The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-06-24
Vices Can t
Afford to
Rest Easy
BY MARTHA LEE

&fAfAAN AAfA LII
The thing that gets most Of us
down quicker than any other one
thing is the necessity these days for
being constantly "on your toes"
That's a tough assignment, but
IT'S a result of our times. There is
so much competition everywhere,
in every line Of endeavor, that it
has become a part of the daily rou-
tine.
There was time when a bust
ness man could get on his toes just
at the right time, for little while,
and the profit would allow him to
sit back on his heels, taking things
easy the rest of his life.
Life was a very simple affair. All
one had to do was put ones wares
on the counter, watch the customers
come In, sell them and collect the
money. Sometimes customers didn't
come, but then there was always
enough to eat and wear.
Now, there are SO many stores,
so many counters, so many wares
that a man in order to keep his
head above the economic waters
must be on his toes every minute.
And the man who relaxes his watch
least, whose vigilance is most con-
slant, whose attention to details is
most minute, usually is the man
who makes a go of his BUSINESS.
Nothing on Women
And he has nothing on the women
and their vocation of matrimony.
Time was q hear when a woman
extended herself to the utmost until
she finally had gotten some man in
the proposing position. After she
had said Eyes" and the sound of
the wedding bells had died away she
dared relax. She could sit back on
her heels, secure in the thought that
her husband was bound to her until
death interviewed And if his gaze
did stray, it was just another case
of sitting back on the heels and
waiting until he got over the fatua-
ton.
But modern wives have to be just
as keen and on their toes as their
business men husbands. They have
competition to meet too. And a man
no longer will stand for wife who
relaxes the minute she has his
signature on the marriage certificate.
Many a wife finds herself a grass
widow at an early age, because she
thought the battle was over the
minute the 81 dos" were pro-
nounced. Many wife whose neat
ness, attractive appearance and
amiable disposition won her hus-
band, loses him simply because she
no longer thinks those things are
necessary.
There are too many rivals. too
much competition for any wife to
relax after marriage. Here is the
mans viewpoint of such situation.
Dear Miss Lea word to young wives
from a young ex-husband. Maybe I'm
Just silly. and I may be no criterion at
ALL But I'd like to have my say.
The girl married was as sweet of dis
position and pretty of face and figure as
a man would want. I was no special
catch. In fact I thought at the time
was certainly getting the best of the bar
gain. Maybe did. But here's what hap
pened. AS soon as the honeymoon was
over. noticed a decided change in her.
She became dictatorial toward me- I'm
less We we're going out some place, she
never bothered to dress up. The only time
she really was amiable. like I had known
her in our courtship days. was when others
came in. And so I found I had been
fooled. That the things I loved my wife
for. the things that had convinced me
should give up bachelorhood simply were
company manners"
Don't get your husband that way. Be-
cause If YOU do you never will hold him.
And If you do get him by fooling him.
have the good grace to keep up the act
ing. From past experience. would say
ell women are good enough actresses in
stinctively to keep it, up indefinitely.
EX-HUSBAND.