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Show Tu Ntw Wive. The Hi-volution, the women s organ published at New York, contains the following advice from "Aunt Nell" to newly made w,ves : You will find, dear, that most of the trouble and annoyance of this life springs from the disregard of little things, and especially is this true in the marital relation; and, as I told you before, my advice to you in this connection springs quite as much from my desire for your husband s happiness happi-ness as for yours. From my heart I pity the man who is couipeded to endure en-dure a badly-cut shirt. A lady of my acquaintance once insisted that she would do this work herseif. She had leisure and was proficient in the use of the needle. She was not at all successful, suc-cessful, but her patience and good nature under oft repeated failures was. indeed, marvelous. The husband, poor man, broke down first. N aturally kind hearted and exceedingly quiet, in order to plea-e lits wife, he had submitted to a neck-baud martyrdom, which those who have been in similar fixes wiil be perfectly able to appreciate. One evening he returned from business looking extremely sad and exhausted. "What in the world is the matter?'' was the first query. "The matter," he replied, "is this confounded shirt, and dou t you dare to make me another as long as you live. Shirt-making is not your forte. It is no use for you to waste any more uiuslm trying to choke me fbr tliree months of partial strangulation have convinced me that 1 am proof against all such effort." Of course, this was not very elegant, neither was it very considerate; but. as with most other quiet men, when he did wake up his observations were "to the point." I did not intend to devote much time to the shirt question, but your surprise at what you were pleased to call "strange advice," rendered it necessary. ne-cessary. There is another point to which I wish to call your attention. You should endeavor, as far as possible, to understand the amount of care and fatigue attendant upon your husband's business, and govern yourself accordingly. accord-ingly. One of the most barbarous practices in married life is that of dragging a man out to an evening's entertainment after a tiring, perplexing business day has rendered hiui just in the mood to appreciate home and Itonu rest. I do not believe with some of the innovating originals of 1 S7U that wealthy men's wives, or those even in moderate circumstances, experience at the end of the day as much weariness either physi;al ur mental as do their supporters; and most emphatically emphati-cally do I counsel you, my young friend, against allowing such ideas to gain entrance into your mind, and perhaps per-haps eurbitter your whole future. If Farepa is to sing, and you long to Hear her, meutiou your wish, but, upon no Consideration, urge the matter after he has evinced a preference for home. |