Advice for the Wife

many readings, fanciful at times and harshly realistic at others. So she feels she commands a knowledge that her mother lacked on her own wedding day; she has tasted, in modern literature, the flavor of strange surprises, and has come to hope that life will surprise her with what she awaits; and she has found no one to turn her from her fixed idea — the one that fills her inmost self with doubt and confusion — no one to persuade her that she ought to be at ease and enjoy the pleasures of her present life.

Every girl chooses a rule upon which to center her married life once the honeymoon is over. In sifting these counsels, we find that the best of them come very often from obscure sources, and that in the scraps we pay no heed to lie precious values. Here is a selection of counsels from various personalities truly aware of themselves; they may seem strange and startling, but experience has shown how great their benefits are...

1 — Learn to accept advice graciously: giving is as easy as taking, and if you have no need of what is offered you, pass it on to someone else, without troubling yourself to look for the giver; and if the gift should return by chance to its source, let that be no occasion for anger, but for appreciation of you and acknowledgment of your consummate wisdom.

2 — Do not put in your curling pins before you kiss your husband good night: no man can feel whole-hearted tenderness toward a head of thorns.

3 — Comb your hair and wash your face before breakfast and before you take your coffee, for a man falls into doubt and bewilderment when he cannot tell his wife's face from the creases of his pillow.

4 — Do not touch the razor, and do not tidy your husband's table. These are things to avoid; for a man knows the razor to be a genuine and sacred emblem which a woman may not use, even to cut a thread she has used to sew a

button on his shirt, or to sharpen a pencil of his. So too his private table: he very often leaves the lists and papers scattered about in a far from satisfactory fashion — beware of setting about restoring them to order without his consent.

5 — Do not go to sleep upon a quarrel: the dispute swells before morning until it brings you to an end you will not be thankful for. This rule is easy to follow, within reasonable limits; if your husband feigns drowsiness, it is not wise to renew the conversation. Rather set this maxim before you: "Let the drowsy eye sleep."

6 — If your child and your husband call you at the same moment, go to your husband first

— having made certain that the child is not dangling over the edge of the cradle.

7 — Be generous with your own money and your own time, not with what is his of these. A woman will give up an important engagement merely from a feeling that some other destination is to be preferred; that feeling melts away when she discovers she has thrown away the chance of the gain and the quarry her husband had been counting on. Nor will his welcome be doubled when she offers his help, of her own accord, as a donation to the town club; or when, hearing that a friend of hers is ill and in need of blood, she gives her own blood, and the type does not match the patient's, so she

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