NOTES FOR WOMEN.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19969, 10 December 1926, Page 19

NOTES FOR WOMEN.

By Phii.lida. (Continued fx - om page 18.) MARRIED TABLE TALK. What do you talk to your husband about at vour evening meal and when you and he ai'o alone? (asks a London writer). Perhaps you have never asked yourself. Probably if conversation between you and him trips easily along without any feeling of effort, there is no need for you to think about it. It is all so spontaneous and un-solf-consciou* that it is more like thinking aloud when you are together than actual talking. And. of course, if vou are still in the stage of “when did you first know you cared for me'/ 1 ' vour difficulty will be to find time for all the wonderful things you want to say and hear. But sometimes as the years roll on n wife docs become vaguely conscious of halts rather drear\ and heavy halts, in the conversation, and begins to worry as to what U the cause. I thin! d • f f c*n happens because the (interest d' hu-baml and wife run on different lin-v., „ In life early days they want to talk of* each other, their hopes and their pr snoots, but that will not fill a man’s mind for all his life. A woman, as the davs g f on tends to become tremendously' centred on her home. f-ne thinks in terms of household expenses, children and neighbours. A man s outlook is wider, far wider; he has his work, his politics and his sport. The result is that the woman is apt to talk only of the things which fill her mind. .The husband is perfectly rendv and glad to a certain amount of his time and attention to domestic side of life, but he does get bored if he never boars any other discussed at homo except bills and babies. The wife often forgets that her husband bigger interests than she has. The solution of her problem is two-fold. Rhe must cultivate an intelligent understanding of her husband’s pursuits. The other solution will arouse r. good deal of protest in the hearts of some women. It is the presence of a newspaper aniece at the evening meal. Of course, there a kind of idea that a husband and wife to talk But why should tbev. unless there is anything they want to say? Newspapers will not prevent conversation if either wants to talk: hut npwsnnnora will prevent that awful silence, broken only by the agonised crunching of crusts.