SPOIL WIVES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17126, 5 December 1929, Page 10

SPOIL WIVES

AMERICANS AS HUSBANDS SYDNEY GIRL SUMS UP JAIN DON, Nov. 22. American husbands spoil their wives, which is mi good for them, and very good for the wives. Spaniards and Frenchmen are not perfect, lovers—they are all on flic surface. Ouderneatli, tliev are thoroughly selfish and unfaithful. Australians are the finest men, with hearts ol gold. Thus .Mrs. Allen Dur--1 ei'iy, the iormer Sydney girl, who has just married, in London, the 29-year-old director of the linn of Burberry. the tanious waterproof overcoat makers, stuns up her stews on men and marriage. "Every girl more or less looks out tor the ideal man, perhaps subconsciously, hut with the same natural instincts and the same desire,” Mrs. Burberry told a reporter. .'-lie was formerly Miss Nell Barker, one of tlie lovely blonde, brown-eyed daughters of Mr. 11. Y. Barker, the retired Coogee footwear merchant. She said that she had been thrice round the world, not looking lor a Imsnaiid, hut with a woman’s natural interest in men. "i was studying art in Paris when I met. my husband, ’ she said. "I first saw him in Bucharest- three months ago. ‘‘There are plenty of ideal men in Australia, and no girl need look further for a husband. "1 was inclined to believe there were no ideal men, hut Allen is near enough for me. He is a. great sportsman, and a perfect gentleman. He lias ; Leen more on the Continent and abroad than in England, unlike the typical Englishman, who is very often a very fine man, but lucking- in the frank, boyish, qualities, which Australian women like. He is more Continental in his outlook than English. ‘ i find most men perfectly charming. ‘ Australians arc ttie finest men, with hearts of gold, but they do not sometimes possess the little qualities that count so much with women.” Mrs. Burberry will leave for Australia in the Otranto, on January 4, alone, to visit her parents. She will return to London, to live there permanently. mnmmm.mmsmfmm.