Man ... That Big Child!

We may be seized with wonder when we see a girl in the prime of life, abundantly endowed with charm, femininity, and attraction, who nevertheless fails to keep the husband she won after courtship, engagement, and trial!...

If the wife is asked, she says, astonishment plain in her tone:

— I do not know what has come over my husband... He no longer loves me as I knew him to before marriage... indeed, perhaps he never loved me at all!

What I know, after long study and experience, is that if a husband deserts his wife, the blame falls on no shoulders but the wife's alone, because she did not know how to tame the husband and tempt him to love "the cage of matrimony" and never weary of remaining inside it.

The wife must know that boredom is the "atomic bomb" that blasts married life and tears love up by the roots... Indeed, it must never leave the wife's mind that the husband is a "big child" who may dote on his doll for a while; then, if he tires of her, he turns away from her — or brings his hand down upon her and smashes her.

To the wife, then, a few counsels for doing away with the big child's boredom:

1 — Beware of meeting your husband in your "kitchen" clothes... for he is revolted to see you careless of your toilette, even if he pretends the contrary...

2 — Wake up early, before his hour, so that when he rises you may meet him with a fresh and radiant face...

3 — The toilette has its secrets; beware of letting your husband in on them, or they will lose their value in his eyes... It is the ignorant lady who adorns herself in full view of her husband...

4 — Show him every day "a new face" — if possible — by changing your hair-dressing, or the color of the ribbon with which you tie up your locks, or your house dresses, or the scent you are accustomed to use...