Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-08-02 | Page 6 | Ruth Millett

Ruth Rut Millett i et t These Men Have Found The Answer Theres There's one way in which wives have always held a whip hand handover handover handover over their husbands If things went wrong a wife could always threaten and if necessary carry carryout carryout carryout out the old Y 1 challenge chall e en n g e I r- r Y s 's 1 dont don't have to put up with 0 your nasty disposition disposition dis dis- l position I can cango cango j go home to tomother B mother u Occasionally a husband a also 1 s would go back to the parental f roof when the marital going got tough but it was too sissy a retreat to ap appeal appeal ap ap- peal to most Ruth Millett men So the men having no place to go had to be content with announcing Im going for a walk or Im going t to the club and slamming the front front- door behind them Well the worm has turned At least the Washington worm worm has turned The men there have decided that they will have have some place to go go-a go a nice masculine masculine mas mas- culine place which when used as a threat will scare their wives and when the threat has hasto hasto hasto to be made good will give them thema a pleasant retreat with agreeable agreeable agree agree- able male companions thrown in In short a group of men in Washington Washington and and their ranks are swelling fast has fast has formed a club called The Run Out Husbands' Husbands club Any members who run out outon outon outon on their wives can count on on other members memberS' for sympathy and companionship and help in finding a temporary substitute home There isn't a clubhouse yet but that's in the plans for the future and when they have that they'll be even with their wives who have mothers waiting to take them in It looks like the kind of idea that might catch on fast So ladies if you would rather not see a Run Out Husbands' Husbands club in your own town towns there are just two things to do