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conditions. Deeply tufted, upholstered sofas and chairs will re- 

 quire a vast amount of time and patience to keep in a pleasing 

 state of freshness, while easy chairs with movable cushions are 

 more inviting and require far less attention. Good books and 

 pictures will be the first consideration in a cultured home and 

 the occasional purchase of a thoughtfully selected volume is a 

 wise and profitable investment. A well-ventilated sleeping room, 

 provided with the customary toilet necessities, with a single 

 iron bedstead and roomy washstand is more desirable that a stuffy 

 apartment containing a massive set and a shortage of towels and 

 toilet soap. If comfort and convenience be considered para- 

 mount to magnificence, we will make fewer mistakes in selecting 

 our furnishings. 



ADVICE To THi; WOME:n. 



When one possesses a husband and home, she should bear in 

 mind that it matters not how warm and glowing a fire one may 

 have kindled, that, if it would be kept burning, fuel must be 

 added from time to time. And so it is with the fires of love. If 

 treated with indifference and neglect they will soon smoulder 

 to ashes of regret. 



Therefore, if you are a wise woman, you will from the start 

 plan a practical course by recognizing the fact that no man is an 

 angel, consequently do not expect too much. And if you would 

 make his home more attractive than any other place look well to 

 his physical comfort. See that his meals are carefully prepared 

 and served on time. You know you deceived him when you made 

 him think you the dearest, sweetest girl on earth. Now, keep up 

 the delusion. Never let him suspect that you are not. I have 

 seen just an ordinary little woman, who didn't know much — you 

 don't have to know much ; men, as a rule, are content to know it 

 all — fool her husband for thirty years and even longer and he'd 

 never find out that she wasn't the sweetest, smartest and most 

 lovable woman in the world. 



I have actually known a woman of this kind to give her 

 husband so good an impression of the sex that if he lost one 

 wife he wouldn't hesitate to marry again. You can do this if you 

 only try, why, you can wind a man around your little finger and 

 he'll never be the wiser. Men are dependent creatures. Did 

 you ever see one with a missing button or something gone 

 wrong with his suspenders ? He'll go calling through the house, 

 "Mother, Mary, come quick, I've lost a button!" Now's the op- 

 portunity to show him you're the most wonderful woman on 

 earth, for whenever a man sees another do something he can't 

 do, he thinks it marvelous. Put on your thimble and sew that 



