Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1898 — A Sensible Young Wife. [ARTICLE]

A Sensible Young Wife.

“How do you like my cooking? Come, now, give me your honest opinion. How does it compare with your mother’s?” “If you want my honest opinion. I will say your cooking is very fair, hut it is not quite equal to mother’s.” “1 did not expect it would be quite equal to your mother’s, but I wish you to remember that your mother had many years experience before you were capable of forming a judgment of her cooking.” “By Jove, you are right, I never would have thought of that, though I assure you 1 would have made no comments on your cooking if you had not asked for my honest opinion. The point you have made is a good one, but it is entirely overlooked by young married men.” ' ' “It is, and, unfortunately, it is not thought of by young wives. The idea of any man saying to a girl just a year or two out of school, ‘You can’t cook as well as mother,’ and never taking into consideration that mother has had an experience of forty or fifty years! Suppose the young wife should turn round and retort, ‘You’re not half as skillful a workman as my father” ” . “And I wonder she doesn’t. It’s a poor rule that won’t work both ways,” And so it is, when you come to think of it.—Saturday Evening Post.