WIVES AND HUSBANDS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18827, 30 September 1924, Page 11

WIVES AND HUSBANDS.

■ - Cockney wife is a byword . the world V over' The following pearls of wisdom ?£ have dropped from London women of tho working classes who have had business i of one sort or another in the Law Courts: "The greatest problem of a woman s married life is to get her husband .-to. . act tho part of tho great being she' tolls him he is. ■;' ■-> A wife is not compelled to obey her husband, but she is wise ; to appear to ;!.'•■:' do so. " '■ r : :'.>> Husbands may bo selfish, but I would rather be kept .by one than be kept out ■•'■ of one. ";••'■ „- After all, a husband is only an over- - grown baby in tho hands of a . capable : : woman; . ■ . There is no finer argument to convince .a man about what things cost than, to y make him go marketing himself. ■. ;; _ , -■•. The man who does not think of himself ' first, last, and all the time has yet to bo bora. ' . , . , A husband '■ will say, "Don t you looknice, dear?" with a new hat on, but see how he shivers when ho views tho bill! ■ There is a golden rule for tho caro Of husbands who stay out late. Pretend that you did not know he was out, and - he will stay at home to know why ho was V not missed.; A woman can obtain with a few tears - more than she can by hours of argument. •-' •Do I work for my living? Yes, with • nd trade union hours— married. If women would cut the sentiment out B. of their' marrjago and remember it,... 15 simply 'a business bargain, they would be '■;.' fir happier. If every. woman had her rights there would not be much to go round for the men. ■■'- ,'. -, :■-,.-,.■ ■ '.- ____