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Show Tab the Summer Bachelor j I" T P and clown the length and U lrL-.i-.!:h of the l.md thi; ! summer a nuv soL'io!o:c.:l t-n;i:v ! will rtn.n. liioloic.illv he IrIon';s I to the animal kingdom, to the vertebrate pliylum, to the homo sn:,:,-ns class. .'Jure popularly lie I will be known pimply as the sum- I mer bachelor. Lett on his own in the boat of town, while his wifs and children are vacr.'.ioninp; at the Miore or in the mountains, he is faced with several problems, of which "some other girl" is not the least. If summer makes you temporarily temporar-ily husbandless and perhaps permanently per-manently so when fall comes 1 Gretta Palmer around, what Gretta Palmer has to say in the July issue of Good Housekeeping will be of vital interest. in-terest. Symbolically, there are two attitudes of which she speaks, the right and the wrong. The latter is usually adopted by the headstrong type who believes in a "marital vacation" va-cation" and frankly says so. She thinks that because her husband can sit up and play poker and drink beer till the morning's wee hours, he's "having a marvelous time." It's her opinion, too, that her husband hus-band should be thrifty, faithful and willing to overlook the tortures of keeping house for himself. Bui ; this woman is wrong, Miss Palmei -says. She forgets that the rnntroo - between summer loneliness anc winter domesticity is marked anc that this leads inevitably to th point where, out of sheer desperation, despera-tion, he will seek the company oi a pleasant, pretty girl. On the other hand, it is the thoughtful wife who keeps hei marriage intact in spite of the summer. She leaves only becauss she feels her children need to get away. But since she must go, she makes the necessary preparations. the has her friends invite her hus. hand to dinner once or twice a week. She has the library send him, 1 regularly, a book of his preferred type. She makes sure that the cleaning woman she has hired is thorough and efficient. And, Miss Palmer concludes,' frequent letters sympathizing with her husband's plight are very comforting. |