Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-09-29
HUSBAND
|. FORMULA OUTLINED
BY RUTH SNYDER

NEW YORK-"The triumph of
feminism does not lie in the acqui-
| sition Of the vote or in the entrance
| of woman into the professions. These
| are minor matters compared to the
tanning of man"
DR.. Abraham Myerson, author of
1.-THE Nervous Housewife" pcnned
this opinion in an article published
in the September issue of "The La
| dies Home Journal" under the cap
! ton 1.-THE Nervous Husband"
The tanning of man.
But how? How can woman go
about tanning man.?
DR.. Myerson not only has the for
mula for producing a nervous hus-
few dents to the wife who is anxious
to exhibit a model husband for the
edification of her neghbors.
Ten Commandments
Here are his ten commandments
for the wife as. part of therapeu-
tics of married life:
1. Thou shalt not cut a man
abruptly off from his past; lead him
to break the threads. one by one,
himself.
2. Thou shall not be jealous of a
mans recreations-of his golf, his
fishing and hunting and his men
trends. Remember man a gang an
NAL, even if he loves his wife.
before thy desire and shalt not COM
pete with thy rich friends. Remem-
Der man that is broke" loses his
self-respect and his affection for
others.
4, s. 6, z, 8, 8 and 10. Thou shalt
Added to these Thou shafts" is
some good advice for the husband
himself about the relative importance
of things in this world of domestic
tranquility-of business versus wife =;
of recreation versus health, of the
need of courtesy and tolerance in
matrimonial affairs as elsewhere.
Don't bring your business affairs
home, advises this nerve specialist.
1t isn't the irritability caused by the
wife's complaints about the maid or
expenditures, nor the noisy play of
the kiddies that produces chroni-
cally nervous husband. 1t is the. man
who becomes plunged into self-re-
preach for his derelictions.
yet there is an excuse for the over
concentration of the American huS-
band" comedies the author. There
has been SO rapid a growth in needs
and he has been forced to measure
himself in his ability to supply these
needs American business men
for some reason spread themselves
resources and so keep themselves
constantly in the gridiron Of anx-
iety."
Health Question
Then there is the health question.
Man is a seeker of excitement
stimuli to keep hi mcontent," writes
DR.. Myerson. There is a restless
kind Of ma nwho does not read
books, except the detective story.
who cannot sit through serious
play and who finds lectures and
some and tedious. Curiously this
kind of man may have been a
reader and student in his youth,
content with those pleasures that
the great outdoors and the quiet,
cozy indoors"
But {. these men, instead of
blaming their business for their
nerves. had better blame their
pleasures. declares this neurotic
Here IS DR.. Myerson's formula for
producing a nervous husband, so if
you want a calm, stole husband, you
know what to do:
yoke together in holy matrimony
pretty woman, or one who thinks
she can be pretty if she dresses
right, with man whose leone is
not high or who struggles. to ad-
vance beyond insecurity ana power
ty. Let her have friends who are
Weather than herself and with
as is the case with much Of fem
mine friendship, and let her de-
velop to perfection the way Of US
ing these two sentences:
"'I, or we, must have that and
You t love me-to make such
fuss over a few dollars" -,
OF hi,,o he rather tender 70 his
wife and yet as tender to his bank
account, a worrisome sort of fellow
who fears middle and old age, who
gets into a cold perspiration when
ever he gees how the curve of his
expenses is rising faster than his
incone."