articlesforchristians

MARITAL ADVICE FROM THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC

• He who consults his spouse will have a good counselor. I have heard our minister say, “Women’s instincts are often truer than man’s reason.” They jump at a thing at once and are wise offhand. Say what you will of your wife’s advice, it’s likely you’ll be sorry you did not take it. 1889
• It is just as much the husband’s business “to make the home the brightest and most alluring haven of rest and peace upon all the earth” as it is the wife’s. The idea that a mother who has been
  “worked and worried to death” all day by the cares and annoyances of a household, perhaps with a sick child to nurse and in feeble health at that, should have to go beyond her powers of endurance in order to “make home attractive” to some great lubber of a husband, with muscles of an ox, the health of a whale, and the digestion of an ostrich, is utterly absurd and inhuman.-1890
• A shrewd old gentleman once said to his daughter, “Be sure, my dear, you never marry a poor man, but remember the poorest man in the world is one that has money, and nothing else.” – 1894
• A wife’s wages are love, thoughtful attentions, little courtesies. Don’t skimp on her pay. -1921
• If you are having frequent marital squabbles, you could go to see a therapist, but what might really help even more is to install a second bathroom in your house. One study found that couples with
  more than one bathroom, whether they had children or not, were less stressed and more content than those in single-bathroom homes. -1992