ADVICE TO HUSBANDS. 71 



In conclusion, we would say that those wives who incorporate 

 the foregoing suggestions into their domestic life will seldom have 

 occasion to charge their husbands with infidelity to them. Besides, 

 the health of both parties will thereby be very much promoted, for 

 domestic infelicity invites disease. 



To make Home Pleasant Endeavor to make the home 

 of your husband pleasant and alluring. Let it be to him a haven 

 of rest, to which he may turn from the weary trials and vexations 

 of business. Make it to him a repose from care; a shelter from 

 the outside world ; a home, not for his person only, but for his heart, 

 where he may find his greatest comfort. Should he be, at times, 

 discouraged and dejectea from the battles of life, soothe and com- 

 fort him. If his difficulties or ills make him petulant, soothe him; 

 enter feelingly into his vexations, make his trials your own, and 

 thus arm him to fight the battle for both. Make due allowance at 

 these times for the frailties of human nature. As a wife, you 

 should lend a helping hand in his struggles for the maintenance of 

 the household, as much can be done in the domestic economy to 

 lighten his burden. 



TO HUSBANDS. 



WHY WIVES BECOME UNFAITHFUL. 



If a husband be indifferent as to his wife's affection for him, 

 let him become obscene in his language, coarse and un- 

 couth in his manners, and especially toward her, and he will soon 

 accomplish the object of dampening the ardor of her love for him. 

 And let there be coupled with this the intemperate use of spirituous 

 liquors and he can scarcely fail to quench the last embers of her af- 

 fection for him. The husband who is guilty of these indiscretions 

 should not demand nor expect the regard and love that are ordinar- 

 ily due from the wife to the husband ; for they have been justly 

 forfeited. If she be a sensitive, affectionate woman, she may 

 regret the loss of affection as much or more than he, and it may 

 have caused her many an hour of sorrow and anguish of spirit. Nor 

 is this all; if the husband is continually meeting his wife with re- 

 proaches or allowing himself to be irritable in his intercourse with 

 her, can he expect to be recompensed with fond affection? Scarcely, 

 if his wife were an angel from the abodes of heaven. For the 

 husband, through indolence and negligence, to fail to provide his 

 wife and family with the necessary comforts of life, is another 

 course that tends to alienate her affections. And should he at any 

 time have reason to suspect her fidelity to him, he should carefully 

 scrutinize his own actions, for some one or all of the above causes 

 may have been the chief factor in bringing about this deplorable 

 condition of affairs. 



Every husband should extend towards his wife a certain 

 degree of liberality ; le"t her have money to make her various little 



