Show A Word To The Wives By FLORENCE BITTNER June is school Is and brides are lining up at assorted altars to tie the fateful casserole dishes and advice are freely given whether needed or OVER THE years I've given away my share of quilts and but no one seems to want my And I have such a lot of it to most obvious and least apt to be I HAVEN'T forgotten Aunt Martha's advice to me on my wedding Her gift was a large black cast iron cook worth her salt can git by without and it comes in mighty handy as a weapon if need She also man's work and there's woman's and you'd best draw the line right away which is Men figure their work is anything they can't git their wives to so don't you be too eager to HAVE A weak Have a Have a but slopping pigs and milking cows is man's She also told me how to keep a hungry man content while you hurry and get dinner Set the table Maybe you haven't even got the frying pan out but if the table is he knows your intentions are good and he will read the paper ON THE other dinner can be ready for dishing but if the table isn't he'll be sure you're going to starve him to set table shows your man you love He feels secure when the silverware is ready and the glass is full of but if the table is he feels By the time it dawns on him dinner isn't it IN EVERY there's one who babies and one who gets babied-By the time you get to the changes are you have already decided which is but after the a smart bride can turn the tables in her favor with a few well placed tears and the old don't love Tears have been called secret but they are strictly emergency rations and can't be used too Matter of they lose their effectiveness as the years and sometimes they only make him but in the beginning as a stage they can be very ALWAYS remember the best defense is a good so when you are most in the begin by accusing did you let me go to that SALE You know I do silly things at What on earth am I going to do with all these And you know we can't afford but I just couldn't help A FEW tears might be effective but the bravely restrained not the shoulder shaking sob I had your will we wouldn't get into this kind of and I know you want me to look nice for your but why didn't YOU go get these dresses for You have such wonderful THEN SAY for you put a dent in the For goodness go all weepy and Right away he'll think only of his beloved and no smart bride is going to compete with a man's What you do is wait till he comes into the house all red in the face and holding his and you run over to him and throw your arms around him and put your little head on his big strong shoulder and all right I didn't get hurt just shaken up and bruised a THEN you back away and put your hands on your and for heaven why don't you get that steering I could have been Oh So much for my good advice for this Maybe I'd better go back to giving I suspect half the brides don't use them any more often than they use my |