AUSTRALIAN GIRL’S RULES FOR HAPPY MARRIAGE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 19 December 1936, Page 7

AUSTRALIAN GIRL’S RULES FOR HAPPY MARRIAGE

SHEILA HUNTER WEDS 8.8. C. “UNCLE” “LEAVE HIM ALONE” IS HER MOTTO (By Air Moil—From A Special Correspondent) LONDON, 27th November. Here ore an Australian girl’s rules for wedded bliss—as given to Londoners by Miss Sheila Huhter, actress and beauty prize-winner, after her marriage this week to Mr Stanton Jeffries (.lately "Uncle Jeff” to 8.8. C. child listeners). “First of all—l am going to leave him alone. To keep a man you must release a man. No chain or cross-ques-tioning in my marriage. “Give-and-take may work successfully with some couples. But in marriage it’s going to be ‘all give.’ “To begin well I have given up my career. That is not such a great sac- j rifice, because I never was much good on the stage anyway. “Then I’m going to keep my husband happy by cooking my way permanently into his heart. I am a good cook—most Australian girls are, ioi we are taught domestic science as a matter of course in Australian schools. “We have a little place in St. John s Wood like a doll’s house. I have spent five months decorating it, and 1 am going to spend the length of its lease being happy in it. We’ve got it for 99 years. , , “Now wc arc off on our week-end car honeymoon. On Monday he begins work, and I take up my 99 years lease of happiness.”