The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-06-23

end socks to their wives, and, indeed, /
know a few husbands whose wives select
their shirts and trousers for them. Ana
the reason of this Is not because they
are too busy with business cares or that
they do not take an interest in their per
sonal appearance, but because they nave
confidence in the taste and good judg-
nent of women folk and are willing 10
rely on It,"
"A lot of them would be better dressed
If they followed that idea," l suggested,
having in mind man | met the other
| day who had on brown suit with
watermelon pink shirt, tan shoes ana
green tie.
II have in my mind man whose wife
| was Ill for q long time with typhoid
| fey err" related the woman. During her
long siege of illness his stock Of ties and
| hose became rather depleted. His mother,
be 1t known, had selected his ties be-
fore his marriage, and his good wife ever
afterward. So he watched with heart
sickness one after another of his ties
grow shabby and unwearable. Finally he
was forced to go to a shop to buy some
cravats, the first he had ever purchased
for himself. At first he had thought he
would ask his stenographer to do it for
him, but soon dismissed the idea because
he was afraid she would think him silly.
So on a bright, pretty day he went and
put himself upon the mercy OF the haber-
dasher. He found tie that closely re-
sembed one his wife had bought for him
year before, and while 1t was not ds
up-to-date as many others according TO
the haberdasher's advice, still it was Ter
taste, and so he bought 1t. He showed
1t to his stenographer, his wife and his
mother-in-law before he would wear 1t,
fearful of his taste or lack of it in such
matters, and delivered d long dissertation
upon the fact that he would never buy
another tie to adorn his lordly person
with without his wife's assistance"
II really think the indictment that the
American man leaves the education of
his boys and the love affairs of his daugh-
ters to his wife is very unjust L de-
clared.
ut is absolutely untrue said the
woman. ut is a well established fact that
the American man makes a boon COM
panion of his boys Even If apparently
his wife takes a more direct interest in
the education of his children, 1t is not
because he negects them In most cases
he 1t is who makes the important de-
cision as to what schools they shall at
tend, leaving the mere extraneous details
to his wife. who for that reason often
gets the credit for the whole thing. And
as for the love affairs of his daughter,
the American father realizes thoroughly.
as he should, that his wife Is better
versed in affairs of the heart than he is.
But when 1t comes to unwelcome suitors
he is just as capable of forcefully eiecting
them from his parental roof as the best
Englishman or Frenchman that ever
| lived.'
(which is not a matter of geography,
but devoted love, on the part of the right
sort of parent, | suggested.
What the writer might have criticised
since she is in mood for criticism" said
the woman In conclusion, sis the Amer
lean mother who has no time to give her
family. Society, embracing teas, lunch
cons. receptions, bridge, the social settle
ment germ, all forms of fads and fancies,
writing learned papers for literary and
charitable clubs on high and mighty sub
| jects. when she Is not fetching and car
rying top boots and blankets to the ma
| tiyes of Zululand. working and shaving
over things more strenuously than did the
| Spartans of old, none of which edfies her
home life nor brings about the sweet
home atmosphere which is SO necessary.
And yet 1t is women comfortably stu
ated In life as these are that would con-
stitute our leisure cass-if we had
| one"