AMERICAN HUSBANDS

Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17803, 31 January 1930, Page 8

AMERICAN HUSBANDS

SPOIL THEIR WIVES. SYDNEY GIRD SUMS UP: ; AUSSTRALIANS THE FINEST I MEN. .i I ■ .•■'■'.'''■. j ■';;. : . . • ■ I American husbands spoil their wives, which is no good for them, and y£ry good for the wives. .Spaniards and Frenchmen are not perfect lovers; they're all on the surface. Underneath, they ars thoroughly selfish and \unfaithful. Aus-: tralians are the finest men, with hearts of gold: Thus Mrs Allen Burberry, the former Sydney girl, who has just married in London the 29-year-old director of the firm of Burberry, the famous waterproof overcoat makers, sums up her views on men and marriage.

"Every girl more or less looks out for the ideal man, perhaps subconsciously, but with the same natural instincts and the same desire," said Mrs Burberrv to a reporter. She. was formerly Miss Neil Barker, one of the lovely; blonde, brown-eyed daughters of,Mr H. V. Barker,' the retired Coogee footwear merchant.

(She said she had been thriee round the world, not looking for a hus'band, but 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 threemonths ago. "There are plenty of ideal men ift 1 Australia and no girl need look further for a husband. "I was inclined to believe there were no ideal men, but Allen is near enough for me. He is a great sportsman and a perfect gentlemanHe has been more on the Continent and abroad than in England, unlike the typical- Englishman, who is very often a very fine man, but lacking: in the frank, boyish qualities which Australian women like. He is< moreContinental in his outlook than English. "I find most men perfectly charming. ! "Australians are the finest men r ! with hearts of gold, but they do not sometimes possess the little qualities that count so much with women." i Mrs Burberry left for Australia? in the Otranto on January 4 alone| to visit her parents. She will return tp London to live there permanently. .