The
Good Wife’s Guide - from ‘Housekeeping
Monthly’ 13 May 1955
Have
dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night
before, to have a delicious meal ready for your husband’s return. Let him know that you have been thinking
about him and are concerned about his needs.
Prepare
yourself. Take 15 minutes to rest so
you’ll be refreshed when he arrives. Touch up your make-up; put a ribbon in your hair. Be a little gay and a little more interesting
to him. It is your duty to provide a
lift for him.
Clear
away the clutter. Gather up school books
and dust the tables. Light a fire. Catering for his comforts will provide you
with immense personal satisfaction. Prepare the children, washing their hands and faces and combing their
hair. They are little treasures and he
would like to see them playing the part. Minimise all noise. Encourage the
children to be quiet. Don’t have the
washer, drier or vacuum running when he comes in.
Be
happy to see him. Greet him with a warm
smile and show sincerity in your desire to please him. Let him talk. Remember, his topics of conversation are more important than yours.
Make
the evening his. Never complain if he
comes home late or goes out to dinner or other places of entertainment without
you. Try to make sure your home is a
place of peace and tranquillity where your husband can renew himself body and
soul.
Don’t
greet him with complaints and problems. Don’t complain if he’s late home for dinner or even if he stays out all
night. Have a cool or warm drink waiting
for him.
Arrange
his pillow and offer to take off his shoes. Speak in a low, soothing and pleasant voice. Don’t ask him questions about his actions or
question his judgement or integrity. Remember he is the master of the house and as such will always exercise
his will with fairness and truthfulness.
You
have no right to question him. A good
wife always knows her place.
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Ah! The Good Old Days!
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Your
comments, please!
For
my part, I’d like to know what homes had ‘a washer, a drier and a vacuum’ that
was power-driven in 1955? We’ve had a
tumble drier here only in recent years!
Apart
from that I can find little remarkable at all in this article!
Emancipation has brought far more problems
than solutions!
PS Guess which of the two of us added these comments that follow the article proper!
