Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1910 — RULES FOR THE WIFE [ARTICLE]

RULES FOR THE WIFE

If your husband comes home tired at night, and wants to throw himself on theij sofa after dinner and rest, don’t let him. Insist on his putting on evening clothes and going somewhere He needs a change, not rest. Encourage his buying new clothes In every way in your power. This will always furnish you with an excuse to do the same. If you have an engagement to meet him at a given place at a given hour, remember that promptness is an invaluable asset and never be more than twenty minutes or half an hour late. _ Do not burst into tears ever, unless you feel that It Is absolutely unnecessary. Have a scrap with him at regular Intervals, in order not to let the good old home traditions die out. It you have passed middle age, and have lost the charm of youth, always insist that your husband kiss you when, after a visit away from home, you alight from a railway train. If he has some little Imperfection which annoys him, the rule is to remind him of it six times, in quick succession, then stip three, then six, and so on.—Life.