours over the newspaper; think what a man is without a newspaper. Think how much good newspapers do in exposing bad husbands and wives. Instead, in your spare time, glance over the paper yourself, and converse wi th him on the news it supplies —a capital topic of table talk. Perhaps you will think your husband’s disposition has changed, and he is no longer the sweet-tempered and ardent lover he was. That may be a mistake. Consider the struggles and competition ho encounters in business life. Don’t try to have the last word. Who’s the better for the last word? Don’t say hurtful things—things you will be sorry for afterwards.