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I don't often post these news clips but I found this one to be rather a interesting. Fred

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nothing changes, nothing changes.Don't back stitch to email, just stitchit.THE GOOD WIFE'S GUIDEby Angela & John Harvey from Housekeeping Monthly

  1. Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal ready, on time for his return. This is letting him know that you have been thinking about him and are concerned about his needs. Most men are hungry when they come home and the prospect of good meal (especially his favourite dish) is part of the warm welcome needed.
  2. 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 and be fresh-looking. He has just been with a lot of work-weary people
  3. Be a little gay and a little more interesting for him. His boring day may need a lift and one of your duties is to provide it.
  4. Clear away the clutter. Make one last trip through the main part of the house just before your husband arrives.
  5. Gather up school books, toys, paper etc and then run a dust-cloth over the tables,
  6. Over the cooler months of the year you should prepare and light a fire for him to unwind by. Your husband will feel he has reached a haven of rest and order, and it will give you a lift too. After all, catering for his comfort will provide you with immense personal satisfaction.
  7. Prepare the children. Take a few minutes to wash the children's hands and faces (it they are small), comb their hair and, if necessary, change their clothes. They are little treasures and he would like to see them playing the part. Minimise all noise. At the time of his arrival, eliminate all noise of the washer, dryer or vacuum. Try to encourage the children to be quiet .
  8. Be happy to see him
  9. Greet him with a warm smile and show sincerity in your desire to please him.
  10. Listen to him. You may have a dozen important things to tell him, but the moment of his arrival is not the time. Let him talk first remember, his topics of conversation are more important than yours.
  11. Make the evening his. Never complain if he comes home late or goes out to dinner, or other places of entertainment without you. Instead, try to understand his world of strain and pressure and his very real need to be at home and relax.
  12. Your goal: Try to make sure your home is a place of peace, order and tranquility where your husband can renew himself in body and spirit.
  13. Don't greet him with complaints and problems.
  14. Don't complain if he's late home for dinner or even if he stays out all night. Count this as minor compared to what he might have gone through that day.

  1. Make him comfortable. Have him lean back to a comfortable chair or have him lie down in the bedroom. Have a cool or warm drink ready for him.

  1. Arrange his pillow and offer to take off his shoes. Speak in a low, soothing and pleasant voice.
  2. Don't ask him questions about his actions or question his judgment 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.
  3. A good wife always knows her place.
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Fred
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How like my own life at home.......... *Not* Although I *do* like to keep my ribbons ironed........ Lol

Reply to
Parrotfish

Heehee - and the Good Husband knows when it is wiser to shut up !!!!

Reply to
lucretia borgia

Anyone want to guess what year/decade this was originally written in? ;-)

-- Carey in MA

Reply to
Carey N.

I think around 1943 as I have a pdf about how to hire a woman in that year and the two things equate very well lol

I must try and see if I can un-pdf it and post here.

Reply to
lucretia borgia

I think I also have it in one of my old, OLD needlecraft books from long ago. Frances

Reply to
'Nez

It was written in the 1950's. It's not that I'm so bright, it's that Fred and I read the same newsgroups.

Lucille

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Reply to
Lucille

I apologize for adding to my own post but here's the info on date:

Housekeeping Monthly 13 May 1955)

Reply to
Lucille

The problem was the women you know. They tasted freedom during the war years, working at jobs normally done by men, were so good at it that they no longer wished to stay home.

Then back came the men from war and women were supposed to be nice and docile again and Housekeeping Monthly and others proceeded to tell them how to 'keep your man happy' - bleh bleh bleh !

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lucretia borgia

Remember when you were supposed to run around the house with a dust rag while you were singing happily and you were dressed in high heels and a pretty cotton dress, with a frilly white apron that needed major ironing?

Lucky me I was too young to be caught in that trap, but all the young housewives on TV were dressed that way.

Reply to
Lucille

This also makes the assumption that the family (plus children) is surviving nicely on only one income. Would that it were so! Then I too could stay home and iron ribbons (and stitch, and read, and do my thing) before a quick dust-off and popping a meal in the microwave!

(THIS IS MEANT TO BE HUMOROUS)

Pat in Illinois

Reply to
Pat in Illinois

1953 or perhaps 1853

Elizabeth

Reply to
Dr. Brat

Ah, yes, how lucky for me that "how to keep my man happy" included earning enough money so that he didn't have to work.

Reply to
Karen C in California

You might enjoy reading Biting the Dust , the joys of housework , by Margaret Horsefield , Fourth Estate, 1997.

mirjam

Reply to
mirjam

Sounds like 1953 continuing the 1853 mentality!

-- Carey in MA

Reply to
Carey N.

I repeat, it was taken from "Housekeeping Monthly 13 May 1955."

Those were the days when Betty Furness was in an ad for Westinghouse and dancing around hysterically happy, in high heels, a cotton fitted dress, a little apron and the biggest smile on her face, all because she owned a refrigerator.

Whoopee!!!!

Reply to
Lucille

I saw your post about the date; thanks. (My comment was supposed to be tongue-in-cheek.) I had thought it had to be around that time. Made me remember June Cleaver on TV, and a couple of other shows around that time. (That was also around when my father worked for the Westinghouse Appliance division, before moving to their lamp division as a salesman.)

I suppose I shouldn't make too much fun of someone who's happy to own a refrigerator: just realized it was only 8 years ago I got a dryer (14 for the washer) and I wouldn't want to be without either by any stretch of the imagination!!

Happy stitching!

-- Carey in MA

Reply to
Carey N.

You`d better be leaving the district, Fred, before some of us come and give you a good kicking!!!!!!!

Pat

Reply to
Pat P

And if he doesn't know how to warm up a frozen pasta and cheese meal in an oven he doesn't give his DW a copy of the guide to read. I'm still eating well. LOL

Fred

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Fred

Hey you are not supposed to beat up the messenger!! LOL

Fred

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