Men Forget That Wives Need Romance

Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 159, 8 July 1938, Page 2

Men Forget That Wives Need Romance

LONDON. Men! It’s your fault there are so many unhappy marriages. You’ve lost the art of keeping in love. Once you’re married you forget your wife needs just as much romance as when you first met her. Tho little presents you brought her when you were engaged—the surprises —the flowers —the cigarettes. You don’t do it now, because you say “She has the money to buy what she wants.” Cosmo Hamilton, famous novelist, has just finished "Every Man to His Wife.” It exposes this crime which modern husbands commit —this loss of interest in their wives. “Women want petting,’* said greyhaired handsome Cosmo Hamilton to a •eporter. “They want to be given in to all the way round—treated as women "But the average man knows as little about women as he does about a yacht. He has no idea how to treas a woman. It’s the main reason for marriage failures.** So the reporter asked Ben Foord, the boxer—three months wed to Phyllis Sowter, school-mistress—what he thinks about it all. Petting—and Bullying "I don’t agree with petting—not all the time. Now and then it’s good—but a fair amount of bullying is excellent for a wife. And I speak from personal experience!” Ben laughed as he said that. '‘Modern men haven’t lost the art of petting completely. But they ought to cultivate it. more. Little thihgs tount so much in married life. " Petting and bullying in turn. That *s the secret. It’s no good being a model husband all the time—if you were, your wife would lose interest in you.’*