Ladies' Column.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1920, 25 October 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

Ladies' Column.

Mannerly Children. A prettily dressed child is always attractive looking, but if it is rude and, ill bred fine clothes will have no effect upon the general mind. A clean, plainly dressed child, with good manners, is always noticed with pleasure, spoken of and generally admired ; therefore good manners are of the greatest importance to children. They should not only be neat and clean in their habits, but they should be taught to be civil, obliging and kindly to every one. If they are allowed to snarl and fret, be rude to their brothers and sisters and friends, they will be nuisances always to be avoided, Teaoh your little child to say : " Please, mamma ! " <( Please, papa ! " for every favor he desires, and it will give him the keynote to pleasing manners. Rebuke the cross -words he speaks, taking great care at the same time that he doei not learn them from your lips. Children possess strong imitative powers and will show you a small likeness of yourself if you only have the ability to recognisa the portrait and apply it. Children kejpt in the nursery will often become very shy with gtrangers Teach them to come forward, and shako hands, t

say " Good morning" or "Good evening" to every visitor, and reply quietly and not pertly to all questions. Jf you are forced to leave your children with a nurse watch her carefully, and have the children with you as much as possible. Children sometimes learn from a nurse a vocabulary that is often startling. Never let your boy& sit down in your presence with cap or hat on, but teach them to leniove it as soon as they enter the house. These seoin like like little trifles, yet, " trifles light as air, maho up tho sum of human happiness."

The Duty of Husbands. Thu first duty of husbands is to sympathise with their wives in all their caies and labois. Mon aie apt to forget, in their perplexities and annoyances of business, that home caves are annoying, and try the strength and patience of their wives. They como home expecting sympathy and attention, bat aie too apt to have none to give. A single land word or look, that tells his thoughts of her and her troubles, would lift a weight of care from her heart. Secondly — Husbands should make confidants of their wivos, consulting them on their plans and piospects, and especially on their troubles and embarrassments. A woman's intuition is often better than all his shrewdness and wisdom ; and all her ready sympathyand mteiest is a poweiful aid to his efforts for their mutual welfare. Thirdly— Men should show their love for wives in constant attention, in their manner of tieating them, and in the thousand and ono trifling offices of aiteetiou which may be bnidly noticeable, but which make all the diffej enco betw een a life of sad and undignified longing and cheeiy, happy existence. Above all, mon should bewaie of ti eating their wives with rudeness and incivility, as if they were the only per&ons not entitled to their consideration and respect. They should think of their tender feelings, and their need of sympathy, and never let the fire of love go out, or cease to show that the flamo is burning with unabated f eivor.