I found this book in the rental house I moved into with my SO. It includes some lovely watercolour plates illustrating childbirth, and a large variety of questionable home remedies.
It also has a section on Making Marriage A Success This includes advice such as
"Both have years before them to weave into one harmonious life-pattern. This can be accomplished only through the exercise of mutual love and forbearance, the sharing of joys and sorrows, and the reciprocal surrender of what one is prone to call one's "rights""
"The possession of a sunny disposition is indeed a wife's most valuable asset"
"So wholesome and attractive may the home be made by a content cheerful woman, that the husband will leave it with reluctance, and will return to it at night with naught but thoughts of quietness and peace."
And my personal favourite...
"No doubt the foundation of a happy home lies very largely in the kitchen. Too often have ill-cooked dinners put asunder that which God hath joined together."
The chapter also emphasises that a good wife will always look after her own health.
This may be written in a quaint and old fashioned style, but I believe the message is still relevant, and somewhat lovely.
Share your lives and don't keep score.
Be pleasant to be around.
Keep your house tidy, and give him a soft place to land at the end of a hard day at work.
Learn to cook at least one or two meals well!
I just rediscovered this today, and thought I would share the common knowledge of the 30's on how to create a good marriage. Perhaps knowledge that is a little more difficult to find in 2016. I wonder what the 2016 edition of the "Ladies Handbook of Home Treatment" would read like...
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