THE GRUMBLER SILENCED

New Zealand Tablet, 19 October 1911, Page 2109

THE GRUMBLER SILENCED

An American millionaire had an only daughter who was married. The father was weary of the complaints of his son-in-law in regard to the shortcomings, of his wife. According to the young man, she was extravagant, ill-tempered, untidy, and, in fact, everything which a wife should not be. The father-in-law was determined to put a stop to the complaints, but he proceeded in a most diplomatic manner. ‘Now,’ said he to his son-in-law, you tell Marie from me that if I hear another word of complaint against her I will disinherit her.’ This, at all events, is what we read in an American contemporary, and we can quite understand that hereafter the young lady became a model wife.