THE REASON WHY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIII, Issue 70, 6 March 1923, Page 6

THE REASON WHY.

(To the Editor). . Sir, —I do not say that this is always so. doubtless there are cases where husbands have left the most comfortable homes and the most patient and helpful of wives, but it is not likely that there would be such frequent instances of desertion if homes were always all they should be. Men and women look upon getting married as something that is going to save them from the necessity of working. They are loud enough in claiming their rights; they seldom think of their duties. Some women make a badlytended home worse still by indulging in a habit of nagging. The man who can stand a nagging wife is either a saint or a fool. Better than all laws would it be if women devoted themselves to learning the art of making a home comfortable, if they learnt how to lay out their husband’s money to the best advantage, if they realised that the slender thread of love is stronger to bind than the iron fetters of the law. A man soon know a when he is well off. and rare indeed are the instances where men have left comfort and love to wander homeless in strange lands. Women have a deep-rooted idea that a man can be compelled to be sober and industrious and faithful by legislation. Some of them imagine that a man can bo scolded into an affectionate mood. Strange delusion, when they can effect more by womanly love and devotion than all our legislators have been able to accomplish from the days of Moses to our own. I am, etc., HOAfER,