The
good husband is a thankful man
The word husband has several meanings. It denotes a tiller of the soil, a farmer, or a
manager of economic affairs. It also means a director, a rector, and, more commonly,
the head of a family. And hus- bandry is a word for agriculture, farming, or frugality.
For thousands of years man was primarily a tiller of the soil and was very close to
nature. He worked hard on land and lived frugally.
The name husband was then equivalent to a provider, or the supporter of a family. But of
course, the most common definition of husband today is "a man who has a wife",
in this brief essay, attention is primarily centered on a husband’s relations with
his wife. |
