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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 30, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 50.

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Home Courtesies

How many times does a wife refuse an invitation from a husband because it lacks heartiness! How many times does a husband regret giving one because it is accepted in a “don't-care-anything-about-it” manner! One of the most talented and busy men of the age, a man whose profession requires the use of every faculty and every minute, yet finds time to treat his wife as if she were a queen. Her entrance into a room in which he is, even in her own house, brings him to his feet until she is comfortably seated. Her slightest movement is not lost to him. The tones of her voice make or mar his happiness for the time being. His eyes follow her with looks of love and pride that make her an object of envy to wives whose hearts ache for a crumb of similar attention from their own husbands.

But there are many wives who, by receiving attentions in an indifferent manner, kill the impulse in the husbands to show attention. Wives sometimes do not invite such attentions; and when their attitude is one of coldness, the expression of affection by tender loving attentions is repressed, and, after a time, dies. Fussiness is not tenderness. Worrying over one is not evidence of affection. It may be the depths of selfishness—a fear of material comfort being interfered with by illness. But tenderly dignified courtesy can not fail to call forth the fullest affection if there is any capacity for affection in the heart.

A courteous, dignified manifestation of affection is a most beneficent education in the family life. It is the most refining influence that can be brought to bear in forming the manners and usages in the home life.—Selected.