WIVES’ LONELY NIGHTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21255, 9 February 1931, Page 10

WIVES’ LONELY NIGHTS.

WHILE HUSBANDS ARE AT WORK CLUB TO END BOREDOM. The loneliest women in Britain arc the wives of the thousands of men whose jobs compel them to sleep during the daytime and work all night. A scheme is afoot (the Sunday Chronicle states) to form a league of these lonely wives in the’hope that their boredom may be lessened in each other’s society. _ .. . • In thousands of homes all over Britain there are women whose husbands go to their duties just at the time when dayworkers are either going home for an evening by the fireside or are ringing up their wives to say they have got tickets for the theatre or a kinema .... These wives do not see their husbands until next morning, when they arrive home, tired out, and tumble into bed at a time when the ordinary work-a-day world is iust stirriii° p . These women include tlie wives of post office workers newspaper workers, policemen, and workers ot all descriptions whose jobs keep them out all 111 Tim idea of a league is that of Mrs George Wells, who herself is a lonely wife her husband being engaged on a night engineering stall'. “I intend to call it‘The Lonely Wives League, she says. «I have got the names of a large number of women who are interested, and we intend to call a meeting very soon to put the scheme on a business-like footing. Uur idea is eventually to get possession of premises which we can use as club rooms for the benefit of members. It is intended to form a haven for lonely wives while their husbands are away at nights. There will be reading rooms, musical evenings, whist drives and bi idge. And no men will be admitted. “I feel sure that the scheme will be taken up enthusiastically,” Mrs Wells said. “ Nobody knows how lonely we women are whose husbands are away all night sis nights a week.” /