CLEVER WIVES
ARE THEY APPRECIATED?
HUSBANDS' OPINIONS
Do men distrust clever wives? Do they long for a return of the submissive spouse1 of the Victorian era, the woman' who had no interest outside her husband, home, and children? She was a paragon; all that a woman should be. The wife of today supervises her house and children, and often runs a job of her own as well. Does her husband distrust her because she has outside interests, because he sees so much less of her? Is he jealous of her varied capabilities? . Here are some opinions of husbands of clever women, as expressed in a London daily:— Harold Knight, A.R.A. (husband of Dame Laura Knight, A.R.A.): An intellectual wife gives to her husband a companionship, an understanding of the mind lacking in the more ordinary woman. When husband and wife both ■work, and their work lies in the same direction, it forms a common interest, a bond not easily broken. It is not necessary for a wife to run the house herself. Provided she sees that it is
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 89, 15 April 1935, Page 15
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178CLEVER WIVES Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 89, 15 April 1935, Page 15
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