Evening star., 1938-01-07
, MAN who has just been cele-
brating his golden wedding
anniversary, and who used the

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n brating his golden wedding
~ anniversary, and who used the
4 4 occasion to expound his the
ories about how to handle the various
situations that arise in marriage. as
serted that the best way to stop do
mestic quarrel is for the husband to
put on his hat and leave the house.
The proof Of the pudding is in chew
ing the string. as the old proverb says,
and a man who is the battle-scarred
veteran of SO years of connublal war
fare should be an authority on the
subject. Nevertheless, one doubts the
efficacy of his theory. No doubt his
plan is good as far as it goes, for it is
obviously impossible for q woman TO
keep on talking back to a husband
who isn't there, but it is the philoso-
ply of defeatism and one suspects 1t
would only appeal to the henpecked
husbands who are afraid Of their
wives tongues, anyway.
OF course, It is true that he who
fights and runs away will live to fight
another day." but why postpone to
the future the joy of having it out
right now and there over why the hus-
band always has to hire a platinum
blond stenographer. or the price OF
the wife's new hat, when both have put
on their fighting clothes and are all
f..
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NOR is there any need for husband
and wife to break of a quarrel
right in the middle by one quitting cold
for fear they will exhaust the subject
under dispute. There are 10.00O,O0O
things left for them to disagree about.
And II by chance these should give out,
they can always dig up an old bone
of contention. There are husbands
and wives who fight from the altar
to the grave over religion. politics,
smoking in the house. or whether the
breakfast egg should be fried on one
side or both.
Moreover. any advice about how to
stop q quarrel between husbands and
wives is superfluous because they don't
want it stopped. They quarrel be-
cause they get a kick out of it; be-
cause it puts pep into the somewhat
flavorless dish of matrimony; be-
cause it stirs their blood and makes
them feel alive and tingling and good.
If you don't believe this, note the
fact that after husbands and wives
have had q perfect peach of fight
in which they have reviled and in
suited each other and said every mean
and cruel thing to each other that
they could think Of, they generally
end it up with kisses instead Of Reno,
and no harm done to the domestic
structure. Not . brick loosened.
II further proof were needed that
spatting with each other Is the favorite
indoor amusement of husbands and
wives, you would find 1t in the in
contestable fact that there probably
never was family row that could
not have been avoided by the use Of
the slightest degree of tact or COM
promise or self-control. Every husband
and wife knows what is the fighting
word to each other, but that doesn't
keep them from using it. 1t just
gives them a tip on how to start some
thing.
X X X
lTHEY know what topics are as good
= for q set-to as nickel is for q
ginger cake, but does that make them
walk high, wide and handsome around
these forbidden subjects? No, indeed.
It makes them drag them In by the
head or the heels and pass . pleasant
evening exchanging ordinations and
| recriminat tions about each Others
families and personal hattts and -
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