Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1905 — Ourselves as Others See Us. [ARTICLE]

Ourselves as Others See Us.

The American man is more consistently considerate of and generous to women than any fellow on earth, and In no country does he get sharper •nubbing for his pains, says an Englishman in the London Chronicle. The handling of husbands by wives in America amounts to an art, a profession, almost a science. Based on the theory that the more one has to do the more one can accomplish, ladies who have hard-working, enterprising spouses simply retire from active life. If lie manages h.iS office and business satisfactorily, wby not take over the house, and servants? What is known as “a good husband” in the States is a first-class, non-tiring money-making machine, who gives everything, asks nothing and brags ceaselessly of his wife’s perfections. Should he presume to criticise a charred chop or a flat souffle or complain at the size of the draper’s bill, he is set down as a brute, and the wife is pitied as a first-class martyr! For such sins as the above two men of my acquaintance were forced to live In hotels a year at a time.. They hud committed the crime of finding fault with the impeccable sex, and were reduced to subjection by having their homes taken from them. For my part I think the Briton's way is best.