A WOMAN'S STUDY OF HUSBANDS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1053, 20 April 1882, Page 2

A WOMAN'S STUDY OF HUSBANDS.

(From the San Francisco Argonaut.) We hear much about the art of winning a husband. Let us take a step further, and make a study out of keeping a husband, If he is worth winning he is worth keepim;. This is a wicked world, and man is dreadfully mortal. Let us take him just as he is, not as he.ought to be. In the first place he is very weak. The wifa must spend the first two years in discovering all these weaknesses, count them on her fingers, and learn them by heart. The fingers of both hands will not be too many. Then let her Btudy up these weaknesses, a mesh for every one, and the secret is hers. Is he fond of a good dinner 1 Let her tighten the uießh around him with fragrant coffee, light bread, and good things generally, and reaoh his heart through his stomach. Is he fond of flattery about his looks! Let her study the dictionary for sweet words, if her supply gives out. Does he like to hear her talk about his brilliant intellect 1 Let her pore ever the encyclopedia to give variety to the dei/th of her admiration. la he fond of beauty 1 Here's the rub -let her be bright and tidy; that is half the victory. Next, let her keep up with the times. A husband who sees his wife look like other people is not going to see her " broken down," Though it is a common sneer that a woman has admitted that her sex considers more, in marryjug the tastes of her friends than her own yet it must be considered ludicrous that a man looks at his wife with the same eyes that other people do. Is he fond of literary matters ? Listen to hira with ' wide open eyes when he talks of them. A man doesn't care so muoh for a literary wife if only she be literary enough to appreciate him, If Bhe has literary inclinations, let her keep them to.herself, Men love to.be big and great to their wives. That's the reason why a helpless little woman oan marry three .times to a sensible, self-reliant woman's none. Is he ' curious 1. 0, then, you have a treasure; you can always keep him if you have a secret and only keep it carefully. Is he/;! jealous? Then, woman, tbis is not.Jgr > you; cease reading, cease torturingihat.' fretted heart which wants you for his own, and teach him confidence. Is he deceitful 1 Pity him for his weakness, treat him as one who is horn with a physical defect, but put.your wits to work—it is a bad case. It is not well to be too tame. At the same time, gudewife, keep from trying any of these things on any other mortal man than your own, These roles are only evolved in order to "keepa husband." The poor weak creature would rather be good than bad, and it is a woman'a duty to. help him by every moans * in her power,