Salmon-Loving Husbands

NZ Truth, Issue 998, 10 January 1925, Page 1

Salmon-Loving Husbands

Who Help m the Washing. Replying , to "Keep 'Em In Their Place," who wrote on the duty of wives to obey (etc., etc.), a Wanganiii lady writes: .' "I call myself a womanly woman ana ■I kiiow heaps more besides. We wouldn't have a man who insisted on the word 'obey,' and we think and know we are his equal. He lets us think so too, but we don't leave his

home and go to dances unaccompanied, and we don't drink cocktails. ' "Our husbands are so satisfied with their home lives they do not wish to enter pubs or clubs, and they often' get a tin of salmon for their grub on a busy day. We like a little gossip among ourselves, and we like a lazy half- hour now and again. We like to make ourselves look as young ks we can, or, as you say, we 'o"a bit of 'flappering'; and sometimes our cooking is bad; but would our hubbies part with us? Never! We are hubby's equal and he knows it and calls us 'Pals. 1 Divorce Court! Such a thing could never come to pass m ; a 'marriage such as ours. "Nevertheless, t wish you luck m your venture with the woman who may get m first, but she has nay sympathy if she doesn't know of. the man who thinks it fun to stay home with his wife on his half- day and help her with the washing. "You, too, Mr. "Keep 'Em In Their Place' have my sympathy if you don't kjnow of ' the woman who can make the man dp this. Therein lies her charm — if. she manages this yet still has a man who is a fayorite and popular with his men friends.' 1