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Show HINTS TO HUSBANDS. Women, I think, like manly, not ladylike men. They like honesty of purpose and consideration. They like men who believe in women. They like their opinions to be thought of much value. They like a man who can be strong as a lion when trouble comes and yet, if one is nervous and tired can button up a shoe and do it with an amount of consideration that is a mental and physical brace-up. They like a man who can take hold of the baby, convince it of his power and get it to sleep after they have been worrying with it until their eyes are tired and they feel as if they had no brains. They like a man who is interested interest-ed in their new dresses, who can give an opinion of the fit, and who is properly indignant at any article arti-cle written against women. They like a man who knows i their innocent weaknesses and eaters to them ; who will bring home a box of candy, the last new magazine, or the latest puzzle sold on the street, that will do more than its duty in entertaining everybody for the whole evening. They like a man who is the mas- ter of (he situation that is, who ; has brain enough to help a woman ' to decide what is the best thing to do under the circumstances, and who has wit enough to realize, when one of the fairer sex is slightly slight-ly stubborn, that persuasion is more po.wcrfnl than all the arguments argu-ments in the world. They like a man who likes them who doesn't scorn their opinions, who believes in their good taste, who has confidence in their truth, and who, best of all, knows that the love promised is given him, That is the sort of a man a woman likes, and her every sigh of satisfaction, as her virtues are mentioned, men-tioned, is a little prayer that says. ufIod bless him,1' says an exchange. |