1964 Awake! - Theocratic Collector.com

"h is already the hour for you to awake."
-I:O .. Clft, .ll'll
Volume XL-V L.ondon, England, September 8, 1814 Number 17
o YOU walk several
D feet ahead of your
wife to show your position
as head of the
house? Or do you speak
disparagingly of your
wife to others out of fear
that kind words would
imply that you are "henpecked"? Believe
it or not, this is the practice in some communities.'
You may agree that the man
should be head of the house, but still you
probably say, "That's taking headship a
little too far."
Nevertheless, in a society where the
family is the basic unit it is proper that a
man should take his responsibility as family
head seriously. Some family heads,
though, have difficulty in adjusting themselves
to the home envirorunent because
of the highly competitive atmosphere in
which they must work all day, where
the big-man-kick-little-man attitude often
alienates the overseer from his fellow workers,
The boss wants to get as much out of
his men as he can, while the men want to
get as much out of the boss as they can.
His presence will stimulate activity, but
will not always be welcome. Perhaps you
would like to improve conditions under
which you work but ate not in pOSition to
SEPTEMBER 8, 1964
do so. However, you can
do something about conditions
in the home
where you are the head.
Your homecoming can be
something that the whole
family looks forward to,
or it can be a time when
your wife says, "Look out, kids, your father's
coming!"
Something that makes any of us feel
good is when the boss comes along, notices
the good work we are doing and commends
us. Nothing is more discoW'aging than always
to have one's mistakes noticed and
bad work returned, while good work seemingly
goes unnoticed, taken for granted.
When we stop to think about it, we know
that we are getting paid for doing the job
right, but we still appreciate a little pat on
the back. Now, if a husband feels that way,
would it not be reasonable to conclude that
a wife does too?
She will soon sense it if her housekeeping
and cooking are being taken for granted.
She works hard to have the house
clean and the meal ready on time. Perhaps
she has spent a lot of time looking through
magazines to find a new recipe. She has
changed her dress and tidied her hair, and
now here comes her husband. Coat thrown
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