HOW TO SELECT A WIFE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 47, 19 October 1912, Page 6

HOW TO SELECT A WIFE.

METHODS OF CAVE-DWELLERS.’ Considerable discussion and amusement have been arppsed in New York’ by the* • publioatton 7 s of * an*" iUtorview 1 with Dr. William Waugh, one of the' foremost neurologists in the country, and chief physician of Jefferson Hospital, Chicago, in which he declared woman nowadays still adores “The Cave Man,” who, as it were, knocks his'chosen mate oven the head with a hatchet, and drags her off to his cave. Dr. Waugh saygt the most*successfully ‘married men of to-day hark back to primitive conditions and impulses. To live happily though married Dr. Waugh lays down, the following rules Tor men:— When you find a mate, take her; she wants it. When you have her, live for her; she wants that. When she arouses her jealousy, beat her; she needs it. If she betrays you, kill her; she deserves it.

Modern men and women, continued the learned doctor, are becoming more and more coated with the varnish of civilisation, but underneath it they are identical with the cave man and woman—unchanged at heart. “The simple maxims that ruled the cave-dwellers govern humanity today,” Dr. Waugh asserts. ‘Every woman sits and waits the coming of her lord. She is ready to follow when he beckons. He is masterful. He woes not, beseeches nob, implores not, serves not; ho takes his own when he finds it. Ho commands, knowing that he will be obeyed, and that is the sign for which sho waits. There is never man or brute so brutal, but woman clings to him, and the bigger the brute the more this instinct shows itself among women, who flock to decorate a murderer’s cell with evidences of their appreciation. It is not silliness, not maudlin, but primitive instinct showing through the veneer.” “On the other hand,” says Dr. Waugh, “should the man pusillanimously woep and surrender the headship, the wife feels nothing for him but contempt and repulsion, and he becomes a slave.” Dr. Waugh’s opinion is viewed by women as ridiculous, and indignant protest, chiefly from advocates of woman’s suffrage, is being heard on all «ndcs.