Semi=weekly graphic., 1899-04-01
SHOULD BE CHUMS CHARLZ NOX SAYS THAT A COUPLE SHOULD ASSIST
 ONE ANOTHER. WOMEN HAVE JUDGMENT And Lots of It Too-An Original Ar- ticle From the Pen of an
 Able Writer.
WOMEN HAVE JUDGMENT
lcopyriehted, 1899, by charIz Nox Publishing

Copyrighted, 1899, by Charlz Nox Publishing
 Bureau,)
 New York, March 29.-To see my chum." Sandwiched in on the rear platform of the trolly car one ni9ht last week with nine other hungry beings, who, like myself, were going home to dinner. I overheard one man ask another, "Well old fellow, where are you going this evening?"
 The "old fellow" a fine looking business man, for a guess about forty-five years of age, made the re- mark that I have used to introduce this week $ letter. Presently found that the chum spoken of was the mans wife, Seventy fares had been rnng in, and l couldn't help specu- lating as to how many married men on that car made "chums" of their wives. Probably nearly every man on the car had q ehum, a bosom friend, with whom le spent many of his evenings, and in whose con genial company he perched at the lunch-counter during the noon hour, or exchanged business and social condolences across the inviting re- past at one of the downtown dining clubs. And why not?
 Such social animals as men must have chums. But how many men make their wives the chief chum among all? Some do But many others dc not. They sleep at home, pay the household bills, furnish new bonnets, do the drama and whist engagements with their wives, but they do not make chums of them. There is not that old-fashioned, for better for worse, tell-you-all, honey and-hug spirit of companionship which sets them down as chums in everything. When one sees a man and wife of this kind he feels that they are experiencing some tof tht joys of that place concerning which the preachers talk as if they had been there. It is easy to imagine how these people chat together in the evening hour, how they plan anu hope and deny and enjoy, how each is interested in all the other is doing. Do You Husbands See the
 point2
 Make chum of your wife. Multi ply your common interests. Read the same book. Take an interest in what .she does. Talk over your business with her. "Humph," says man who thinks that one might as we'll talk business with child as Wth a woman. My wife's busi- ness judgment wouldn't amount to q row of pins. 1 take care of the business end of our affairs and she runs the household matters" Ex- actly. But we are curious to ask if you have taken the time in which to lay some business project before her, and have you compared your busi- ness judgment with your own? Lots of men entertain the idea that no one else in the family has any business judgment except themselves But not so with all men, fo1 some of the brightest among them consult their wiy es about business matters. Not that they talk over every detail of business with their wives, but rather that they consult them be- fore making the more important business moves, and so keep them intelligent about and interested in what concerns them both.
 Pooh-pooh as many men do and say that women simply jump at coh clusions. Very well, but take note that they have jumped at some very good conclusions by their powers of intuition, and Ialso write 1t down as fact that in many of these eases these wives can exercise et9 NSCh luusbASHlS ds lidlly or IneIr husbands who read this little talk. One of the best sell ing novels which has been published in recent years was brought out by man who took the manuscript home and got his wife's judgment concerning it.
 Several publishers had refused the manuscript, but this little woman, whose name didn't appear on the