Don’t sulk when things go wrong. If you can’t help being vexed, say so, and get it over.
Don’t say she needn’t stay up for you. You know she can’t sleep until you are safe at home.
Don’t hesitate to mention when you think your wife looks especially nice. Your thinking so can give her no pleasure unless you tell your thought.
Don’t forget to trust your wife in everything – in money matters; in her relations with other men . . . Trust her to the utmost and you will rarely find your trust misplaced.
Don’t call your wife a coward because she is afraid of a spider. Probably in real danger she would be quite as brave as you.
Don’t ‘talk down’ to your wife. She has as much intelligence as you colleague at the office; she lacks only opportunity. Talk to her of anything you would talk to a man and you will be surprised how she expands.
Don’t sneer at your wife’s cookery or bridge-playing or singing, or indeed, anything else she does.
Don’t increase the work of the house by leaving all your things lying around in different places. If you are not tidy by nature, at least be thoughtful.
Don‘t try to regulate every detail of your wife’s life. Even a wife is an individual, and must be allowed some scope. – “Don’ts for Husbands and Wives, 1913”
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