Happiness is a dishwasher?

Press, 21 July 1986, Page 8

Happiness is a dishwasher?

By

ROBIN CHARTERIS

in London

A London doctor has some advice for men who want a happy marriage: buy your wife a dishwasher.

“These machines are given too low a priority when a couple set up home,” says Dr Richard Rycroft, a skin specialist. “They should be considered well before a video

for a happy, harmonious life.

“After all, a woman is much more alluring if she doesn’t have rough, un- . sightly hands and a man is more likely to do his share of the chores if he has a machine to help him,” he said.

Dr Rycroft, a consultant dermatologist at St John’s Hospital for diseases of

the skin and a leading British expert on occupa-

tional skin hazards, says he is concerned about a medical problem, housewives’ dermatitis. “Every dermatologist

sees housewives with terrible hands. They are painful and embarrassing and for some the condition can develop into chronic skin eczema,” he said.

Dr Rycroft, whose own wife has a dishwasher,

said many doctors told housewives they would have to learn to live with rough hands. “But I think they ought to tell them to consider investing in a dishwasher," he said.

“Rough hands are one of the barriers to a harmonious life at home.”