The following is an extract from a 1950’s, home economics textbook:
1. Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, have a delicious meal ready for his return. This is a way of letting him know you have been thinking of him and are concerned about his needs. Most men are hungry when they come home and the thought of a good meal (especially his favourite dish) is part of the warm welcome needed.
2. Prepare yourself. Take fifteen 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 more interesting for him. His boring day may need a lift and one of your duties is to provide it.
3. Clear away the clutter. Make one last trip through the main part of the house just before he arrives home. Gather up schoolbooks, toys, paper etc. and then run a dishcloth over the tables.
4. Over the colder months of the year, you should light a fire for him. Your husband will feel he has reached a haven of rest. It will give you a lift too; after all, catering for his comfort will provide you with immense personal satisfaction.
5. Greet him with a warm smile and show sincerity in your desire to please him. Try to make sure your home is a place of peace, order and tranquillity where your husband can renew himself in body and spirit.
6. Listen to him. You may have a dozen or more 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.
7. Make the evening his. Don’t greet him with problems, or complain if he comes home late or goes out to dinner or other places of entertainment without you. Even if he stays out all night. Count this as minor compared to what he might have gone through during the day. Instead try to understand his world of strain and pressure and his very real need to relax when at home.
8. Make him comfortable. Let him lean back in a comfortable chair or have him lie down in the bedroom. Have a drink ready for him. Arrange his pillows and offer to take off his shoes. Speak in a low, soothing and pleasant voice.
9. Don’t ask him questions about his actions or question his judgement or integrity. Remember he is the master of the house and as such will always exercise fairness and truthfulness. You have no right to question him. A good wife always knows her place!!!!!!!!!!
What do you think of that then readers’?
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