Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-08-22 | Page 19 | Ruth Millett Says - 'Righteous Rut' Wives Don't See other Side

Ruth Millett Says Says- Says Sa Righteous Rut Wives Dont Don't See Other Side It is easy for a woman to get into a Righteous Rut The woman who is in a Righteous Rut expects her husband husband husband hus- hus hus hus- band to feel Seel eternally lucky and grateful because she is a afine afine aline fine line housekeeper and a conscientious mother f r She makes friends only with women 11 pretty much like herself deciding smugly f 1 that anyone who doesn't think as she thinks t or act as she acts my sort She doesn't say Perhaps there is another another another an an- other side to the story She condemns without without with with- out investigation She laughs at anyone whose ideas or way of ot living she cant can't understand She not only doesn't take any part in any anyS S activities outside her home she belittles the woman who docs does She thinks and says that the woman who keeps pace with her husbands husband's advancement Ruth Millett in jn the e way she runs her home and in her interests is putting on airs She thinks because she has grown complacently middle middle- aged th that t another woman of her years who manages to look 10 years younger is plain silly and not fooling any any- body She reminds her husband what a good wife she is ismore ismore ismore more often than she reminds him that he is a wonderful husband The reminds her children of ot all that she has done for lor them She is convinced that she is right and her husband is wrong on any subject within the womans woman's sphere She puts it this way What does a man know about running a house Unless she stops patting herself on the back long enough to see that she is in a Righteous Rut shell Rut shell she'll stay there the rest of her life life and and miss a lot of ot rear real living