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The West AUSTRALIAN
PERTH, SATURDAY, JITLY 19, 1913
SENSIBLE WIFE ---Tells How She Held Her Husband's Affections
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Under this heading the following article appeared in the May number of "Extension Magazine," and was awarded the first prize offered for short letters on the subject. It is full of splendid thought on a subject that causes much anxiety to many a young woman. To hold a husband's affection is comparatively easy. To some women, indeed, it may have proven a task, but the reasons for their inability are not difficult to discover. Too many girls have changed radically in the last decade. They expect too much. The honeymoon is scarcely passed before they want their own home, or a iiano, or a maid, exeensive dresses and hats and things beyond what the average husband coin afford. It must be apparent to those interested in a happy home that some sacrifice must be made, and some economy practiced early in married life. The girl who has had some training or experience is fortunate, and most of us have or should hive had. ('otpnaratively few girls are reared in plenty, and
the importance of the little things that mean so much to the average man, such as personal neatness and tidiness, dressing the table with called Society. and decorating it It is not in society that you will find clean, white linen, your trustorthy friends. The em- with flowers in season and sometimes out of season, especially at Christblem of society is really very often Even old, only a signal of distress. Fit your- mas and Easter tune. dishes are a jarself for society, then avoid it as cracked and chipped ring note. much as aossi'le ; in your own home I know from personal experience you will find the best society. those the value of these little things and who li e for pleasure alone live with their influence on a husband. If a (al ;o r., woman (loci; her best to please her Equality of the sexes is not in the lu s' and, I know De will he happy and Without Properly Prepared Food there is No Such Thing as Good nature of things. .\lan and woman she successful in holding his love and Health. were made for, and not like one an- affection. Consequently, strange as it may other. The woman's place is the seen, home. The difference between man's When it is Time to Think of vocation nd woman's seems to he The Kitchen is the Secret Key for Miracles one is abroad, the other at Holding his Affections at Home. If you cannot prepare the meal pro- hoele; one active, the other passive. In this age of materialism, when hers perly and keep house systematically, Ile goes out to seek his path Yet pseudo -science would put Faith into you are in the wrong from the start. t s tally lies close to her feet. a well and keep it there, when the If you do not have to do the coo's:- each is as distinct, as honourable, as votaries of Reason would annihilate resolutely ini,st be Each difficAt. evident certainly is it yourself, ing the Supernatural, it is something of trod. mind well-balanced to the average more than passing interest to read say, woman a married heard once I know you that necessary that it is the expressed conviction of a distinguished physician in relation to the wonders of Lour1:N EW : PAR LIAMENT : HOUSES : PF:RTH: des. The dull and questioning Catholic who, like the doubtful Thomas of old, must see
There is no valid excuse for ignorance on that score. it is, moreover, a very interesting theme, this science of domesticity. You can inject your own individuality into the subject and he in a clues by yo rself, thus making it a pleasure instead of Learn to do something drudgery. worth while. While it may not lie literally true that you can reach a through his stomach, If an's heart good nevertheless without fairly health you cannot make him happy.
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before he can believe, would do well to read and digest what Dr. Boiseerie, of Lourdes, has to say upon the
Affection means to Make the home a Place where Happie ness Reigns Supreme
question of miracles--. "I look upon no cure of a nervous malady as the effect of a miracle. A paralytic who begins to walk, a dumb persuddenly who son speaks, a maniac who recovers his reason, etc., these are assuredly miraculous cures, and yet I do not acI cept them as such.
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particular department, which is right at the hearthstone, and the niost difficult to
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all the manage. orders tion, with no reactionary resource ; ; he housekeeping trouble in There is this question to consider when I am confronted with a person butchers to the goes and the dinners ( rf what use is the average school - excuses that are not true. Face the to choose it, pays all the bills and afflicted with lupus or cancer, the educated girl or young lady, with. all music ; of course, there should not eels the weekly accounts. Ile never tissues deeply eaten away, and when her pretty uselessness and pleasant both of these are radically cured wants me to do anything." details little The music. much to() he idleness society has taught her, to without the intervention of physicyou count I were which "My dear, if thougl.t, I the average young man drawing a of home life are the ones ians and in an interval of time so both ashamed much fair salary and about to wed? None must. Think not of yourself, but of I should he very short as to be hardly noticeable ; husband." at all! YOW, assuming that your your work. The interesting and at- of myself and toy when the most frightful ulcers disWhen a house boasts both of mashusband must go to work at seven trective are made so, not by their appear in a few hours without the o'clock in the morning, do not let hysical but their intellectual quali- ter and mistress, each should leave application of anything else than banMill get his own breakfast of coffee ties, and the simple every -day vir- to the other the appointed work and daa,es dipped in the water of the and rolls, or bacon and eggs, as the tues. The most beautiful woman, it I oth qualify themselves rightly to fel- grotto ; when, during the passage of case may be, but arouse yourself and or sh7ewish, til tha s 'me, abstaining as much as the Blessed Sacrament, some of these ,e he dull, coarv, "be on the 'fob" with him. And wh n quickly loses the power to p1 rase and possible from mutual interference. A afflicted ones get up perfectly cured, his then it is time to put aside both he returns for the evening meal meet becomes an object of indifference or man who can trust his wife or him with a pleasant smile, and, repulsion. Absolute hon :sty and c in- housekerer elmuld no more meddle 'suggestion' and 'shock' and think of above all, that dainty pinkness that Idence must he established between eith her hone duties than she should miracles. And such cases occur by pleased him so well before marriage. tarn and wife. In time, with kind- rester him with questions about his the hundred." Have flowers on the table, white, ness, loyalty and truth, wonders will office business. No doubt, countless clean linen and shining china. It may be worked. occasions will arise when we will not he noticed at first ; but gradualcounsel each other in worldly affairs. TPIT FPRONE tcfn inon_taand Life is said to be dull ly it will change the whole nature of It is an obvious law to us women, BROOKS AND BOWER end so is variety the man, and cultivate the beautiful nous ; an i yet its then, to cultivate a good mental at for i.e ra 26 Irwin Street gadding I us that it is ne er the in his nature. Instead of each one For bein:s. about or listening to lectures* at any two h.unanday Home Life Serene a for Effort Any and from r;k4v,16. dots on "I low to Tame the Brilte,- it varies from The fto,taldaymonotony must Begin with the Woman. JICHNI-IND PLITMRIefis of inc-s eKn it is more important that a woman year to ye :r. TiNSMTTH1 VCRS! Untidy, the TI i-i servants sluavish th-re are put fort!: her best endeavour to learn s oneness lies in our tie ivy, WoltIOlt(e of members eae. them as yon would treat nateres. If we arouse o irselves "How to Feed the Brute." Windmills supplied and Fixed. (1.1 entertainment. Th-,s the the faealv. Then there will he no The annarent necessity of a know- find infinite vanised Iron Tanks from Too to le wild and self is manifested. You sneaking in the hack doors ledge of hoesework is readlly aepre- i ef ortance of 41.6Repairs with check tin in ow) Gallons. stories Whv when you goose individuality. an cultivate must a to go cook, dated. If von cannot nemil and despatch. Hot and ^Aft the your tifornine. neighafter pettern .hould von or lectures attend cooking school, Water bald on. strongly too stegaeeT cannot etnphasise and loaded down who, o tr. cooking. of art read books on the :
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