AN AMERICAN VIEW OF UNTIDY HUSBANDS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 87, 6 January 1908, Page 3

AN AMERICAN VIEW OF UNTIDY HUSBANDS.

/There--is,a. great, deal ■ of' fault, found, with. tho; wifo.' who 'fails to tako 1 pains, with iher appb'ara.nbe .' aftpr;' sovpral; ■' yearsv. of ;• mariiPd -lifo r ; '■atidi'>while .it. 'is • true.,,that' 'course,' unless Junavoidablb', ',is .'-?:liighly ('injudicious;.'it is not always the mfo'siinultv;. : ,she \does not' wear' unbecomjng'';;wrapper3 becaiiso 'slio .likes them; she don - broken-down shoes .beca,use. tliey 'are beautiful ; ■ there .is lio delirious hot in" the faot 'thait. her hair' no,'longer looks, welljVand; that'her 1 faco-is wan an'tl, haggardlooking./; " ■' '!' ' .'.The truth of.'tho' matter.'isj.that. in. a ,great nVajority' .of . cases -.sho is acutoly-'-oonscipus of : all .tlieso defects; she' regards her. urilovc-ly iniago iri; tho glass and the reflection niakos her-, niost miserable; but what is.'.a iwoman to do when thero is much ; workj' little': money and tvi-o or three small children to take care of? I v,,-'

.Housework -plays havoc iwith i dainty negligees;'the.,care of a ' baby aiid-.b.pmg, up several times in:, tho night with.,it, .causes a womaii, to'look haggard.arid old .quicker thgn anything else; and one; cannot repair ■; thiso dainages when:: nionoy. is none -too-jpleiity, arid; expense's each year Amount;,to, a".higher and;higher notch.' ' -... ', . ...Many a:,young wife -looks ~back, to the years of ,hor carefree girlhood when slip ,wa.s young arid; fairand attired, a's/to sbrilp'.'faraway.,.dream; . but now earo;'and;:rcsporisibilitj'. arid' unendirik cltb.rt' has-beaten : aowii her. pride; humbled . hef,i'variityi'ahd made her almost' hopeltss of better';times^to come. . -■ ,

• Then,,. too,-, very often, . if-', yd.u will observe, the husband who.has so much .to,say about. .thei-caroles3. appearance of 1 hisj wifo, .that.bo. is. not: in,'a. position to throw-stones. '.Whereas; .in' the.days of their en-, gagemorit ho..was most ,careful:pf. liisMiho'n,. his shoe's, clothes arid :heckwear,; whori-.she liras-to sop'him;,,now ceases - to,worry about thorn at, al).'r,whon, hp.',feets,(to'mo he ttliiiiks. it .no-more tnan, right. tluit. 110 should be, comr f ortablo ;-,-j»n-ythii)fe li.Sr,;! ggod,-;:; enough,,.f dr.. the ivifp, which ,is all -very well; as far,: as-ho goes, but ho .resents thp 'saino attitude , in her...'. 1 ' ,' ... Anything Js'good-enough .for-her, : -but she, .-should- hever 'foi-get'that slip owes it to-him"' to look her best; it 'matters' jVofc tliat .she' is tired and.-worn- and half-dead for sleep and "that her' good.clothes arc. so few "that .alio must savo; thorn for. church; and funerals' and- visitiiig. She-should .never f'ico him without waves in her. hair, powder-'on her nose and a costume absolutely spick ami span: .' ■ . ... s • ■. .

v Which'-is all foolishness,,., as . overy-'one knows; if .it,i3 up to tho wife tb;tako care of her appearance around the. houso .it it; just as much up to tlio husband.. -.What in jauco' for tlio gooso is, saiico for tho gander.