Evening star., 1937-04-06

when q woman Is married to
slovenly man she should pinch-hit
for q valet and send him forth each
morning brushed and pressed, spic-
and-span and looking like Clark Gable
sounded good to me SO tried it. In
the matrimonial lottery had the luck
to draw a husband who always ap-
peared to have just been flshed out
of the dirty-clothes hamper, 10
would take away the soiled shirt and
replace it with clean one with
the buttons all in place. I'd sit at
home darning socks and putting false
cuffs on papas pants because he was
too stingy to buy new ones. Id wash
papas face and ears and press his
| suit and make him look like cloth
ing ad. But one day when was
mending papa's coat what did /
find but a letter from papa's girl
friend, and that set me wondering II
maybe 1 hadn't furnished papa up
so much and made him look good to
other women I might have kept him
for myself. So what? MRS. V. B. S.
Answer-Don't ask me. Nobody
knows the answer, though millions
of women spend their lives trying to
figure it out. How to be a good wife
and not ruin hubby is the inSoluble
cross word puzzle of the ages. Your
experience is an example in point.
You took a slouchy. unshorn and un-
shaven man whose trousers bagged at
the knees and whose linen was not
beyond reproach and at whom, IN
his natural state, every woman would
have turned up her nose.
You ran him through the laundry
and the barber shop. You denied
yourself q water wave to buy him a
fancy necktie You sat up nights get
ting the spots of his Waistcoat and
putting q razor edge on his trousers
and generally metamorphosed hlm
into the glass Of fashion and the mold
of form. What's the result?
You've turned the scarecroW into
something that catches the feminine
eve. Instead of being an humble
and domestic husband he has become
popular among the women, He mas
gone with the wind, or words to that
effect.
Nor are YOU alone in finding that
YOUR efforts to help your husband
have proved boomerang that was
your undoing. Many woman makes
of her back ladder on which heI
husband climbs to success, only tc
have him kick it down when he has
reached the top. Well do l recall
the case of a devoted wife who took
in fine laundering to help her clever
and ambitious husband finish his COL
lege course and who supported MN
by the work OF her hands until he
got a start in his profession. Her re-
ward was to have him tell her that
he had entirely outgrovn her and
that she was no longer any compan-
ion for cultured man and one who
meant to 90 to high places IN the
world.
The world is filled with the old
wives who have slaved their fingers
to the bone cooking, washing, sew
ing, baby tending. helping their hus-
bands to make their fortunes, who
fnd themselves discarded for young
wives when the money is made. Sc
commonly does this happen that many
wives don't even try to help their hus-
bands get rich They regard it as toe
dangerous. They say that the only
sure way to keep husband is to keer
him poor and not worth the gold
diggers' attentions. All of which goes
to show that being wife Is a diff
cult and parlous job. The wonder Il
that so many girls have the nerve tt
tackle it.
DEAR DOROTHY D1X-What dt
~ you think Of married man Wht
specializes in affairs with young
girls? M. l. M.
Answer-I think he is the Lowest
of the human species because he L
running the lives Of two people
Often more. because generally he ha:
children whose peace, security anc
happiness are wrecked by the miser!
he brings into their home.
The tortures Of the inquisition wert
not crueler than the pangs OF Jealousy
a man inflicts on his wife when NJ
leaves her sitting alone for drearJ
evenings at home while he play!
around with young girls. She sound.
the depths of misery as size CON
trasts her fading looks with the
girls fresh beauty, her cddness o.
the neglected with the others gayet!
and high spirits, and knows that sh
has no charms by which to corJur'
him back again and that she ha'
lost him forever. Nor is her sorrow
mitigated by knowing that he is no
worth loving. that he is faithless
lacking in honor and respect for hi
obligations.
The wrong the philanderer doe
his wife Is great, but it Is not create
L.