The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-22
Affection Is
Prime Need
OfHuSbandS
RY MARTHA LEE

Several days ago, last Friday to be
specific. this column was devoted to
a dissertation on married men who
believe they have the divine right
to romance.
It rather took a shot at the mar
ried man who provides a roof, a few
sticks of furniture, a stove and three
meals a day, and let's the attentions
and demonstrations of a sweetheart
go to pot. The heading on the ar
ticle read wives Want More Than
Mere Home"
Now x x x, as he signs himself,
has come forth with an idea. He
claims the headline should be re-
Yised to read Husbands Want More
Than Mere HouSekeepers."
What you say about married
men, especially the married men
who step out on their wives, might
apply to few, but SO per cent OF
the husbands who step out would
not do so if they received a proper
amount of love and affection at
home"
Like Poor Relative
In which statement I heartily con-
cur. Too many wives, after a year
or SO of marriage, treat their hus-
bands like a poor relative, who must
be tolerated around the house, al
though it is rather nuisance. They
give their husbands as little atten-
ton as possible. They consider him
sort of machine for earning
money, which interfereS in the pur-
suit of interesting things whenever
he needs attention.
There are other wives who have
taken the love and attention which
rightly belongs to their husbands
and given it all to their children.
Their husbands never have first
thought. They must eat, sleep and
live by the needs of their children.
Their wives never can go out with
them without spending the whole
evening wondering (alouO whether
Johnny has kicked off all the covers
or whether there is too much air. in
Mary'S room, or whether the house
might not burn down before they
get back. Making it swell outing
for the husband, generally.
Then there are the wives who can
not bear to allow their husbands a
moments peace. They must be after
them every moment. SolicitouSly,
they ask if they do not believe they
are smoking too much for their own
good. They can not understand
why, after all the times they have
mentioned it, they do not stop sit
ting around like idiots and get those
screens put up Gf it is spring. or
put away those screens (if it is falD
Such husbands are bounded from
the moment they enter the home
until they are planted the trad1-
tional eight feet under sod.
They Are Single
But to go on with x x KS cryptic
note: Furthermore, none except
the few mentioned above (meaning
the per cent. SUPPOSED are mean
Or dumb enough to tell the other
girl that they are single"
If that is true, that only 1 per
cent of the married men who step
out, try to pass for free, white and
as young as they can, then that
per cent must be restricted to In
dianapolis and surrounding territory
because surely from the letters
get, there are plenty of married men
who step out on the side, not as
married men out for good time
but single men, maybe looking for a
wife-who knows.
OF course the men want more
than housekeepers. Why take on
the expense of supporting and pro-
viding for a woman who is going to
be no more than houSekeeper?
l always have contended that
when a married man goes a'stepping
his wife would do well to review her
past actions toward him. She would
do we'll to check up on the affection
she shows him and the attention to
his comforts. Because, things being
as they are, if a man can't get a
little love and attention from his
wife, he is very apt to go where he
can obtain it.
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