wspapers have
done by exposing bad husbands and bad wives, by giving their errors to
the eye of the public. When your husband is absent, instead of
gossiping or looking into shop windows, sit down quietly, and look
over that paper; run your eye over its home and foreign news; glance
rapidly at the accidents and casualties; carefully scan the leading
articles; and at tea-time, when your husband again takes up the paper,
make some brief remarks on what you have read, and, depend upon it, he
will put it down again. If he has not read the information, he will
hear it all from your lips, and when you have read, he will ask
questions in his turn, and, gradually, you will get into as cosy a
chat as you ever enjoyed; and you will soon discover that, rightly
used, the newspaper is the wife's real friend, for it keeps the
husband at home, and supplies capital topics for every-day table-talk.

2193. Hints for Husbands (2).

You can hardly imagine how refreshing it is to occasionally call up
the recollection of your courting days. How tediously the hours rolled
away prior to the appointed time of meeting; how swiftly they seemed
to fly when you had met; how fond was the first greeting; how tender
the last embrace; how vivid your dreams of future happiness, when,
returning to your home, you felt yourself secure in the confessed love
of the object of your warm affections! Is your dream realised?--are
you as happy as you expected? Consider whether, as a husband, you are
as fervent and constant as you were when a lover. Remember that the
wife's claims to your unremitting regard, great before marriage, are
now exalted to a much higher degree. She has left the world for
you--the home of her childhood, the fireside of her parents, their
watchful care and sweet intercourse have all been yielded up for you.
Look, then, most jealously upon all that may tend to attract you from
home, and to weaken that union upon which your temporal happiness
mainly depends; and believe that in the solemn relationship of husband
is to be found one of the best guarantees for man's honour and
happiness.

2194. Hints for Wives (3).

Perchance you think that your husband's disposition is much changed;
that he is no longer the sweet-tempered, ardent lover he used to be.
This may be a mistake. Consider his struggles with the world--his
everlasting race with the busy competition of trade.