IDEALIST HUSBANDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18553, 10 November 1923, Page 6 (Supplement)

IDEALIST HUSBANDS.

: The idealist husband has above all things imagination, the essential of discernment , and. sympathy. Men are . • tenderminded or tough-minded. The idealist husband belongs to the first order (asserts a writer in an exchange). His chief defect from the practically minded woman s \ standpoint is his deficient interest in the dull but important affairs of everyday life. He vill forget to post his wife's letter* and to leave messages with the grocer. Idealists are apt to be elated one day.and depressed the next. For that reason the idealist partner may be regarded, by bis wife as undefendable." But in one very importsmt soma he is dependable. His partner knows that he 'tries to understand the woman's point of view. Seeking instinctively the highest, the finest, and the most admirable virtues in men and women, the idealist husband is often disappointed with reality, though he may have the capacity for discovering noble qualities in despised or misunderstood persons. This power of imaginative sympathy causes the idealist to > magnify the merits of a quite commonplace .or selfish wife.

The idealist husband provides his mate with emotional experiences that the more stable-minded man cannot yield. It is the law of nature that women are more emo tional than men. lam not forgetting the satisfaction of a becoming and well-fitting gown and'the solace of fa charming room But these things alone. do not „ appease our heart needs. . .

The idealist is in many instances some- ! what indifferent to material matters. He is a dreamer, and sometimes > a creator, and such men are frequently incapable of competing with practical brains in the winning of money. But he has another talisman of happiness. He-can invest the humblest home with the .glamour or romance. He can find in his wife the physical charms, the superlative character traits, and the graces that she fails to discern in herself. " Emotional starvation is the bane of ; many wives. It is not only the fate of ; the spinster. Life, married or single, tends too frequently for women to become humdrum and commonplace. .Fervour, admiration, sympathy, and understanding are more than jewels. They are priceless and comparatively rare, and they art only attained through idealism; "''"-'