Don'ts

Art is a hard mistress, and there is no art quite so hard as that of being a wife.

So many women exhaust their artistic power in getting married, which is, after all, a comparatively easy business. It takes a perfect artist to remain married - married in the perfect sense of the term; but most of us have to be content to muddle through. - from the preface

Don't worry about the little faults in your husband which merely amused you in your lover. If they were not important then, they are not important now. Besides, what about yours? - from  Chapter I,  Personalities 

from Don'ts for Wives, 1913 by Blanche Ebbutt