A Good Wife's Guide - Article from 1955

[DevilDog#1]

The Good Wife's Guide

From Housekeeping Monthly, 13 May, 1955.

Note: This article may actually be a fake. It has also been listed as coming from a High School Home Economics class.

* Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal ready on time for his return. This is a way of letting him know that you have be thinking about him and are concerned about his needs. Most men are hungry when they get home and the prospect of a good meal is part of the warm welcome needed.
* 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.
* 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.
* Clear away the clutter. Make one last trip through the main part of the house just before your husband arrives. Run a dustcloth over the tables.
* During 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 to his comfort will provide you with immense personal satisfaction.
* Minimize all noise. At the time of his arrival, eliminate all noise of the washer, dryer or vacuum. Encourage the children to be quiet.
* Be happy to see him.
* Greet him with a warm smile and show sincerity in your desire to please him.
* 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.
* Don't greet him with complaints and problems.
* Don't complain if he's late for dinner or even if he stays out all night. Count this as minor compared to what he might have gone through at work.
* Make him comfortable. Have him lean back in a comfortable chair or lie him down in the bedroom. Have a cool or warm drink ready 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 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.
* A good wife always knows her place.

I wonder how many of these are true now. Anyone want to take a stab?

[Hellfighter]

can't say i go for that even if it says it the stander, more like adlive to me, beside that was the time women did not have much right like voting for other and getting a good pay.

sterio type back them days women of today have a fair shack on life and are good as men are.

i don't go for that at all. men and women can cook as good as each other and as bad as ever too

this day of age it all bull.

i think if some one tell this to their wife they say nice to know you bye for good or pay me to do them things.

[tail_gunner]

Yeah, thats what you want your wife to be like, if she had no brain?

[JonM]

that's more like i'm marrying a worker, instead of a wife. i'm glad that we've evolved in the last 50 years.

[ShArP]

Originally posted by tail_gunner
Yeah, thats what you want your wife to be like, if she had no brain?

agree

[DevilDog#1]

Originally posted by tail_gunner
Yeah, thats what you want your wife to be like, if she had no brain?

I wish I was in 50s!

[VooDoo-]

well .. duh .. and if they misbehave you beat them.

oh god that's horrible haha ..Im just kidding .. I'm completely against hitting women .. most of the time ...

[DevilDog#1]

I was thinking more in terms of less yack yack at home ...

[ShArP]

Originally posted by DevilDog#1
I was thinking more in terms of less yack yack at home ...

AMEN!!

even thought i am not married my girlfriend does enough of it lol

[Hellfighter]

you know a women talk and talk but in the end you still got to love them.

they can say the same thing about men as will, always talking about work and drinking stinking beer all day long not going out have fun anymore.

funny to think about not being marry your love life and fun time is on the highend, get marry fun time cut 98% not there! looking at the same face year after year gets real old and boring. goes both ways

[ShArP]

yea and they atleast give you something to talk about, and my girlfriend complains, even on AIM, if i ain't talking lol