HOW TO BE A GOOD HUSBAND.
- Consult your wife: Your wife is apt to be as right as you are, and frequently able to add much to your stuck of wisdom.
- Study to keep her young: It can be done, it is not work, but worry, that wears. Keep a brave, true heart between her and all harm.
- Help to bear her burdens: Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of love. Love seeks opportunities to do for the loved object. She has the constant care of your children. She is ordained by the lord to stand guard over them. Not a disease can appear in the community without her taking the alarm. Not a disease can come over the threshold without her instantly springing into the mortal combat.
If there is a deficiency anywhere, it comes out of her pleasure. Her burdens are everywhere. Look for them, that you lighten them. - Make yourself helpful by thoughtfulness: You should remember to bring in to the house, your best smile and sunshine. It is good for you, and it cheers up the home. There is hardly a nook in the house that has not been carefully hunted through to drive out everything that might annoy you. The dinner which suits, or ought to suit you, has not come on the table for itself. It represents much thoughtfulness and work. You can do more manly thing than find some way of expressing, in word or look, your appreciation of it.
- Take your wife into society: Seclusion begets morbidness. She needs some of the life that comes from contact with society. She must see how other people appear and act. It often requires an exertion for her to go out of her home, but it is good for her and for you. And she will bring back more sunshine.
- Stay at home: Habitual absence during the evenings is sure to bring sorrow. If your duty or business calls you, you have the promise that you will be kept in all your ways. But if you go out to mingle with other society, and leave your wife at home alone, or with the children and servants, know that there is no good in store for you. She has claims upon you that you can not afford to allow to go protest. Lets reverse the case. You sit down alone after having waited all day for your wife's return, and think of her as reveling in society, and see if you can keep out all the doubts as to what takes her away. If your home is not as attractive as you want it, you are a principal partner. Set yourself about the work of making it attractive.
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