Evening star., 1925-04-05
Wives Club Loses Member
of
andSo eGoodO Ideas Are
BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM.

Queen Victoria, the only
~ woman President of England,
Il often said, "All wives is per-
~ i feet the first year. after
which many turn out to be
dumb doras"
And amt it remarkable how she
thought OF that all them many years
ago, when she couldn't possibly of
seen any of our real up-to-date
womans magazines and the good ad-
vice they give we ladies on this
very subject?
So far as L know Queen Vic didn't
offer no remedy for being a dumb
dora, or as a person might more con-
servatively put it, a thorough grape
fruit. AS I said to George-that's
my husband-not long ago, maybe in
them old days folks didn't know any
more about curing unsuccessful
wires then they did about removing
appendices or installing telephones.
Anyways, her quotation come to
my mind last week when I asked
Geo. for the price of q Spring coat,
and he as usual says my heaven
woman what's wrong with the one
you bought last year it looks per-
fectly good to me.
And L says well it don't to any
body else, and he says amt there any
end to expenses In this house, you
IT now, we hadn't ought to spend a
unnecessary cent. And then he beat
u off to catch Il earlier train in order
10 stop in and buy few new golf
clubs that he really needed SOS he
could play the first round of the sea-
son on Sunday with that Joe Bush OF
the Hawthorne Club.
Hot BoZo, ] thought, men don't
know no more about womens clothes
then snake does about knitting!
And just as I cracked that one to
myself, the telephone rung. and who
would it be but Mrs. Joe Bush, and
she says say dear do come over this
afternoon l am getting up a new
club and want you should join, it's
called The Good Wives Club" and
got the idea out of last months
Home Stabilizer Magazine.
Well, of course, l was perfectly
willing to admit I was a good wife,
at least L thought so at that time,
but anyways Mabel Bush always
serves nice refreshments and I didn't
want to miss anything, so l says I'll
be there. And l went, even although
i had to wear that last years coat
which I bought it when everything
was trimmed with cats whiskers,
and now all the new coats was COM
ing out with Alligators teeth bro
cade.
Well, when I got over to Mabel's
house, there was practically all the
ladies in town including Mrs. Goof-
nah and even that bottle blond, Miss
Demeanor, the one that's engaged to
marry Doctor Salary, and I suppose
she thought they invited her SOS she
could get little advance dope. Hot
Bozo! as If any bunch of married
women would really be willing to
warn off a prospective victim,
Well anyways. Mrs. Goofnah was
about to be made Madame President
of this new organization. 1 could tell
It from where the pitcher of ice water
was standing, and in a few minutes
Mabel Bush commenced explaining the
purpose of the club.
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IT seems the Home StabiIizer Maga-
= zine had made a careful survey of
what was wrong with most marriages
and was now in a position to tell suf-
1erlng Womanhood just what to do to
make the home grounds better and
brighter and to give wives a batting
average that Babe Ruth could pin a
medal on hiSself for.
1t was Mabel's idea that we should
all get together on the day the mag
aZine came out, read the advice aloud,
and then go home and put It into
practice. After which we could report
results at the next meeting. Then she
passed around the current issue. and
tho article was by man, and as his
picture was real handsome, we all
voted aye, contrary minded. silence
Then Mrs. Goofnah read the article.
Hot BoZo! That editor certainly did
have a bunch of good, original ideas.
To commence with. he pointed out
where simply because a woman has
married that is no reason why she