The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-06-23

complaints, such as, Couldn't you
see I was bored to death? Why
didn't you rescue me?" or II
wanted TO go home hours ago. but
you were so peoccupied you never
thought about me at all"
Lots more Of the same. Any
married couple can add TO the list
Of such crimes, both committed
and not committed. If couples
could be one at every other time
and definitely two at social gath
erings, there would be fewer quar-
relS and complaints on the return
home.
Wet Blankets
There are husbands who damp
en- the spirits Of their wives. Per-
hapS that's just as well. There are
wives who who are ShoW-offs in
company. who pretend to be cut
ups when, as a matter of fact,
they are not. We all know the sly
wives in whose mouths butter
wouldn't melt, but who can't be
trusted around the corner. Their
sins may not be OF the deadly var
iety, but they are silly little sins
that make fools of husbands. We
know also the husbands who date
other women for drinks or a lunch
right under the wives noses.
When one or the other sets out
to regulate the number of drinks
taken and says, Now darling.
don't you think you had enough?'
or attempts to exercise some form
OF censorship, naturally the CEN
SOred person gets sore and shows
1t, thus injecting a note Of dOmeS-
tic dlScOrd in an otherwise har-
mOniouS gathering. It's definitely
bad manners TO discipline ones
mate before strangers, or friends.
No wife with an ounce Of sense
tries It, for she knows that men
are ornery bruteS who react badly
to the chcCkrein. Women resent
being treated like children in pub
lie, much though they may enjoy
being babied at home.
When either husband or wife
has learned from experience what
an unpleasant and unexpected
situation. may come up at social
gatherings, they are likely to pre-
fer TO take their fun singly. or to
remain at home where any differ
ences of opinion may be kept in
the family.
1t IS, however, too bad when
husband or wife cannot take a
chance on or really count on, the
good behavior Of ones mate. When
a man knows that a women isn't
going to make a scene or stage
any sort Of an exhibition that re-
fleets on him, he sallieS forth with
his wife sure Of an evening Of fun.
No Fun for Him
But II she's an uncertain guam
tity, who may go blotto on almost
no provoCation, or get jealous or
superior, he is unnerved from the
start and quite likely to give the
lady good cause for putting on
some sort of act, or adding an un-
pleasant epilogue delivered. with
m ore eloquenCe than common
sense, on the way home.
Marriage doesn't give either Of
the contracting parties the right
TO dictate or embarraSs the other.
When man marrleS a women,
one preSumeS that he has conf
dence in her. When a girl marries
a man, she certainly has no rea-
son to treat him either like a
criminal who must be policed or a
naughty child whose actions must
be supervised and corrected.
Until couples get so they can
act like responsible individuals in
public. they had better stay at
home or get what amusement they
can on their own.
When a wife admits that she
has better time without her hus-
band, or a husband admits he
enjoys himself more without his
wife, there's something wrong
with their marriage. Sharing each
others troubles is commendable
but sharing each others JOY is just
as important-and safer.