HOW WOMEN SPOIL MEN

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6439, 17 January 1924, Page 7

HOW WOMEN SPOIL MEN

Take a perfectly nice boy, marry him to the “dearest girl in the world,” let her wait on him hand and foot, study his every whim and fancy, and in a very short time you . will have a thoroughly spoilt and „ thoroughly selfish young man. Many women make the mistake of beginning their married life as they do not intend to go on. At the outset the young wife is so feverishly anxious to show “hubby” that she is immeasurably superior to his sisters, his cousins and his aunts —and quite the equal of his mother —that she proceeds to pay him all those little attentions which are so dear to his heart—and so bad for him.

That men are only children is a truism, but that they are just as easily spoilt as the small folk is often • overlooked. From at first appreciating the loving service at its true value and realising it is much more than his due, the husband comes gradually to look for it and then expects it as his right, and finally, on that inevitable day when his slippers have not been • put to warm, or his coat is not well brushed, he turns round and grumbles.

When this happens, the wife wakens up to the fact that she is rapidly drifting into more or less —generally more—of a body-slave, and she rebels. And that’s where the trouble begins. '