BRIDES WHO WILL NOT HAG.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15169, 7 December 1912, Page 2 (Supplement)

BRIDES WHO WILL NOT HAG.

—•— —^__, NIGHT OFF A WEEK FOR HUSBANDS. " ' ' ■ ■• ' ■'••■• .■ ■• '■;•■' '.";V* There were thirty-four young ' brides '09 the boat, all possessing ideas of how to roi ; ' a house. On nearing New York they iir tided to hold a sorb of convention,: to dli-;-, cuss how the thirty-four husbands should/;' bo treated when they got homo. Mrs..,'.', Ellwood Collas, a New York beauty, witJs pronounced views of her own, took tie, v lead. Her scheme was novel but &« carried the other thirty-three with far completely. : > v.]'. " Suppose we form an anti-nagging club',' she said, and many of the newly, wedded ones fell in at once with the idea.:" , "How delightful," they said in concert;. "We shan't nag, shall we?" '$£?$ "I'll toll you what I think," Mrs. Gollu, continued. " Every • wife should he ;■&bo»|s of her own house. Then, of course, she v should receive her husband's pay or a good "- part of it, and she should keep book!, v' too. ;, ■■■'■. -. • • ''. i /', "In that way she can tell just how the. money is spent, and by her books she-dO';' ! ; show what it all went for, you see." Many of the brides "saw" !\nd all jjlji's plauded. They had visions of riic|ia&S| finances to the queen's taste. ' - };.'"|t,fAS Queen ol the Bridies.'- •' : I ' Mrs. Collas had been elected Queen of . the Brides for the voyage. • . ■/'"'{{) "I think," she continued. " that every' wife should look neat in the mornings, -W '.'■;: that her husband can carry that iae»with him all day down town. He neat, too, of course. , .*#S>< " Then give him a night off once a week He can <go out with his men friends-and. he'll enjoy bringing them home, t00..*- It's" the only way to run things properly. 'Xwtftmight even mske the home a kind ;of s'. club occ^^^fe- i y * or y°ur husband'* Mr 3d^^^^^». she thought every wire", c ' : **' -'Thoall began study*: t delay. ~ -'\ ■ The broke up. ; '■•':.?,'s• A few of thll|p§bandß, interviewed : -Mi!;to. the life in srare for them, gave forth' ;' equally decided views. "No, I have M objection to my wife keeping books," said one. . "flbo can spend all the day totting; up ; figure: and drawing up balance' Sheet* when I'm gone- to the office—so long,■■'_ as the dinner in well cooked when I get home at night. But one thing that doesn't; i suit me the least bit is the idea of thfi . night off a week. '- ' ■ "But, really, you know," lie continued. :,. "there's nothing in it. This kind of' thing's all right to while' away tie'tiroo;,* \ during a long voyage, but it doesn't ] «**- 1 '" out at all when you reach land." i ' \ Another husband of two-and-twem?, somirjers was delighted to hear that hi*; ; wife had token the anti-nagging pledge,; but saw trouble in the little matter of tfej.■';.;. boss. "But I expect it will he *jo 2 * ' ,ir," ho ruefully admitted. ' , , „ >>;' |ti! ==- -'■-'■