diff --git a/docs/latex/wx/stdpaths.tex b/docs/latex/wx/stdpaths.tex
index ff39c09ebf..767709b87f 100644
--- a/docs/latex/wx/stdpaths.tex
+++ b/docs/latex/wx/stdpaths.tex
@@ -39,6 +39,10 @@ to the Apple guidelines. Again, this class doesn't help you to do it.
 This class is MT-safe: its methods may be called concurrently from different
 threads without additional locking.
 
+Note that you don't allocate an instance of class wxStandardPaths, but retrieve the 
+global standard paths object using \texttt{wxStandardPaths::Get} on which you call the 
+desired methods.
+
 \wxheading{Derived from}
 
 No base class