This isnโt as appallingly sexist as I expected it to be
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I kind of expected these to have aged worse. Some are solid - if a little obvious in modern times - advice.
And then there are the others... At least some of them are humorous; show them to your partner guys i'm sure she will appreciate them. Even if she is just a wife ๐ซ
I showed it to my wife and she laughed a bit too hard at the "devoid of colour sense" part.
were you wearing purple and green at the time?
Hey, the joker pulls it off!
Yeah, but he's also a homocidal maniac who comits mass murder.
Man, color theory is intense.
Yeah, itโs not that these are bad. Itโs that many people of the time needed to be told these in the first place.
"Even a wife is an individual". Wait what.
Very progressive for 2025, unfortunately we're heading backwards where we need this said again...
My work colleagues are fucking morons.
For real. My wife is more intelligent than my entire department combined
so like, i used to belong to a cult. they had this "what should you be looking for in a spouse" lesson and I mentioned I was looking for someone intelligent, as someone who couldn't keep up with me would be boring. i practically started a riot. like, sign a million that cult was not for me.
One of the many myriad things I adore about my wife is that she will ask me questions about things to understand them better. To the point where sheโs made me look up sources and challenge and sometimes change what I know to be true.
Well by that logic, so is your wife.
Why would you insult her like that?
That's right lady's! Don't let your man leave the house with brown boots and a black belt. Use the belt and restrain him until he gets his color's right!
DON'T say your wife wastes time in reading, even if she only reads fiction.

I guess in 1913 that was "you spend too much time watching trash TV"
My idiot brother is going through a divorce right now. I reeeealy want to send this to him
These are all don'ts. Where are some of the do's?
I'm actually surprised some of the don'ts for the husbands are good advice.
Surprisingly not the blatant misogyny I expected given the title
Though the typography has me feeling this is a potentially bit more modern than 1913, however I'm not quite sure when this sort of sans-serif tabloidy style became prevalent, so I could be completely off the mark.
It's apparently legit and from a British author named Blanche Ebbutt.
This is too damn woke for MAGA
Pfah! I sneer at your bridge-playing!
Margaret handed you your ass every week for the last month! You can't take tricks for shit.
Manliness is not purely a physical quality
Surprisingly accepting of trans men for that era

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