Such is the woman's lot which falls on every wife. It is solemn enough to make her very thoughtful and very earnest. How can she make sure that her influence over her husband will be for good. That he will be a better man, more successful in his career and more happy, because she is his wife?
Not by any mere moral posturing so as to seem to have lofty purpose and wise thoughts of life. Not by any weak resolving to help him and be an uplifting inspiration to him. Not by perpetual preaching and lecturing on a husband's duties and on manly character.
She can do it only by being in the very depths of her soul, in every thought and impulse of her heart, and in every fiber of her nature, a true and noble woman. She will make him not like what she tells him he ought to be, but like what she herself is.So it all comes back to a question of character.
J.R. Miller, Homemaking.
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