MARRIAGE AND WAGES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 285, 2 December 1925, Page 8

MARRIAGE AND WAGES.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —I wish to give thanks that there are very few woifien with the crude ideas of "A Thinking Woman." What an absurd remark when she says: "A law should be passed straight away whereby a man gets gaol if he does not give half his earnings to his wife, another quarter for each child as it comes, and a fair share for rent, firing, etc." What about the poor man if he happens to have three children? "Thinking j Woman" has evidently not thought far enough to add one-half and threequarters together, and realise that living on such a system the husband would j soon be in gaol even without his wife's help. This woman has evidently forgotten that love and harmony enter into true marriage, and that the latter is a partnership between husband awl wife for their mutual happiness and comfort, and for the welfare of their children, and I may, I think, safely conclude that she is an elderly spinster, or alternatively that her poor old henpecked husband is ruled with a rolling pin.—l am, etc., MARRIED HELP-MATE.