Show HELPFUL HUSBAND LARGELY A MYTH little gained by letting lettin 9 him tinker men are supposed to be handy with the hammer and good at doing odd jobs jobb round the house but from what I 1 hear bear from women who have them huab husbands ands I 1 mean not hammers lva its a tradition lael lacking drig in truth if a trusting wife asks achs her ber spouse to repair a chair leg or an electrical fixture it cannot be done until a suitable kit of expensive tools to Is bought when the tools arrive he does not know how to use them in the end the wife has to hire a workman anil and instead of saving money out the tha price of the tools one wife decided it was ridiculous to t pay a carpenter to hang the porch swing owing when bed husband and grown son were able boded and reasonably intelligent the twain were willing to lend both brains and brawn and started operations by tapping the porch root roof to locate the joist the sound told nothing to their untrained ears so they bored eight experimental holes without ever touching the secretive beam eventually the lady of the house sent for a carpenter who filled up the eight holes and hong bung the swing one summer this same father and son tried to save the family budget by building a coal bin in the basement in which to hoard board coal bought at low prices their fancy carpenter work loosened the brick foundation so that the cellar leaked all winter and in the spring a brick mason repaired the damages at considerable expense then theres the woman who hated to spend 10 for an outside aerial for her ber new radio she insisted that her husband could save money by building one accordingly lie he bought the necessary material lie ile crawled under the edge of the house to ground the wire properly and as he was a hefty brute he got stuck under the foundation and pulled a floyd col iiii sympathetic neighbors dug due him out and lie he went to bed to nurse his bruises while it a hireling built the aerial instead of saying saving money he paid a doctors bill the most interesting trait these helpless husbands show allow Is their willingness to spend hours in inventing Invent ln a way to escape the work their wives assign to them this tendency hns has led to most of our important household inventions of course it was a man who first thought of washing ironing sweeping and beating eggs egg s by electrical power probably hi his s wife asked him to help her one da day Y when she was sick As AB often as not n 0 t ills inventive powers lead him to grief instead of success as in the instance of the man too lazy to t 0 carry out his hh cifes garbage pall she kept the garbage in the rear by the garage door and asked him to put it on the curb each monday morning therefore when he backed the car out he would place the garbage can on the running board and stop at the curb long enough to park the can thus saving at least a hundred feet of unnecessary can carrying one morning he forgot to remove the garbage can from the running board and never neer gave gae it a thought until hp he made a quick stop at a prominent traffic Intersect intersection lon there was d A fearful clatter on the left of the car and lie he looked out in time to see his breakfast grapefruit peels rolling beneath a lossy flossy limousine not to mention coffee grounds and potato parings strewn till all over the scenery tills this husband insists that he never recovered reco ered from the resultant infera arity complex comp leK and his file wife lost her garbage can which lie he possibly stop to collect the fond father who spent 2 for a bomb to amuse his children on an the fourth of july meant well when he put it on top of the grape arbor before lie he lit it ills idea was to remove it as far as possible from the bodies of its his young hopefuls it fell off and exploded in his cifes favorite lower flower bed uprooting alie pride of her life and undoing months of hard labor there are some women who can do more with a hairpin than the men of the family can accomplish with the most useful tools the vaunted superiority of the male in all mechanical matters often falls flat when he Is asked to tinker sometimes its safer to leave the head of the house behind the newspaper and hire outsiders to take care of 0 repairs its cheaper in the long run to pay one bill instead of several indianapolis news |