REFORMED BY WIFE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 32, 7 February 1925, Page 19

REFORMED BY WIFE.

STORY OK A "HARD OASK." A London coroner lately said bow foolisli it was for a woman to marry a "hard was probably right. There are exceptions in London papers show. "I bflve done it," is the essence of a letter received from a woman reader. "I feel I must contradict the coroner's remark," she writes, "when he says a woman cannot reform a bus'Jand. "I, for one, bare done so. Twenty-twO drunkards in the village. "But from the dny we were married up till to-day ho has reformed and been one of the bent meu foini. I have never hail cause to regret my marriage. I am the mother of 10 children, an>l am comfortable and happy. "My husband saved enough to buy the house we are living In, which is a sixroom cottage. He has never been out in the evening except at work, and has never drank, and has never quarrelled. "But before our marriage he smashed every window in the village inn; fought with a man for two hours, till we thought one or the other must Unve been killed; smashed a bnrrei-orgnn to pieces; served a month's imprisonment. "When he left the Army lie came out with a splendid character. -This is what he says about me:-'My wife made mc a good man. I only do my •duty, and try >o make the home hright and happy.' '"Half the unhappy homes nrp caused because husband and wife pull one against the other, whl-h Is a silly thin; to do. . ."