Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-20

story Of beautiful but misguided hero
inc who cannot appreciate her fine.
good husband. and neglects her home
and her dear little baby SO shamefully
Most husbands are in very little
danger of too much mothering. The
danger nowadays lies in q completely
opposite direction. Studying unhappy
wives and divorced women today, and
the whole Reno problem generally, one
is forcibly struck with the character
istic ''uncompanionabl OF many
Of today's wives. Uncompanionabiene
is a tremendous word, but 1t seems the
right word here.
They seem always looking for new
markets, these wives. They have an
unsatisfied appearance; their eyes range
over every male in the neighborhood,
vaguely specializing, Gould get you?
If could, would want your"
They regard their husbands merely
as a means to an end-what end Is not
quite clear. But the husband is rarely
treated as a loved life companion; he
gets small return for supplying them
with shelter, food, position, clothes, lip
red and cigarettes. The young wife
may be kind, in an absent-minded sort
Of way, but her hesrt is not in this
marriage; her thoughts are always far
afleld. She knows that sooner or later
she will make change; this first man
is merely the bridge to better prospects.
Consequently the maternal complex
Is conspicuously lacking in her; she
does not want children, and an evening
at home alone with Jim, her hair beau
tifully curled her pretty frock and Slip
pers perfection, her lips red and her
nails scarlet, seems to her mere waste
Of time. Nobody is going to see her'
admire her, listen to her-except jim,
who doesn't count.
"Ronnys idea of q good time" a
young wife said to me not long ago,
sis his old clothes, fire and the radio.
And II will make him cup OF not
chocolate at about half-past ten then
he's simply ga-ga with joy. DeliriouSly
exciting for me, five nights week"
Ronny was carrying small business
through the recent crisis; he dreaded
those Office hours daily as child might
dread a school room. His wife, with
nothing on her mind was bored by the
idea of rest and comfort. To MIN she
was neither wife nor mother; she was
a restless, dissatisfied bird of passage,
and time spent alone with him was
to her wasted time.
No woman has to settle into house,
hold drudge, whining about the price
Of lard, the childrens groups and
rashes and the garbage mans tmpu-
dence. No woman has to get shapeless,
indolent, q mere cooker Of food and
duster Of chairs.
But to preserve, or to achieve, home
comfort and companionship Is the
great aim and end in marriage, and a
marriage that is comfortable and COM
panionable never fails. When q man
feels that there Is one person IN the
world, and one only, who Is always
kind and comforting, always glad to
see him and eager to make him happy.
he Is q fortunately married man, and
even though his blessings may come
under the head of .mothefing' = no new
f1attering and flirtatio1s relationship
can draw him away from his wife.
AS for the French idea. quoted by my
friend-well, always see red when I
consider the domestic morality. or
rather immortality, of some members of
the Latin races. their insulting attitude
toward women, their frank acknowl-
edgment that the claims of a pure
home, pure woman and pure little
children are all secondary to the de-