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Show Doctor Urges Day Off for Wives To Cut Heart-Damaging Tension at homecoming time, you're making mak-ing a real contribution." The article is titled, "How Can I Help My Husband Avoid a Heart Attack?" Coronary heart disease, often associated with tension, kills one of every four men over 35, and also is increasing among women. To make life longer and easier for both sexes, a heart specialist urges women "to take off one day a week, away from the children, chil-dren, away from the house." This is part of the advice Dr. Herman Sobol, attending cardiologist cardi-ologist at the Heart Institute of Presbyterian Hospital, Newark, N.J., gives Jean Libman Block in an interview in the September Septem-ber Reader's Digest. The day-off program, he says, will not only make a woman feel better, but her husband probably will benefit, bene-fit, too: "when you have a nervous, ner-vous, tense woman, the man who comes home to her becomes nervous ner-vous and tense, too." Dr. Sobol urges wives to take some of the pressure off their husbands bv cutting out the "five o'clock frenzy" and giving the man a little rest before dinner. din-ner. "When a man comes home from work, he needs a little comfort, com-fort, peace and understanding. Too often he gets the opposite. His wife has been saving up her irritations all day to throw at him. If the children are small, they're hungry and squabbling. If they're older, they often pounce with some grievance or demand. "A wife should rearrange her schedule, perhaps feed the young children earlier. She can make a deal with the older ones to save problems until after dinner. din-ner. Then she'll be able to sit down quietly with her husband for a few minutes, have a drink with him, if that's their habit, give him a chance to recover from the day. If you can introduce intro-duce an element of restfulness |