Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-09-30
Are You an "Uh huh" Man?

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everything. and then some things are
left for discovery every day. Thus
the editor of Pictorial Review has dis
covered that he is a thoughtless hus-
band who answers his wife with
ten so wildly and forcefully upon the
subject, that he has set a lot more of
generation of old grunters We arc,
anyway. For all we know, the editor
and writing from the other side of the
fence, but the editorial seemed 50
demnatory, that we sized it up as the
discovery of one who has looked at his
back in a mirror and thought he saw
bristles. BE that as ii may he has
Jared the rest of us who We're too
busy with our thoughts and pet air
castles to remember that our wives
like to be chummed with tonight just
as much as in the honeymoon or early
eourtship. Indeed that Pictorial Re
view chap has aroused q train Of
thought as big as an Aroostook potato
train-and it's growing. However.
let's let him stir you up. Here is
part of it;
If you are an ineonsiderate. unthink
ing husband of monosyllabic replies,
and terse rejoinders. what follows Will
make you blush and perhaps. ponder:
THE name of that particular brand
of husband is Legion. Just because
he has provided shelter, food and raj
ment for the mother of his children, he
pats himself on the back and proceeds
to reward himself with an evening
paper and his favorite brand of to-
baeeo,
He goes even further. He thinks
how grateful his wife should be that
he is not like other men who go to the
club or play pool or bowl, spending
night after night away from home.
If | could hand wives the key that
would unlock the door of confirmed
selfishness, | would unquestionablJ J
ANSWER by the thousand the unwrittcn
question of many wives. Perhaps
you do not believe this statement.
Well suppose you make tour of your
| own noighborhood Peer behind porch
vines or between curtains. In nine
cases out of ten, on the porch a coat
less, perhaps collarless man and .
dainty, freshly gowned woman. The
man is smoking and doing or staring
into space. The woman is making
pretense of reading or sewing, but sh+
is furtively watching for signs of ami
nation in the man who, il he would
could be the very orbit of her happi-
mess.
Or on cooler evenings, see the mar
| by the light of the well-filed LAM
buried in the easiest chair with his
evening paper and with the wife still
in waiting. How many "ladies-in
waiting" there are who never set FOO
in the palace of happiness which thee
appointment by marriage promised,
And why?
The question has been answered re-
peatedly since marriage was ordained
and still the modern man ignores th'
reply because it suits his selfish con
yenence so to do.
The man forgets that happiness !,
marriage for the average modern wo
| man is founded not on shelter, foot
raiment, or even Injuries, but on Small
| attentions which the average mai
| withholds, because in his inferior wis
dom. he pronounces them, fool no
tions." A woman reyels in the sens
of being essential TO man. A MAJ
hates TO admit that she is essential
A woman Will wear patched shoes an,
| dyed frocks to help her husband sue
coed in business, provided he confide
his every business detail at the end G
the days work. husband who tell
his wife every evening that she is tn
best little woman in the world 9TH
word little" is vitally important) an,
kisses her full on the lips instead o
on her hair or the tip of her ear vii
find her ready to sell Grandmother
lpearls to save him from bankruptcy.
Making love To his own wife is
lspiendid investment for Il man, ma
,teriaiiy OF sentimentaliy. Yet mej