Illustration from magazine of the late 19th century: "how to behave As a good wife"
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PictolicThe network actively discussing the illustrations to the magazine of the nineteenth century, which is sort of tutorial about "how to behave as a good wife." According to these rules it is assumed that the wife should carry her husband on a bike and meet him outside of work, seeing home. Illustration leaked long ago, but now they began to discuss with a new force.
For example, the manual offers his wife to "wipe husband mouth and mustache with a napkin" and encouraged him to eat at home, so that he "did not attempt to eat lunch in the restaurant." Also "the good wife" the 19th century was to chase away the flies from her husband while he sleeps after lunch.
All other rules are also aimed at the fact that his wife got all possible ways to please her husband and keep him entertained. Including to invite a "cute girlfriends" and to pose for him in the form of nymphs.








User comments divided into several categories. Some jokingly support the rules and offer modern women to learn in female. Others remember about feminism and the infringement of women's rights, others oppose such "rules", even considered a joke.
What do you think about these rules?
Keywords: 19th century | Marriage | Wife | Illustrations | Husband | Advice
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