THE IDEAL HUSBAND

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 56, 15 September 1928, Page 20

THE IDEAL HUSBAND

ONLY FOUND AMONGST GOLFEES The golfer is the ideal husband (declares H. V. Morton in the London "Daily Express")..',He .is a'.maii of steady habit and .fine, patience,, otherwise he could, not play the game. He is a man of some substance, -otherwise ho could, not afford, to play-it. He has made some position, for. himself, otherwise he could not disappear--.from his work with such frequency.- He is generally a man of a.highly desirable age, a man from whom the fret and fever of youth have departed,-for golf-is the malady of the mature. Observe how rashly the good things of. life are squandered in one-placet As if this catalogue of qualities wero not sufficient he possesses that ideal attribute in a- husband —a genius for disappearance! Some men love their homes with a concentrated and adhesive passion, which induces, in some women, a dosire to scream, to run away, to swear, to drink, to be beaten, and ill-used. Such unfailing loyalty to that which is theirs, such suffocating satisfaction.with life, such a tender concern with all the intimate details of domestic life, and, above all, such unbearable übiquity, cause men of this type to bo appreciated only when they have taken their first and last long journey from home. It is not strange that women do not love the perfect man. Perfection leaves nothing to the imagination. How often, I .wonder, have women prayed in the I secret depths of their hearts that their

husbands might develop «small vices? Now the golfer produces all the phenomena of vice without becoming vicious. He is away from homo as carelessly and as often as tho philanderer. Yet in all the long records of the Divvorco Court has there been one co-re-spondent cited as " a golfer"? There has not! Golfers are the most moral of men. They are de-bunkered of passion. Then again, the temper of a golfer is as uncertain as that of a drinker. His generosity when flushed with victory is as sudden and magnificent as that of a man who is trying to sootiio a conscience. Add to this the astonishing fact that the golfer is impervious to boredom (otherwise he could not play golf), and you have a' man who will not only never revolt against marriage, but' will also brin o to that adventure all tho. qualities that compose happiness.