Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1919 — ABOUT HUSBANDS AND WIVES [ARTICLE]

ABOUT HUSBANDS AND WIVES

One Who Should Know Has a Few Words to Say on Inter- — esting Subject. In a series of stories written by Jean Pierre Perard, designated the most married man in the world, because he has 23 times led blushing brides to the altar, are many things illuminating to men and women. Two of his stories discuss men and women who make the best husbands and wives. In his own words: Consideration for his wife’s feelings is the good husband’s middle name. He doesn’t bawl her out in public. In fact he doesn’t bawl her out at all, but if something goes wrong or he thinks he isn’t getting a square deal somewhere, he has it out with her and gets it off his chest. He doesn’t go about with a grouch bottled up. He doesn’t keep a strangle hold on the purse strings or dole out the shekels as if he were sitting in a continuous game of penny ante, but neither does he throw the clutch and hit on all twelve cylinders. When you come to face the facts in the case at hand the “good” husband is the one who heeds the advice of the Good Book and doesn’t let his right hand know what the other does —or words to that effect. The women who make the best wives are the ones who see to a man’s comfort without making any fuss about IL They’re the ones who take an interest in their husband’s comings and goings without, keeping tab on him till he feels as if home were a jail and she’s the keeper. They are strdng-mlnded enough to keep husband in the straight and narrow path, but they refrain from pushing him too far or too fast. To sum it up the women who make the best wives are the ones who regard marriage as an occupation or a profession.—New York Mail.