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The Good Wife's Guide (Guys - You're gonna love this)
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/misc/days.doc ^ | 13 May 1955 | Housekeeping Monthly Magazine

Posted on 10/14/2005 10:20:29 AM PDT by add925

The good wife's guide

1. Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal ready, on time for his return. This is a way of letting him know that you have been thinking about him and are concerned about his needs. Most men are hungry when they come home and the prospect of a good meal(especially his favourite dish) is part of the warm welcome needed.

2. Prepare yourself. Take 15 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.

3. Be a little gay and a little more interesting for him. His boring day may need a lift and one of your duties is to provide it.

4. Clear away the clutter. Make one last trip through the main part of the house just before your husband arrives.

5. Gather up schoolbooks, toys, paper etc and then run a dustcloth over the tables.

6. Over the cooler months of the year you should prepare and light a fire for him to unwind by. Your husband will feel he has reached a haven of rest and order, and it will give you a lift too. After all, catering for his comfort will provide you with immense personal satisfaction.

7. Prepare the children. Take a few minutes to wash the children's hands and faces(if they are small), comb their hair and, if necessary, change their clothes. They are little treasures and he would like to see them playing the part. Minimize all noise. At the time of his arrival, eliminate all noise of the washer, dryer, or vacuum. Try to encourage the children to be quiet.

8. Be happy to see him.

9. Greet him with a warm smile and shoe sincerity in your desire to please him.

10. Listen to him. You may have a dozen important 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.

11. Make the evening his. Never complain if he comes home late or goes out to dinner, or other places of entertainment without you. Instead, try to understand his world of strain and pressure and his very real need to be at home and relax.

12. Your goal: Try to make sure your homeis a place of peace, order and tranquility where your husband can renew himself in body and spirit.

13. Dont greet him with complaints and problems.

14. Dont complain if he's late home for dinner or even if he stays out all night. Count this as minor compared to what he might have gone through that day.

15. Make him comfortable. Have him lean back in a comfortable chair or have him lie down in the bedroom. Have a cool or warm drink ready for him.

16. Arrange his pillow and offer to take off his shoes. Speak in a low, soothing and pleasant voice.

17. Dont ask him questions about his actions or question his judgment or integrity. Remember, he is the master of the house and as such will alwaysexercise his will with fairness and truthfullness. You have no right to question him.

18. A good wife always knows her place.


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To: add925
Whatsamatter ladies, loose your way?

Whatsamatter...don't know how to spell "lose"???

41 posted on 10/14/2005 10:33:14 AM PDT by paulat
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To: add925

If I came home to that, I'd turn around and go back out the door because it woule mean that I had accidentally entered someone else's house.


42 posted on 10/14/2005 10:33:22 AM PDT by George Smiley (This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
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To: add925

If I didn't make more $$ than him and we both have to work, I'd stay home and do all that.

But that ain't reality anymore....

I get home on average 2 hours after him. D'ya think he has dinner ready when I get home? :lol:

LQ


43 posted on 10/14/2005 10:33:24 AM PDT by LizardQueen (The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone.)
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To: add925

*grin*

44 posted on 10/14/2005 10:33:28 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Democrats.. Socialists..Commies..Traitors...Who can tell the difference?)
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To: add925

Heh. If I tried to get my wife to do that kind of stuff, she'd "cap me" in my sleep, and rightfully so.

/she's a better shot than I am, and she has all of the safe combinations.


45 posted on 10/14/2005 10:33:28 AM PDT by VaGunGuy
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To: Former Proud Canadian

Since divorce was difficult to obtain without fault - someone had to commit a sin of some kind or at least lie in in court about committing it - and women had few occupations in which they were employed that paid a living wage, and divorce was considered to be scandalous, the solution was to stay married but to lead separate lives from the same house. If you asked that question you'd find the rate was probably fairly similar.


46 posted on 10/14/2005 10:33:49 AM PDT by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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To: Paradox

Umm..how does "Status: Undetermined. " make it a fake doc?

And yes I read the snopes page, it can't be confirmed or denied.


47 posted on 10/14/2005 10:34:28 AM PDT by PissAndVinegar
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To: add925

It's fake, and it's old, but at least you didn't attribute it to George Carlin.


48 posted on 10/14/2005 10:34:37 AM PDT by JoJo Gunn (Help control the Leftist population. Have them spayed or neutered. ©)
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To: add925

INSTRUCTION AND ADVICE
FOR THE
YOUNG BRIDE
on the
Conduct and Procedure of the
Intimate and Personal Relationships
of the Marriage State
for the
Greater Spiritual Sanctity of this
Blessed Sacrament and the Glory of God
by
Ruth Smythers
beloved wife of
The Reverend L.D. Smythers
Pastor of the Arcadian Methodist
Church of the Eastern Regional Conference
Published in the year
of our Lord 1894
Spiritual Guidance Press
New York City



INSTRUCTION AND ADVICE FOR THE YOUNG BRIDE


To the sensitive young woman who has had the benefits of proper upbringing, the wedding day is, ironically, both the happiest and most terrifying day of her life. On the positive side, there is the wedding itself, in which the bride is the central attraction in a beautiful and inspiring ceremony, symbolizing her triumph in securing a male to provide for all her needs for the rest of her life. On the negative side, there is the wedding night, during which the bride must pay the piper, so to speak, by facing for the first time the terrible experience of sex.

At this point, dear reader, let me concede one shocking truth. Some young women actually anticipate the wedding night ordeal with curiosity and pleasure! Beware such an attitude! A selfish and sensual husband can easily take advantage of such a bride. One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: GIVE LITTLE, GIVE SELDOM, AND ABOVE ALL, GIVE GRUDGINGLY. Otherwise what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual lust.

On the other hand, the bride's terror need not be extreme. While sex is at best revolting and at worse rather painful, it has to be endured, and has been by women since the beginning of time, and is compensated for by the monogamous home and by the children produced through it.

It is useless, in most cases, for the bride to prevail upon the groom to forego the sexual initiation. While the ideal husband would be one who would approach his bride only at her request and only for the purpose of begetting offspring, such nobility and unselfishness cannot be expected from the average man.

Most men, if not denied, would demand sex almost every day. The wise bride will permit a maximum of two brief sexual experiences weekly during the first months of marriage. As time goes by she should make every effort to reduce this frequency.

Feigned illness, sleepiness, and headaches are among the wife's best friends in this matter. Arguments, nagging, scolding, and bickering also prove very effective, if used in the late evening about an hour before the husband would normally commence his seduction.

Clever wives are ever on the alert for new and better methods of denying and discouraging the amorous overtures of the husband. A good wife should expect to have reduced sexual contacts to once a week by the end of the first year of marriage and to once a month by the end of the fifth year of marriage.

By their tenth anniversary many wives have managed to complete their child bearing and have achieved the ultimate goal of terminating all sexual contacts with the husband. By this time she can depend upon his love for the children and social pressures to hold the husband in the home.

Just as she should be ever alert to keep the quantity of sex as low as possible, the wise bride will pay equal attention to limiting the kind and degree of sexual contacts. Most men are by nature rather perverted, and if given half a chance, would engage in quite a variety of the most revolting practices. These practices include among others performing the normal act in abnormal positions; mouthing the female body; and offering their own vile bodies to be mouthed in turn.

Nudity, talking about sex, reading stories about sex, viewing photographs and drawings depicting or suggesting sex are the obnoxious habits the male is likely to acquire if permitted.

A wise bride will make it the goal never to allow her husband to see her unclothed body, and never allow him to display his unclothed body to her. Sex, when it cannot be prevented, should be practiced only in total darkness. Many women have found it useful to have thick cotton nightgowns for themselves and pajamas for their husbands. These should be donned in separate rooms. They need not be removed during the sex act. Thus, a minimum of flesh is exposed.

Once the bride has donned her gown and turned off all the lights, she should lie quietly upon the bed and await her groom. When he comes groping into the room she should make no sound to guide him in her direction, lest he take this as a sign of encouragement. She should let him grope in the dark. There is always the hope that he will stumble and incur some slight injury which she can use as an excuse to deny him sexual access.

When he finds her, the wife should lie as still as possible. Bodily motion on her part could be interpreted as sexual excitement by the optimistic husband.

If he attempts to kiss her on the lips she should turn her head slightly so that the kiss falls harmlessly on her cheek instead. If he attempts to kiss her hand, she should make a fist. If he lifts her gown and attempts to kiss her anyplace else she should quickly pull the gown back in place, spring from the bed, and announce that nature calls her to the toilet. This will generally dampen his desire to kiss in the forbidden territory.

If the husband attempts to seduce her with lascivious talk, the wise wife will suddenly remember some trivial non-sexual question to ask him. Once he answers she should keep the conversation going, no matter how frivolous it may seem at the time.

Eventually, the husband will learn that if he insists on having sexual contact, he must get on with it without amorous embellishment. The wise wife will allow him to pull the gown up no farther than the waist, and only permit him to open the front of his pajamas to thus make connection.

She will be absolutely silent or babble about her housework while his huffing and puffing away. Above all, she will lie perfectly still and never under any circumstances grunt or groan while the act is in progress. As soon as the husband has completed the act, the wise wife will start nagging him about various minor tasks she wishes him to perform on the morrow. Many men obtain a major portion of their sexual satisfaction from the peaceful exhaustion immediately after the act is over. Thus the wife must insure that there is no peace in this period for him to enjoy. Otherwise, he might be encouraged to soon try for more.

One heartening factor for which the wife can be grateful is the fact that the husband's home, school, church, and social environment have been working together all through his life to instill in him a deep sense of guilt in regards to his sexual feelings, so that he comes to the marriage couch apologetically and filled with shame, already half cowed and subdued. The wise wife seizes upon this advantage and relentlessly pursues her goal first to limit, later to annihilate completely her husband's desire for sexual expression.


49 posted on 10/14/2005 10:34:37 AM PDT by Alouette (Islam gives terrorism a bad name.)
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To: RockinRight

Ha ha, that's hilarious.


50 posted on 10/14/2005 10:35:29 AM PDT by BamaGirl (The Framers Rule!)
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To: GreenEggsNHam
I hope he can run faster than the 9mm coming from my Glock.....

you fonny lady, Ham.

51 posted on 10/14/2005 10:36:05 AM PDT by George Smiley (This tagline deliberately targeted journalists.)
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To: add925

Also, If you use an emery board to sharpen your tongue, keep it out of sight.


52 posted on 10/14/2005 10:36:30 AM PDT by bert (K.E. ; N.P . Chicken spit causes flu....... Fox News)
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To: VaGunGuy

I used to miss my Ex husband – but my aim is improving!


53 posted on 10/14/2005 10:36:53 AM PDT by Caramelgal (My Tag Line is "Tag You're It")
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To: rintense

Ann Coulter in intellect, June Cleaver in household management and Vanessa Del Rio in the bedroom. That's my fantasy.


54 posted on 10/14/2005 10:36:55 AM PDT by Clemenza (Gentlemen, Behold!)
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To: Paradox
You have to be careful about Snoops. When you wade through their words about an item, to the conclusion it's not valid, more than likely, like this one, the conclusion is simply their opinion, and usually a liberal opinion.

What this one adds up to is that they can find no evidence to prove its real.

55 posted on 10/14/2005 10:37:03 AM PDT by William Terrell (Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
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To: PissAndVinegar
I read the snopes page, it can't be confirmed or denied.

The alleged original graphic looks like it was typed up on the same typesetting machine that produced the CBS ANG memos.

56 posted on 10/14/2005 10:37:17 AM PDT by Alouette (Islam gives terrorism a bad name.)
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To: RockinRight

5. Invite your hot friend to come over and join you


57 posted on 10/14/2005 10:37:27 AM PDT by misterrob
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To: Alouette

I would bet that The Reverend L.D. Smythers had some on the side.


58 posted on 10/14/2005 10:37:29 AM PDT by Former Proud Canadian (.)
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To: Junior

an "in your dreams" ping.

Although I do know one guy whose wife has the being gay thing down pat. Unfortunately for him it means her girlfriend lives with them and he gets none from her.

Good thing his girlfriend doesn't live far away.

I'm not making this up. Really.


59 posted on 10/14/2005 10:37:34 AM PDT by cjshapi
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To: Clemenza

"Be a little gay and a little more interesting for him.

(8 year old voice) Huhhuh. She said "Gay.""


I wonder if, in 1955, anybody read that an immediately thought - "Girl/girl that would be a nice way to greet me when I come home." Maybe it's just me.


60 posted on 10/14/2005 10:37:59 AM PDT by gondramB (Conservatism is a positive doctrine. Reactionaryism is a negative doctrine.)
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