Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1879 — How to Have a Loving Wife. [ARTICLE]

How to Have a Loving Wife.

If you would have a loving wife, be as gentle in your words after as - before marriage; treat her quite as tenderly when a matron as when a miss; don’t make her the maid of all work, and ask her why she looks less tidy and neat, than when yon first knew her: don’t buy cheap, tough beef and scold because it does not come on the table “porterhouse;” don’t smoke and chew tobacco, and thus shatter your nerves, spoil your temper, make your breath a nuisance, and complain that your wife declines to kiss you; go home joyous and cheerful to your supper, and tell your tired wife the good news you have heard, and not silently put on your hat and go out to theclnb or lodge and let her afterward learn, that you spen t the evening at the opera, or at a fancy ball with Mrs. Dash. Love your wife; be patient; remember you are not perfects but try to be; let whisky, tobacco, and vulgar company alone; spend your evenings with your wife; live a decent, Christian life, and your wife will be loving and true—(if you did not marry a heartless beauty, without sense or worth:) if you did, who is to blame if you suffeTthe consequences? ’ An Albany lady informed a visitor who came to see her new house that she was having “nicks made in the Walk in Wihich to place statuettes, and m one of them-a burst of her husband.”