Omaha daily bee., 1915-07-08
A Square Deal for
Husbands
by BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

ITS a mans world" says the average
woman. with a saucy flirt of her skirts
and proceeds 20 disprove her assertion
It's everybodys world-and the spirit
OF fair play and chivslry and OF age-old
desire TO protect those he cares for makes
! Il particularly pleasant place for
women-unless these foolish sisters choose
20 cast ia their lots with brutes instead OF
men, and from this point OF disadvantage
to arralgn forevermore ell manhood.
Any women who marries a sane. decent.
hard-working, law-abiding, moral citizen
can have happy marriage II she chooses
TO make Il so. Tho atmosphere OF the
home Is the wifc's business even rs the
pay envelope il the husbands The wifc
who works out and helps support the
household owes II little extra atten-
ton. too.
II you can earn $50 week. madam,
and so can afford TO hire s. cook to do
the work you find uncongenial, II is at
least Up 20 you TO see that you have a
good cook.
Most men are little boys. And as such
they like TO be petted a bit and coaxed
into amiabllity with goodies and kind
words They don't like to he nsgged at
or 10 be urged into doing things they find
hopeleSSly CnOongenial
Men cannot understand the awe-struck
attitude Of thei women folk over What
will people say" No sane man would
dream OF Eoing off TO the country and
WORKING In hot, stuffy bedrooms for
three weeks IN order 10 impress the
Smiths and Browns with his social post
ton rs one who was affluent enough TO
take a sumner outing.
HI.
nag at him until he does it perforce-and
with very bad grace because Of the saw
ings Il wastes ana the extra work and
worry Il means. And then they Judge
him an n stingy old tyrant and feel
abused. The really abused person is the
poor "tyrant."
Men are not orderly beings They
fling the ten sections OF the Sunday
newspaper all about the living room
and scatter cigar ashes about the car
pets and ornaments, There Is no object
In goadinE them to fury by cold re-
marks as to how hard. YOU work TO
make their home attractive. They just
naturally scatter cigar ashes and Sunday
supplements, even as YOU drop occa-
hional hairpins and handkerohiefs.
But men are clean creatures. They
don't stragEle frowsily about the home
In down-at-the-heel slippers and torn and
soiled garments. The woman who Is 30
busy saving her clothes for the stranger
within her gates that she habitually
appears before her husband I'm torn kim
monos may defend herself by complaining
that John goes unshaven half the time.
Well-what's sauce for the gander is
often sauce for the goose John may
have appeared unshaven before Mahy in
their courtship days. And Mary accepted
his excuse that II made his face sore TO
shave every day. Rut John never saw
Mary In kimono that was six months
away from its last seeuce with the wash
tub
II he had. there would have heen no
wedding bells for Mary-for men are
born beauty worshippers. And women
marry them knowing this-and calmly
proceed TO dephive them of beauty In
everyday life and then to wonder why
they wander Efield seeking the lovliness
that friend wife supplied when she was
only friend"
Kindness. encouragement, sympathy
these are what the average man Graves.
He marries for them-and love in IFS
nrst glow. And the glow OF love would
Keep on a-glimmering IL only women were
less reniss about supplying the kindress,
reimbursement and sympathy that the
little boy who is a husband. too, wants