FOR HUSBANDS | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 13, 1879

FOR HUSBANDS.

Don’t think when you have won a wife that you have also won a slave.

Don’t think that your wife has less feeling than your sweetheart. Her relation to you is changed, not her nature.

Don’t think that you can dispense with all the little civilities of life toward her on marrying. She appreciates these things quite as much as other women.

Don’t be gruff and rude at home. Had you been that sort of a fellow before marriage, the probabilities are that you would be sewing on your own buttons still.

Don’t make your wife feel that she is an encumbrance on you by giving her grudgingly. Give her what she needs as cheerfully as though it were a pleasure so to do. She will feel better, and so will you.

Don’t meddle in the affairs of the house under her charge. You have no more right to be poking your nose into the kitchen than she has to walk into your place of business and give directions to your employes.

Don’t find fault with her extravagance in ribbons, etc., until you have shut down on cigars, tobacco, beer, etc.

Don’t leave your wife at home to nurse the children on the score of economy, while you bolt down town at night, to see the show, or spend a dollar on billiards.

Don’t bolt your supper, and hurry off to spend your evenings lounging around away from your wife. Before marriage you couldn’t spend evenings enough with her.

Don’t prowl in the loafing resorts till midnight, wasting your time in culpable idleness, leaving your wife lonely at home to brood over your neglect and her disappointment.

Don’t think that board and clothes are sufficient for all a wife does for you.—Selected.