20 Quotes by Blanche Ebbutt

Don't try to model your husband on some other woman's husband. Let him be himself and make the best of him.

Don't set your husband up on a pedestal and then cry when you find that he is only an ordinary man, after all.

Don't put on airs with your husband. If you can't act natural with him, you shouldn't have married him.Don't expect your husband to be an angel. You would get very tired of him if he were.Don't boast of your husband's money or birth or cleverness to your friends. It's nearly as bad as boasting your own.Don't tell all your women friends of your husband's faults but--Don't din his perfections into the ears of every woman you meet. Be satisfied to enjoy them.

Don't always refuse to go shopping with your wife. Of course it's a nuisance, but sometimes she honestly wants your advice, and you ought to be pleased to give it.

Don’t set your husband up on a pedestal and then cry when you find that he is only an ordinary man, after all.

Don’t forget to wish your husband good-morning when he sets off to the office. He will feel the lack of your good-bye kiss all day.

Don’t expect to drop into matrimonial harmony with the end of the honeymoon; you have not thoroughly learned to know each other’s foibles by that time.

Don’t allow yourself to get into the habit of dressing carelessly when there is ‘only’ your husband to see you. Depend upon it he has no use for faded tea-gowns and badly dressed hair, and he abhors the sight of curling pins as much as other men do. He is a man after all, and if his wife does not take the trouble to charm him, there are plenty of other women who will.

Don’t brood; that way madness lies. Don’t hesitate, if you catch yourself brooding, to ‘take a day off’ in the best way you can. Go out and gossip with your friend; get to a theatre where there is a play that will make you laugh; or try a concert or a cinema show – anything that will take you out of yourself. Take the brooding habit in time before it gets too strong a hold of you.