The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-22
Wise Wife
VIII Sburn
lea 10 u.s.
BY MARTHA LEE

Wise is the wife who realizes
/ that only too often a husband
praises things about other. women
he would not tolerate in his own
wife.
Smooth is her life. and free from
anguish and jealousy when she
strikes upon the truth of that state
ment, which is the beginning Of wis.,
dom for her.
A man may praise the appearance
of some woman whose face is plaS-
tered with liquid powder, whose eye
brows are arched to thin sneering
line, whose lips are the color nc
ruby ever attained, but just let his
own wife fix her face up that way
and he would turn her over his knee
and spank her after he had given
her face a good Scrubbing.
He may admire slim sylph-like
figure on some other mans wife or
sweetheart, but let his own wife
mince at her food and grow irritable
from under nourishment and she is
no end fool and nit-wit in his
eyes.
May Become Enraged
A husband may crate at length
about the style and chic of some
women who has herself dressed up
like plush horse, but just let his
own wife spend infinite time ovel
her toilette (and infinite sums buy
ing Paris gowns to look likewise)
and his orations take on the tone
of an enraged bull.
For men, when they become hus-
bands, like most to have theil
wives ''little women who are ever
tempered, amiable, economical anc
sensible above all other things. AnC
many a man who casts his eye at q
snappy dame with drug store
complexion, peroxide hair and Pa
tou gowns would divorce his own
wife for using ipstick or brighten
ing up her hair a bit.
Dear Miss Lee-I have been married five
years and am very much in love with
my husband. I am terribly Jealous OF
him. although have never had any spe-
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faithful. as far as I know.
But If we &c out some place where there
is an especially attractive looking girl,
I get little attention from him until he
tells me it's time to go home. And the
funny part of it is he always admires a
type exactly opposite to mine. I am fair
ly good looking. but rather a quiet old
fashioned type. And the girls he ALWAYS
- eIf, ,Iyry
brunets. ultra modern in dress and make
UP. And he will not allow me to use lip
stick!
I can not figure out whether he wants
me to be unattractive so that other men
will not notice me because there are
few men who are ever attracted to my
| type) or whether he admires this other
| type of girl and has found 1t out too late
to do anything else about 1T or what.
Anyway it makes me miserable. MAE.
Only Sets and AdmireS
You are letting your jealousy run
away with you. Your husband
probably wouldn't have married a
girl of this type anyway. Since you
admit The most he does is sit and
admire, surely that can not go far
toward breaking up your home and
destroying your happiness.
You may be the type that paint
makes look hard instead of chic.
You may have an individuality of
appearance that simply does not go
with modern clothes and modern
manners.
Anyway, you are making yourself
unhappy for no good reason at all.
Forget it. If he loves you the way
you are (and he wouldn't have mar
ried you ii he had not why go
around trying to look and act like
every girl he happens to look at
twice?