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Bodleian Libraries - How to be a Good Husband
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• The art of being a good husband is not an easy one.
• This little guide was written for the middle classes of the 1930s who were reading one of the first modern self-help books. Illustrated with contemporary line-drawings, it contains advice by turns delightfully arcane and timelessly true, for example:
Don't squeeze the tube of toothpaste from the top instead of from the bottom.
• This is one of the small things of life that always irritates a careful wife.
Don't think that your wife has placed waste-paper baskets in the rooms as ornaments.
• Don't tell your wife terminological inexactitudes, which are, in plain English, lies. A woman has wonderful intuition for spotting even minor departures from the truth.
• Do cultivate the habit of coming down to breakfast with a smile. Remember that as the head of the house, it is your duty to see that everyone starts the day in an atmosphere of happiness.
• Don't criticise the food at your own table when you are entertaining and especially refrain from doing so before the servants.
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