Newspaper Produces Charter For Wives

Press, Volume C, Issue 29516, 18 May 1961, Page 21

Newspaper Produces Charter For Wives

(Special Correspondent N.Z.P.A.)

LONDON, May 17. A charter for wives has been produced by the “Daily Sketch," which offered a 501 b flitch of bacon to wives who. with the agreement of their husbands, provided the clauses. There are 10 of them so far

and they are—A wife has the right: To expect her husband to be as loving, gentle and kind as he was during their days of courtship; To receive money for her own personal use and not have ’to take it from her housekeeping money; To know how much her husband earns every week; To a fair share of garden for her flowers even if her husband does think vegetable more essential; To expect her husband to go shopping at week-ends to see where the money goes; To talk things over with her husband before he makes any big decisions concerning both parties; To expect her husband to take the children out once a week on Saturday or Sunday; To an increase of her housekeeping money when her husband gets a rise in his wages; To tenderness and understanding, a shoulder to lean on; To expect her husband to stay in to baby-sit once a week while she goes out for the evening. The “Daily Sketch’’ is asking for five more clauses, with five more flitches as prizes. USE THO WANT ADVTS tn “THE PRESSAN Advertisement in The Press" CLASSIFIED COLUMNS will soon convert those no longer used articles Into ready cash