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Give The Wife A Rest

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Day
19
Month
July
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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What the good man may do for his thin wife is, first, to give her three months' rest. Not to take her forcibly away from her cares, to live at a crowded resort aud worry over the home left behind, but to see that things are set right and to her mind before she goes. Many a woman never knows what it is to have anything her own way from girlhood to funeral, and this constant denial of preferences drives the nails in any woman's coffin. If she wants particular sanitary arrangement about the house, or a new garden, or some unpleasant inmate provided for, let her have it if she is worth keeping alive. Then with household affairs to her mind, let her go where she can wear a plain dress all day, and lie on a lawn cot, which is safer and easier than a hammock, which has a trick of coming down and breaking women's backs. It would be the greatest earthly luiury for a great many worn women to be able to go to bed at sundown and leep enough to make up for years of watctaing and

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Old News
Ann Arbor Register