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Show HOW TO MANAGE A WIFE. A Few Suggestions, Which, If Heed, ed, Would Make Home Happy. For the last three-score years, more or less, I've been reading verv frequently articles on "How to Manage Husbands," and the thought occurs to me why so much needs be written about them, and so little about the wives. One of two theories presents an answer. an-swer. . . First are wives so near perfect and angelical that they need no managing? or, second, have husbands long "since come to the conclusion that it is a problem prob-lem beyond their comprehension? The latter the most .correct, probably, the majority will decide.' Not necessarily, but conveniently so. i It has become second nature to man to think and feel he constitutes the whole family, and the wife must exercise every ingenuity to assist him to occupy the position posi-tion honorably. That wives have some natural rights and feelings in this case, but not antagonistic, without the husband so wills, I propose to set forth. There is one way to manage a wife and if it is properly done your home will be a home, not in name but in reality. Your work may be very trying and troublesome, but when you return to your home, leave it all behind you and meet your wife with the same sweet smile you expect her to have for you. , If the meal is not quite ready don't commence to grumble, but lend a helping hand. Hold the baby, draw the water, see if the fire needs attention, or place the chairs at the table. It's not the steps you save her, but the kind, loving attention that acts as a stim-ula-it, and she forgets herself for you. When seated at the table, if you discover a mistake in some dish, don't set up such a time as to sadden her life for the next six months, but tell her that's nothing-will nothing-will be all right next time. Don't go preaching: a sermon about vour mother's fine cooking. There is no cook but will some time iiave a mistake. Every man knows that if a wife is treated and made to feel his happiness depends on her, she will exert every faculty fac-ulty for the desired result. Don't bank every cent and do all the buying for the house so she shall not handle a dollar. Don't tell her how fine Mrs. so-and-so looked and then withhold from her the necessary means to improve her scanty wardrobe. Remember it is important for her to have a new hat once in ten years as it is for you to have a new one. Don't do all the going out when evening even-ing comes. Take your wife with you, but should it be impossible, you remain at home with her. Treat her like a rational human being and this hue and cry of managing will be dope away with. Your life will be sunshine sun-shine instead of shadows. There are exceptions occasionally to be found even when this method is practiced. pract-iced. Toledo Blade. |