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Show To Keep Husband Happy Never' Talk About His Business , i Mrs. atsniay Baldwin arW bar 'iHiaband, Brlttah pramlar.- . By MILTON IHONNin, ' NKA atrv laa- ataff Csrrasswnsteni, LONDON, July II. If you want to ksap your husband happy, refrain from saking htm about his business. Taks this as a tip from Mrs. Stan lay Baldwin, wife of tha man who probably has the biggest job In Europe. Eu-rope. As British premier ba la con-eamed con-eamed not only with the perplexing problem a of his own nation, but the leading affaire of tha whola world. He know a tha Inner moat secrets of diplomatic alluatlona upon which tha deailniea of mllllona may hinge. Tat when ba alts down by the fire-arid fire-arid e sfter a hard day a work, hla wife, no matter how curloua shs may ba, never tries to probe tha see rata that ara bia. "I think it a great mlatake on the part of wife. r Mrs. Baldwin told me. ta atari talking to her fauaband about hla a f fa Ira the moment ha enters en-ters tha houaa. If ba wants to talk, well and good. "But aa a gansra rnls, " what a man neede mors than anything alee ta to ba taken out of his workaday worVd ba It ditches or diploma do elrclaa and be able to put aside tha cares that weigh on him. "It is tba greatest mistake of atart-tal atart-tal life to try to bring the hue band back to big buetneee and profeaaionai wor rlea. Home ahould be a. rafuge from theee care.' But although Mrs. Baldwin never fore a political talk upon her hua-band, hua-band, he kaa great faith tft her Judgment Judg-ment and frequently consults her Ta regard to mattara affecting hla political polit-ical life. When he haaitstad about broking wltb Lloyd Ueorge aver tha Qupvetlon of protection. It was hla wlf wh finally decided hlra. and that decision turned tho ocals against the Lioyd Gsorgs ad minuit ration, "But tha ftrat qualification for tba premier's wife," saya Mrs. Baldwin, Is that aha ahould not be too much sf a politician. Tha prima mlniater Is something mora than a party leader. Ha, next to the king. Is ths head of ths nation, and as host aaa ate wife muat be ready to receive people of all aha dee of opinion. "whan a woman la a politician shs is generally more partisan than ! a man. U would, therefore, be nest to Impossible for a keen woman poll- i tlclan to be succaaaful ao a premier's wife. That'e why I'm glad I am aot a keen politician. Of courss. I bsva followed politics during my husband's hus-band's campaigns, but I n mora at boms la ths domaatlo aphers. Whan la her husband happiest? "Whan ha Is by the nree.de." e-a Mrs. Baldwin, Srlth hla favorite pipe and a book, or surrounded by his family. am sura that wars ha left ta a free choice ha would prefer the quiet comfort of doeneatls Ufa to anything slaa. i - "When unduly apprsased ' by tha eares of bis office as alwaya assks oonsoiatlon In music. His tastes are almpla. Ha llkea tks plain old English En-glish ballads of ths oountryatds beat." But when they do have a potutcal discussion there lb rarely any sooord I In ths Baldwin family, for the pre-mler'a pre-mler'a aon. Oliver, la a Socialist of ths school of Chsriee Kin gala y and Ruakin. Only his abhorrence of the aseocietlon with boiehevlk Ruaata preaen t a him openly from spousi ng the cause of the Labor party hie fat her' a opposition. "It la not often ens find a father and son taking such divergent views," says Mrs Baldwin, "but K adHa to tha intareat of Ufa. |