THE IDEAL HUSBAND.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 150, 7 April 1930, Page 8

THE IDEAL HUSBAND.

ONLY FOUND AMONG GOLFERS.

The golfer is the ideal husband (declares H. V. Morton in the London •‘Daily Express.”) He is a man of. steady habit and fine patience, otherwise lie could not play tjie game. He is a man *of some substance, otherwise he could not' disappear from his work with such frequency. He is generally a man of a highly desirable age, a man from whom the fret and fever of youth have departed, for golf is the malady of the mature.

Observe how rashly the good things of life are squandered in one place! As if this catalogue of qualities were not sufficient he possesses that ideal attribute in a husband—a genius for disappearance!

Some men love their homes with a concentrated and adhesive passion, which induces, in some women, a desire to scream, to run away, to swear, to drink, to he beaten, and ill-used. Such unfailing loyalty to that which is theirs, such suffocating satisfaction with life,- such a tender concern with all the intimate details of domestic life, and, above all, such unbearable übiquity, c&iise men of this type to be appreciated only when they have .taken their first and last long journey from home.

It is not strange that women do not love-tlie perfect man. Perfection leaves nothing to the imagination. How often, I wonder, have women prayed in the secret depths of their hearts that their husbands might develop small vices?

Now the golfer produces all the phenomena of .vice without becoming vicious. He is away from home as carelessly and as often as the philanderer. Yet in air the long records of the Divorce Court lias thergn been one co-respondent cited as “a golfer?” There has not! Golfers are the most moral of men. They are de-bunkered of passion. Then again, the temper of a goffer is as uncertain as that of a drinker. His generosity when flushed with victory is as suddeii and magnificent as that of a man who is trying to soothe a conscience.

Add to this the astonishing fact that the golfer is impervious to boredom (otherwise he could not nlnv golf), and von have a man who will not only never revolt against marriage but will also bring to that adventure all the qualities that compose happiness.