Thursday, March 8, 2012

248/366: Marriage circa 1913

Don'ts For Husbands
by Blanche Ebbutt:
Don't forget your wife's birthday.
Don't sneer at your wife's cookery.
Don't drop cigarette ash all over the drawing room carpet.
Don't domineer over the servants.

Don'ts For Wives
by Blanche Ebbutt:
Don't open the door for yourself when you husband is present.
Don't greet him at the door with a catalogue of the dreadful crimes committed by the servants during the day.
Don't scoff at your husband as "too old for tennis."
Don't let the house get stuffy by sitting with closed windows.


While thoroughly entertaining.
These books make me quite glad.
It is no longer 1913.

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