ENGLISH AND GERMAN HUSBANDS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 244, 8 July 1908, Page 5

ENGLISH AND GERMAN HUSBANDS.

i''} i — j.".English\ttannorß aro in soma ways—for instate, ltfj their silly prudishness little worthy o£ ;ujaitation,_ but m ,thp; reppeot thoy teach >for t&e feminine sox, even ; for one's; dwn i jvifo, rfthey can. serve as modelsfor mariv.i Germans." ' This /is the conclusion reacjild bySthe'leading Gernian newspaper, the "I'ologHe Gazette,'' in commenting upon discussion Jarried -on—partly 1 through tlie dorresfjondwee columns of,"The Daily Mail" —in with Mrs. Sidgwick's book, '{The fflomß Life of a; : German."- ■' ; - ; I Thbj "Gaisfette" 'continues: —"On < the. whole :;)io. : -tpiesti«i : Estill: remains, .which :is\ the. less'erVevilf"the'''German':or ; the English Husband? , J\Ve> must -limit ourselves to in- • dividual syffiptoms. Among the lowest classes iii England? the life of a wife; is sometimes 'nurga&ry.J.;'One reads at least; neither in 'Gernia'ny/for France so- terribly : often ! of, husbaincls whomaltreat their • wives in' _i tho/. most' bestijfl fashion with - pickaxes,- kriiyfes, burning o;f lamps,, or. other instruments ( of torture,. a'iw \yho. cscapo. for the :,mosti .part with mild 'WrriisKmentr-an indication * fiat brut'al -hatwlißfe of ! ono!s; wife, almost i'coa- ' stitutes an . ordinary:'right. > '- v; y" : ';Among the middle.- cl.assfes,; on the ol hf'i, harid, - judging - by external, 'appeararfiL's;; tlie; English: husband is less of' a pasba.'' Hian tho German. :- Many , otherwise woll bvo.d , and. educated Germans,. partly out of jl|i->i-nht-less self-indulgence,' partly: out of lav.; fueling, of superiority,;; demand from coiiii joss 1 little services. whichdjiriri^V.-tlie: • are regarded as . loving sfUi;■t|or.s but.' later as eternal duties-and ofc- - nations.' . • The husband hjmself,. i-'ii; tuc ct.-ior hand, is^ exceedingly: niggardly in cliivi> Kius considerations, and seldom |doi;s iijivthing more than shuffle his feet kymii.ilk-st.liy wV.n -his ,:wife:'drops jsoinething;.'•; . . ' Iht otherwise .. stiff Englishman.m this respect, " mostly;mors gallant'^..lf/; for example, i it' is: necessary at table to ring for .a servant, he jumps up, while his wife remains sitting ;the .personification: of 'housewifely,'.dignity.. : In tlie .'throngs of couples: promenading the Saturdays and, Sundays, the husband is dlwa.ys seen' , pushing ' the 'pram.' That the. position of the Englishwoman as a housewife is generally. ..less Quiribersomo -'than that, or her German sister Js more a question of means than of. character. "• ■■■■. ?. ;: " v "