Evening star., 1938-01-10

AAAoV VIZ CAiS AONShAnhAh6s SiAO AItAoG
never let the fire Of romance burn
out on the hearthstone, and she must
keep her husband seeing her as a
Lady Love instead of Just cook
and the children's mother.
Wives are always complaining that
their husbands take them for granted
and that they never pay ther1
compliment or notice what they have
on or give them any outward visible
sign of affection. But these same
women give their husbands precisely
the same sort of a frigid deal and
then wonder why said husbands wan
der off after glamorous ladies who tell
them how handsome, big, strong and
wonderful they are. Heart-hunger is
not an exclusively feminine complaint.
Men suffer from it, too. They also
crave appreciation and flattery and
for their wives to give some indica-
ton that they regard them as men
instead of cash registers.
As long as a wife stays lover and
dresses herself up for her husband
hold him that she did to catch him, he
is virtually siren-proof.
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SECOND, a wife should be her hus-
bands friend. She should be the
one person in the world to whom he
can go, secure of sympathy and un-
derstanding, and whom he never bores
because the slightest thing he does is
more thrilling to her than world
shaking events abroad.
She should be friend to whom he
can bare his soul and tell his secrets,
with the certainty that his condolences
will be kept locked in her heart in
stead Of being passed on to mother
and the girls. She should be a friend
to whom he can boast of his tri-
umphs without having them belittled
and bewail his failures without being
told they are his own fault. She
should be friend to whom he can
tell the truth without being nagged
about it ever afterWard.
A wife should be friend whose So
ciety her husband finds more enter
tanning and interesting than that of
any one else. She should be interested
in the things that he is interested in,
read the same books, like the same
people, enjoy the same movies, be-
cause there can be no real friendship
between people who have not the same
tastes. And she should be a good
listener, willing to lend him her ea-s
when he talks about his business or his
golf score. She should laugh at his
jokes and make as great an effort to
be agreeable to him as she would to
any other man she wanted to charm
and whom she wanted to think that he
had drawn lucky number when he
got her for a dinner partner. When
| a man speaks Of the woman to whom
he is married as Friend Wife and
means it, it is a glt-edged certificate
of domestic felicity.
4IulO, d NOIIl6Li SllOulO OC llcl IluS.
bands business partner No woman
has right to take all and give nothing
| in marriage. and the parasitic wife is
as contemplate as any other CRATER.
| In the domestic partnership the wom-
/ ans end of it is in making her hus-
band a comfortable home and keep
ing him we'll and happy, and it is just
as much up to her to turn out good
! Job as it is for him to do 50.
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OF COURSE. there are few men
who are such born go-getters that
| they will achieve their ambitions no
matter what sort of woman they
marry, but nine times out of ten
whether a man succeeds of fails de-
pends upon the side partner he has.
Most Of the big fortunes were founded
on the nickels and dimes that thrifty
wives saved by peeling the potatoes a
little thinner and walking 10 blocks
to buy cheap cuts of meat that they
turned into wholesome and nourisning
dishes.
The lazy wives, the bad cooks. the
spenders, the winners and complain
ers and naggers are millstones about
the necks of their husbands that sink
! them So it is up to every woman to
be real helpmeet to her man. To do
her share of the work. to keep him fit
by feeding him properly, to brace him