Still don't believe that people are evolving every day? Read the text below that explains how to be a good wife. This was a normal high school reading in the 1950s. Today, most people would laugh at such idiocracy.
HOW TO BE A GOOD WIFE
Home Economics High School Text Book, 1954
- Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal, on time. 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 prospects of a good meal are part of the warm welcome needed.
- Prepare yourself. Take 15 minutes to rest so that you'll be refreshed when he arrives. Touch up your makeup, put a ribbon in your hair and be fresh-looking. He has just been with a lot of work-weary people. Be a little gay and a little more interesting. His boring day may need a lift.
- Clear away the clutter. Make one last trip through the main part of the home just before your husband arrives, gather up schoolbooks, toys, paper, etc. Then run a dust cloth over the tables. Your husband will feel he has reached a haven of rest and order, and it will give you a lift, too.
- 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, dishwasher, or vacuum. Try to encourage the children to be quiet. Be happy to see him. Greet him with a warm smile and be glad he is home.
- Listen to him. You may have a dozen things to tell him, but the moment of his arrival is not the time. Let him talk first.
- Make the evening his. Never complain if he does not take you out to dinner or to other places of entertainment. Instead, try to understand his world of strain and pressure, his need to be home and relax.
- Some don'ts: Don't greet him with problems or complaints. Don't complain if he is late for dinner. Count this as minor compared with what he might have gone through that day. Make him comfortable. Have him lean back in a comfortable chair or suggest he lie down in the bedroom. Have a cool or warm drink ready for him. Arrange his pillow and offer to take off his shoes. Speak in a low, soft, soothing and pleasant voice. Allow him to relax and unwind.
- The Goal: Try to make your home a place of peace and order where your husband can renew himself in body and spirit.
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Comments: 15
Does this mean my girlfriend has to be femme too?
This was a time when people believed in the golden rule and actually applied it. When both husband and wife give 150% when trying to go out of their way to meet the needs of their spouse and children, the home stays functional. So called 50/50 partnership marriages tend to fail. When one member feels they are giving 50% the other sees it as 10%.
It's sad that women are taught in order to be "important" they must have a job outside the home. Being a house wife can be the most rewarding career a woman can experience. It is still possible for a family to survive on one income. I know of many families that do it. They seem to be very happy and content people. It is amazing that we think we need a lot of "stuff." How many cars does one family really need. Do they have to be new or late model vehicles? Does every room in the house need a TV with cable access? Does every member in th family need their own phone? How many parents know how to prepare a real homecook meal to feed their kids instead of feeding them convient processed foods or just take them out to eat. How many parents actually sit down with their kids and ask them about what they are learning in school? How many kids spend more time at daycare, the babysitters, and school than with their parents? Why has it become the governments job to feed, educate, discipline, provide healthcare, and social services for children? Didn't God give that responsibility to parents?
WHERE is some appreciation for what a housewife goes through mainly when she is mom to small kids?
And garbage like, encourage the children to be quiet...... shudder. Children are there to be seen sometimes and not heard and if they are nice and quiet or peacefully sleeping they are daddies kids and when they are loud or ill or just have a bad days they are MUMS KIDS:
I also know that crap of children shut up your father comes through the door from viewing this in my extended family in the 60s.
What lucky person am I having grown up under my moms custody after her divorce so I never had to experience that heartless bullshit as a child
The husband is NO MONARCH and NO GOD.
Both husband and wife worked the whole day long and worked hard so why should the wife be the doormat. Leah is right.
That is f***ing hilarious!