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Show ' Love Is Only Law Needed . To Make Man Boss of Home By HELEN WELSHIMER ' What lovers those Frenchmen are, American women have prattled prat-tled for years. How beautifully they kiss one' hand! What sweet I and fragrant nothings they murmur in one's ear. Oh, yes? Wait till you marry one of them and get the law on you! I Withall, It seems they aren't able' ito establish themselves as the I kings in their own homes. They had to get tha French senate to pass a law making the husband the official head of his family. That gives them authority to choose the place where the family shall abide, to make a woman (the plague take her if ah interferes) go along under un-der threat of losing financial support sup-port Protection Waa Need of Frontier Long ago men braved the wilderness wilder-ness while women cooked th buffalo buf-falo meat and fish that he obtained while he braved It Therefore, he was an automatic protector. Being strong, he waa the ruler. A certain because a group of black robed senators sen-ators said he should. Legal protection pro-tection la a mark of weakness a mark of that very weakness which the Frenchmen tried to abolish. Mayo Frenchmen went to law for help because they couldn't get justice alone. If a man Is earning the housekeeping money, and one address makes obtaining a livelihood liveli-hood easier for him than another, he should be permitted that decision. deci-sion. A wife who doesn't agree with him without benefit of court needs to be legally blocked. In such Instances, we render our agreement to th senators in France. typa of man hasn't forgotten. His wife may support the family on her weekly pay check, cook breakfast before she goes to work, run home to prepare lunch, cook dinner and spend th evening mending, baking, bak-ing, scrubbing and pressing his trousers, but he wants her to know he's the head of the house. Custom and usage demand it. Long live the king! i Such a man, by the nature of his haircut and his clothes, likes to ' feel that he is the lord in a minor kingdom. His wife may b the power behind th throne, but he wants to ait on it. He may lean on her strength and thank th fates for Its redundancy, as Moses leaned on a rod In th wilderness, but she is his subject Better to hava th seven afflictions afflic-tions of th Children of Israel com upon on than to marry with such a son of th lata Adam. Fortunately For-tunately women have been able to : explain the situation to most of J these men, so they ar compelled I to conform to a pattern that gives a little mora liberty. I Th very need of th passage of a law such as th French senators put into effect shows that men and : women have failed, too often, to realise th significance of marriage. mar-riage. If it U a companionable partnership where two people share each other's adversities, ther is no need for legislation. Two peo-pl peo-pl who love each other will come to a mutual understanding as to whether they shall live on Market avenue south or East Tenth street. When th law say that th husband hus-band may choose th letterheads it puts women on th defensive. Appeal to Law I Weakness' A woman who sincerely loves her husband wants him to be the recognized head of th family. She wants him to be a' tower of strength on which she can lean. Just as aha desires to help him at those times when he comes beaten and weary from battle and needs her sympathy and tenderness. No normal woman wants to b the legal bead of a family which include in-clude th man she loves. She want the man to yule or pretend to. for she may shar his decisions because aha voted for hinv not |