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...
To mend porcelain ware
To mend porcelain ware (farfuri) and fill its holes and cracks, take a quantity of quicklime and grind it very fine, then add to it part of the white of an egg and work it into a thick paste, mixing it with a knife; apply it to the damaged parts, then smooth the outer surface with the knife after the holes or cracks have been completely filled and pressed until firm. In this way the mended parts will have the strength of the porcelain itself.
Making cups and glasses last longer
If you wish to prolong the life of your earthenware, place each piece, after buying it, in a vessel of cold water; then bring the water slowly to the boil and leave the piece in it until the water cools.
Slight cracks in china
Such cracks sometimes mar the
look of one piece, or more than one piece, in a china set you are fond of. These very small cracks disappear if you place the affected piece in a vessel of milk, which you then bring slowly to the boil and leave so for a few minutes.
Pouring boiling water into china vessels and plates
When you pour water into a china or glass vessel, always stand a spoon upright in it. The spoon draws the heat to itself and keeps the cup or glass from cracking.
A cement for china
Ordinary alum makes a good cement for china, provided you melt it over the gas flame and put it into the cracks while hot. And a
little egg white thoroughly mixed with quicklime will stop these cracks if you apply the mixture to them quickly.
Broken china (put to use)
Large broken pieces of china are good for sharpening knives. So sharpen your kitchen knives on the edges of broken china pieces before you throw them out.
To prevent breakage
Wrap the kitchen taps with adhesive tape to keep china and glass vessels and cups from breaking or shattering if they happen to knock against the tap.