Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1925-11-12
IN CONFIDENCE
TIME COMES FOR WIFE
TO PLAY WITH HUBBY

Dear Miss Flo:-
have been married twenty years.
My husband was a poor man when l
married him. BY working hard, strug
Cling and saving, we finally got a
start. After that, it was easy. My
husband made money quickly. He
made many business friends. He met
their wives and families. He was in.
vited out often to dinners, theatres,
etc. did not care for that sort OF
thing. thought 1t was wastefui to
squander the money we had worked
so hard for on extravagant pleasures.
I wanted him to save money. In the
end / have gained nothing. am very
unhappy. During the years when we
were struggling in order that we
might have enough to eat, we were
happy. My husband adored me. Now
he Is totally Indifferent. He Is out
every evening. He never asks me to
go with him. believe he is in love
with another woman. Do you think
I should give him his freedom?
Francine.
Give him his freedom, Francine?
OF course No. In the first place, you
are not sure that there is another
woman-or that he wants his free
dom, 50 why should you give up ev-
erything that you have worked and
shaved for all these years? Another
thing to consider, unless you are in
dependent financially, is that you
might find 1t difficult to support
yourself. If you doubt this, all you
have to do is look around you, and
see the countless number of women,
past their youth, trying to support
themselves in a world that has no use
for their services. At your time OF
life physical comforts and an as
sured income are more important
than romantic love.
NV advice to you, Francine, is to
stop worrying about losing your hus-
bands love and try to hold it. From
what you have written, I believe
that it has been long time since you
were really companion to your hus-
band. believe that you have saved
80 long that it became habit with
you, and you still consider it a crime
to spend dollar for pleasure.
Your story is an old one. Recent
Tyne papers were full of story of
woman, who, outraged and infuri.
atkd because her husband seemed to
si56e giving more attention to other wo-
men than he was giving her, attemp-
ted to get a divorce. The husband
told his story. It was something like
this. He made money. He wanted
1'to dress his wife up like million
dollars" to use his expression, but
she refused to be dressed up. He IN
vited her out to dinners. theatres,
and other places, but she refused to
go.
Well, to make long story short
he stopped asking her to go out, aad
went out anlone--for while.
There are many foolish wives
making the same mistake-not realiz
ing that the easiest way to get far
Their away from husband is to let
other people have the good times
with him while she remains his saw
ing bank. It is a wise wife who is her
husbands best 'good fellow"
If / were you, the first thing /
should do is purchase some new
clothes, and make myself as attrac-
tive as I possibly could. You were
attractive to him at one time. No
reason IN the world why you cannot
make yourself just as attractive
again. Surprise him some day by
casually suggesting that it has been
q long time since you have seen a
show together.
It may be that your husband is
giving his time to another woman,
-again, your suspicious may be en-
tsrely unwarranted. But if there is
another woman, the chances are that
he was driven into an infatuation by
loneliness and longing for COM
panionship. If it is merely infatua-
ton, it wont be hard to win him
away from 1t.
After all, the years you struggled
together mean something to him, and
when he sees that you are really try
ing TO make things more pleasant, he
win soon tire of the other woman,
and return to the love of his youth.
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