The Husband’s Duty.
Don’t think the woman you have married is yours, body and soul.
Don’t be niggardly in money matters.
Don’t withhold from your wife your tender love and sympathy. Regard her as your dear sweetheart all through life. Always treat her with tender consideration.
Don’t try to argue with her. A woman cannot reason; she is guided rather by her womanly intuition, which is rarely at fault.
Follow the counsel of your wife. Many a man has done so and succeeded. Wisdom and foresight are possessed by women, as well as men.
Let your wife understand fully your business. Don’t let her think you are earning fifty dollars a week when you are earning only thirty dollars, or vice versa.
Give your wife all the pleasure you can. She needs it.
Do not go about enjoying yourself with boon companions while your wife toils at home.
Don’t spend money for rum while your wife has to make over her old dresses.
If your wife is worthy of it (most wives are), praise her. Women like praise.
Women are not as strongly built as men, and are thus likely to be often in delicate health. If so, your wife may be petulant and cross. Make allowances for this and don’t scold her.
Don’t interfere with your wife in the performance of the duties that belong peculiarly to her.
Give her money enough to dress well, even if you have to make sacrifices to do so.
Treat her mother with becoming respect.