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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: The Care and Feeding of Husbands HAVE you a little husband in your home? Don't snicker and look self con scious if you would stop to consider the large number of licenses taken out every year you would realise that it's quite the proper thing. These almost human com panions are becoming the rage all over the country. Didn't you go to the Husband Show at Madison Square Garden? Of course you did. And you must remember what excited rivalry, there ,was; how, no sooner did one woman choose a particular pet than every other woman in the Garden made a rush for it, whether it was the kind she wanted or not! Women are always asking what sort of a husband they should keep. Obviously it depends on what sort of an establishment you have. If you have a large Tudor mansion in the country, milesand miles from the railroad, it would be all right to keep one of the large sporting kind. Whereas if you have a tiny apartment in town it would be safe to keep one of the home loving Toy husbands. The big ones certainly are more impressive to your friends, and it is of course harder for this kind to hide from you. A great deal of shilly shallying may be avoided if you are lucky enough to be presented with some one's husband, say by some woman friend who is going abroad and doesn't care to take him with her. But generally speaking it is wiser to purchase in the open market. Subscribe to the 'Husbands' Weekly,' and keep in touch with the Shows and know which ones are taking prizes, etc. Remember that although a mongrel isn't much to look at it is apt to give as much satisfaction as a companion as a thoroughbred. There is, of course, the question of age to be considered. Shall you start in with an adult or a young one? The young ones as a rule are delightful little creatures, and if you...
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