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Show wn remained a bachelor twenty years beaus bis friend married Iloftte. When she hwame a widow he decorously waited a ear. only to learn lhat she had accepted th doctor. Hit me t inie lalf r. whin hr se-o?:d husband died, he aa,ati deferred de-ferred proposing. When h did h learned that she had acrrpted th undertaker on the day of the funeral. fu-neral. We know a wife who was so weary of s Flow husband that sh rhoiie for number two a I. lev tile rider rid-er who won the ra'e In Madison Square Garden. o How to Understand . Your Husband Coprrlxht, mi. (N Trk Uvfnlag World) rrras Publishing fo. WHKN HK'I IXKFrKIEXT AM) SLOW. "Believe me, I'd like to tie up to: one of those Human Dynnmoi," re-; marked Genevieve, referring to our recent description of a Hunting Husband. "They may be wearing vn the nerveahut you feel aa If they I were UETTINO SQMBWfiKRK! My! Hrggle would lose out In a race with 1 a snail, and his movements are not j visible to th naked eye. t feel as If I were pushlsg-an elephant up-atalrs up-atalrs an Inch at a time!" "Yea; can you bent It? I have a sister who promised to obey one of those owls. Naturally, she Is a bit apeerfy and aggressive. Well, a tradition tra-dition eaya that men ought to take I the lead, and ao ahe trlea to act as if he had eome Initiative and waa planning t hinge. Hut It nearly drlvea her Insane to alt tight and be the power behind the throne when the monarch la a dummy!" Thus spoke two from the ranks of Wedded Women. Some husbands are born Inefficient. Ineffi-cient. If they trv o sharpen a pencil pen-cil or open a can. they bungle It. They never atcwy a streetcar till It has gone a block or two beyond the Kropt-r corner- several Muck, if It i raining. We know a bride who was so disillusioned dis-illusioned she almost wept wh'n her l new lorn una master got the railroad rail-road tickets wron:, failed to nave proper n-survatlona .it the hotel and made a fiasco with the baggage. If she had discovered a love letter let-ter la hia pocket, her relatives would have pitlmi her and upbraided htm for a scoundrel, but hrm "trivial" faults did not impress them ss vital until they had to live in the same house with him! One sister snld she had seen him take the rest cure so long that she went to the circus to wimeaa quick movt menta, and ahe contemplated marrying a bareback rider. It amy he exhausting to be tied to a husband who Ik a Hvman Iytiamo. bent on doing the Dance of Death, hut It Is more Irrksttng to have to use a mlscroscope to see If your spouse hai moved since you last looked at him. Generally speaking, the Inefficient man is a poor man. and while wife Is hustling eighteen hours a day to make the expenditures come within speaking distance of the Income, In-come, It in maddening to have he breadwinner lie down on the job! j And, crowning Insult, such a man often excuses his lnfectusl arts bv declaring that he ii amiable! He cannot bear to fight, and so he Is content to paas he buck! Not liking lik-ing to argue with tradesmen over exorbitant charges, or incorrect bills, he lets (Icorgette do It! Naturally, If she has to be the fighter, ahe la regarded as dlsagree-sble dlsagree-sble snd pugnsclotm. "Deliver us." say oiv aiders, "from i contentious and managing woman!' Home folk who are naturally slow Insist that tt Is be can ite they are thorough. Of courae. If they are laboring la-boring on something with n. Infinite detail, or have a scientific mind that nereaaltates very searching Investigation In-vestigation before they ran art or achieve, thla may be true. But a ( man who never doea anything I qulekly, even make up his mind, la I exasperating peyond endurance. Kven tn wooing, he Is dead slow ant usually tones a girl to some rapid worker. One la reminded of the man ' |