The mirror., 1922-03-16
BRINGING UP A HUSBAND
By Mr.. L. J. W.

believed that all they needed to do to get
wife was to take a club and hit the
lady of his choice on the head, and drag
her home. But today, well, the lady has
something to say about that. Because men,
and women, too, have minds of their own.
Having minds, they have wills, having
wills they want their own way.
There is not man living who does not
privately entertain the opinion that he
knows Just little bit better than any body
else how to run things at home. And on
the other hand, if there is a woman who
does not feel herself more capable in al
most every respect than her husband, we'll,
she was born either to soon or to late,
am uncertain which.
But nevertheless, there is always
way to work the partner of your bosom.
But the trouble with most married couples
is that they never take the trouble to ind
out the combination. They are as stupid
as the man who tore his clothes, and
scratched his face trying to crawl through
a brush fence, when not two feet away
was door through which he could have
passed with ease and comfort, if only he
had had wits enough to turn the knob the
right way.
Of course there are few men of such
sullen and morose dispositions or such
tightwads, that nothing but their own sell
fish desires appeal to them. They appear
to get married only to have some helpless
creature in their power on whom they can
practice their cruel humors, and nothing
that any woman can do or say would alter
them. Such men, however, are extremely
rare, and any woman can get along with
the average man, and get her way with
him, if she has sense enough to find out
how to rub his fur the right way, that is,
so he viii purr under her hand. To do
this she must study her man, and find out
whether swearing, or crying, is the most
effective.
There is also the traditional belief in
the feminine sex that the easiest way to
bring up husband is by hydraulic power,
so they try to drown him in tears when
ever they want anything.
Probably this is good, as general mea-
sure. Because there is something in a
woman's tears that melts down the aver
age mans backbone into pulp, and makes
him give into the cry-baby, to stop her
bowling.
But tears do not conquer every man.
There are men who feel like inviting his
little lady to come and sob it out on his
shoulder. And there are other men to
whom a woman's tears are like red rag
to mad bull, and who jump up and
grab their hats, and bang the front door
after them the minute they see woman's
upper lip curl or her nose beginning to
get red. Therefore, it is wise for woman
to make careful note of how her huS-
band reacts to Brine whether it softens
him or pickles him.
If the first time bride weeps, her hus-
band pats her on the shoulder and says,
"There, there of course you can have any
thing your little heart desires" she will 40
well to cultivate her tear ducts. But if
he scowls at her, and tells her not to be a
fool, she is fool if she doesn't can the
sob stuff.
If mar is inclined to be cynical and
high-tempered, then woman's only
. chance ;S to. heat him tO his own game,
she must go to it first, and in way, well,
that has to be catered to, and in temper
that makes him stand up and take notice
Women can do this, because, when il
comes to an argument, no man can out-talk
woman. A woman can always give a
man her point of view, especially on do
mestic affairs, and without turning him
into an advance agent for divorce court