RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33917, 9 August 1975, Page 23

RANDOM REMINDER

NO MAT UNTURNED

A sign of true love is when a wife will worry about her husband’s welfare while she is immersed in plans for a solo trip round the world. The wife in mind has a husband who is a very senior member of a very well-known organisation known as a service club. The husband is also considerably indispensable to his business; and when his wife finally insisted that she should wait no longer before seeing relatives in a great range of foreign countries he simply pressed large numbers of banknotes in hei hand and wished her wel for her 10-week circuit. When she had flowr off he made a successiot

s [of startling discoveries y [about his wife’s arrange- . ments for his comfort — " startling, that is, for a man who likes to live in a [his own, independent I. [way. Twenty members of his club had been put on a >’ monthly roster by his y wife to wake him by n iphone for work each >. morning. He cancelled i-[this team effort at once oand bought an electric n alarm-clock. d A large grocery departo.ment of a city store t-[which makes suburban >f i deliveries had been warn- -- [ed to phone him weekly i- for his order. He canir! celled that. IT A commercial cleaner had been instructed to go n through the house weekin ly. He cancelled that.

s I ms luuiiury was to -[be picked up regularly. -[He seemed to have no 11 laundry; so there was no i difficulty about cancelling tithat, too. It was just as well that si this man’s wife had made aino commercial arranges [ment for the house plants y to be watered. They were i sturdy plants but there 1 was no chance that they e would have survived a c 10-week dehydration. As it was, the wife was - able to walk into her e house again with her infl door plants smiling and i- nodding, leaves oiled and y everything. i- This watering was one job she had arranged ■r i with her neighbour. Her ©[husband hadn’t the nerve i-j to interfere with such person-to-person business.